January 13 is National Rubber Ducky Day. The colorful toy is a staple in children's bath tubs and is more than a century old. But how did the simple yellow duck become so popular? The earliest ducks ...

National Rubber Ducky Day is celebrated every Jan. 13 The bathtub toy gained massive popularity in the '70s due to "Sesame Street" Rubber ducks helped scientists learn more about ocean currents and ...

Scientists now have the dirt on the rubber ducky: Those cute yellow bath-time toys are — as some parents have long suspected — a haven for nasty bugs. Swiss and American researchers counted the ...

In 1992, the fourth annual Rubber Ducky Regatta, a fundraiser for the Pulaski-Saline Unit of the American Cancer Society, launched about 6,000 bathtub toys on the Arkansas River. A dumptruck tipped ...