Mindy Weisberger

A girl went to her dentist complaining of a toothache and swelling around her eye. It turned out the two problems were connected.

A man who hunted deer developed a very rare allergy that progressively worsened each time he ate red meat.

A woman and her partner had been trying to conceive for some time. It turned out that a rare allergy may have been hindering their attempts.

This big-eyed rainforest mammal looks like a cross between a bat and a squirrel. It glides between treetops using a furry membrane that connects its limbs.

This flightless nocturnal parrot is only found in New Zealand.

Doctors report an analysis of a woman's fatal aneurysm, pinpointing its likely causes after her death.

While on a fishing trip, a man sustained an unusual injury from a marlin.

A woman went to the emergency room after getting bits of a venomous spider in her eye.

A woman developed prominent bumps inside her sinuses, similar to a condition seen in "surfer's ear."

Open wide! The gaping gob of a pelican eel can expand into a voluminous sac for trapping elusive prey in the dark ocean depths.

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which helps them survive in oxygen-poor water in the deep ocean.

A woman developed awful headaches after a Pilates class, and their underlying cause was very unusual.

In an unusual case, a man's multiday bout of hiccups was triggered by a respiratory infection.

"Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it succumbs to the manipulations of its attacker, stumbling away from its home and family and then undergoing decapitation from the inside out."

A man went to the hospital several times with gut pain and a fever — and it turned out that his relatively common symptoms had an unusual cause.