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Like a scabby-ish-looking kind of growth over your face.

Looks like it was black quills or black toothpicks sticking out all around his mouth.

Susan Mansfield said she saw a different bunny with tentacles in her yard in recent years.

He had the same black stuff on him, and I thought he would die off during the winter, but he didn't.

He came back a second year, and it grew.

Some feel bad for our tiny neighbors if

Colorado Parks and Wildlife confirms this is a virus that's not contagious to

other animals like people's dogs but they say leave this wildlife alone like you

would with any of the neighborhood bunnies it's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature, part ape, part man.

In Larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. The Monster Talk.

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters.

I'm Blake Smith.

And I'm Karen Stoltsner.

Jackalopes are one of those monsters we've been meaning to cover for pretty much the entire

run of Monster Talk. Somehow, we never got to them until now. Well, they're back in the news,

and there's a lot of confusion between the made-up jackalope, and it's very real biological

analog. That's what we'll be talking about in this episode.

On the surface, jackalopes are pretty silly.

The taxidermity critter we all know today isn't really a mantra at all.

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