We've all been there: reaching for the medicine cabinet with a splitting headache, opening the new pill bottle, and digging through a giant cotton ball to get to the capsules. Why are those cotton ...

Fear of cotton balls is also known as sidonglobophobia. Another term for the condition is bambakophobia, from the Greek bambaki, which means "cotton," and phobos, which means deep dread or fear.

They only grow about 1.5 to 1.9 inches long and have fluffy white coats, like tiny living cotton balls. Their skin contains lutein, a yellow carotenoid pigment, which gives their nose, face, ears, and ...