Rabbits With Tentacle-Like Growth Around Head Reported in CO Neighborhood

2025 certainly has been an odd year for biology.

First, there were the radioactive wasp nests in South Carolina.

Next, China is experiencing a massive outbreak of mosquito-borne Chikungunya disease.  That’s on top of several of its “graduate students” being busted for bringing in biological samples illegally.

Now Colorado residents are reporting the appearance of wild cottontail rabbits with bizarre “horn-like” or “tentacle-like” black growths on their faces and mouths.

Residents in Fort Collins, Colorado recently noticed an unusual sight in their neighborhoods: rabbits with peculiar growths on their faces. Susan Mansfield, a resident in the area, described the appearance as “black quills or black toothpicks sticking out all around” the rabbits’ mouths, when speaking to reporters with KUSA...