The cottontail rabbit papillomavirus, which alarmed some Colorado residents, cannot spread to other species and often goes away on its own, according to experts.

Rabbits with horn-like growths have appeared around Colorado, alarming residents. The "tentacles" are due to a virus that is generally harmless.

Wildlife officials in Colorado have confirmed a troubling rise in cases of shope papillomavirus, a rare disease causing wild rabbits to grow tentacle-like growths from their heads and mouths. While the condition is not new to science,

Why has the National Guard been sent to Washington, DC, to combat a fake crime wave when America is facing a literal invasion of tentacled rabbits?

The grotesque “Frankenstein”-esque rabbits — once just a Colorado curiosity — are now turning up in Minnesota and Nebraska, their furry faces sprouting grotesque horn- and tentacle-like growths straight out of a B-movie.