Ticks are active in Fairfax County almost year round, including warm winter days. Lyme disease is still the best known and most common disease spread by ticks in Virginia, but there are others such as ...

Nature can be surprising, and sometimes a little unsettling, especially when animals behave in ways that seem hard for us to understand. One such example is self-cannibalism, highlighting a behaviour ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — While watching the Milan and Cortina Winter Olympics, have you noticed Olympians biting their medals at the podium? News10NBC’s Emily Putnam looked into the origins of this iconic ...

According to the Olympics website, photographers encourage Olympians to bite the medals since the photos often make the front page. “I think they look at it as an iconic shot, as something that you ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It's an image seen every time the Olympics roll around — athletes biting their newly earned medals. Do they want to literally taste victory? From Simone Biles and Michael Phelps to ...

To use the cliché saying, a picture speaks a 1,000 words. That's especially accurate each time the Olympic Games roll around, an event that holds significant meaning, pageantry and tradition for ...

This is a thing for every modern Olympics, for a long time: Whenever anyone wins a medal, whether it’s gold, silver or bronze, there are pictures of the winners biting the thing they just won.

Life is often compared to a huge ocean full of opportunities, challenges, and dangers. In this ocean, people are faced with dangers, rivals, or challenges, which are likened to “sharks.” The phrase ...

Few actions in nature inspire more fear and fascination than snake bites. And the venomous reptiles have to move fast to sink their fangs into their prey before their victim flinches, which may be as ...