In the Center of Natural Sciences, Prato, in Italy an unique Roe deer was bred one year before and named as- “UNICORN“. A deer with one horn is a fantasy. Now this fantasy becomes reality told Gilberto Tozzi, director of this institute.
A young deer with a single horn in the center of its head is drawing hundreds of visitors to the nature reserve in Tuscany, Italy.
Although it is first time in captivity, such anomalies among deer may have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
Generally the horn would be on one side rather than being at the center. This is a unique case among deers. The central position of the horn may be due some accident at the early stages of this animal. And also This anomaly may be due to genetic flaw because his twins has two horns.
Unicorn, a horse-like creature with magical powers, has been noticed in stories and legends throughout history, from ancient and modern adventures of Harry Potter. The myth of unicorn is also centered towards other mammals like NARWHAL, a whale with a long, spiralling tusk.
May be in some other day, the horn in the center of the deer may get mutated to form a spiralling tusk at the center of head. Who knows? It’s all science…
The rare footage of the world’s more rarest rhino have been captured by the hidden cameras in the Jungles of Indonesia’s Java island. This rare rhino is inhabitated only in two places in the world viz. 50 of them in the Ujung Kulon National Park in Java and eight of them in Cat Tien National Park in Vietnam.
Specially designed video cameras have been installed in Ujung Kulon to capture the pictures of these rare rhinos. Fortunately the team led by the campaign group WWF able to capture the footage of these rare Javan rhinos at the cost of the expensive cameras. The mother rhino became a little overexcited and charged the camera, sending it flying.
Adhi Rachmat Hariyadi, who leads WWF-Indonesia’s project is very much excited to note the presence of this rarest rhino in their project area. The footage is a big boon in wild life conservation to save the species. Hariyadi told that this footage gives new information on the rhinos’ health as well as vital insights into their breeding habits.
I am really amazed to hear that foresters in the western parts of India are making use of ring tones of roosters crowing, goats bleating and cows mooing to attract the leopards that intruded into the human inhabitation. Read the rest of this entry »
Can you believe that a bull-sized mouse roamed in this world four million years ago? Yes… Scientists discovered a fossil of 1-1.4 tonnes weight in a broken bolder on the coast of Rio de La Plata in Uruguay.
The scientists of Minnesota University reported success in creating a beating rat heart in laboratory. “You can make any organ” has become as a new notion. Scientists created limbs, fingers, etc in the past confirmed that the dream of creating human heart may be achieved within 10 years.
The Missing link between the whale and land animal was recently found out. It was nothing but a Raccoon like animal which looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers, or an overgrown long-legged rat.
In Kashmir region fossils recently dug up revealed the fact that the creature that bridges the whale and land animal is called as Indohyus.This creature revealed that there is crucial evolutionary similarities between it and water-dwelling cetaceans, such as porpoises, dolphins and whales.
This Indohyus can be considered as a closest relative of whale as thousands of fossils are recently dug in Kashmir, which is a part of India.Hans Thewissen, Professor of Anatomy at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine confirmed that this animal is a “missing link” to the sister species to ancient whales. He added- Morphologically this raccoon like animal won’t resemble whale at all. But anatomically speaking both of them are having same thickened ear bone.
“The earliest Whales didn’t resemble the current one” Professor Thewissen said. “It looked like a cross between a dog and pig”. The whales lost their legs and walking ability on land about 40 million years age, he said.
Previously most of the scientists believed that the hippopotamus has been the perfect candidate for the closest land relative as it closely resemble the whale not only in its features but also similar DNA.
In the yester years (say, million years ago), whales were natural descends of India and Pakistan. But Hippos are native of Africa. So there is no possibilty of evolution of Hippos from whales.
Below is the image of the suspected Indohyus
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) — When Jody Fabry descended the basement stairs to her seasonal home and saw broken glass on the floor, then spied what caused the mess, she didn’t know who was more frightened — her, or the deer that was the culprit.
A young doe apparently got into the basement through a window, then couldn’t get out. Fabry called officers to her home, but it was more difficult than it looked to remove the animal.
Officers eventually ended up chasing it around the basement until it jumped back out the way it came, then bounded off.
The deer, which Fabry guessed had been in the unoccupied home for a day, appeared to be unhurt.
BOLIVIA, N.C. (AP) — An unknown predator mauled a pit bull and killed two puppies in Brunswick County, and residents fear it’s the same animal that killed three dogs in September. No one has reported ever seeing the animal.
The county’s animal control agency investigated the animal’s tracks, droppings and other clues but couldn’t determine what attacked the dogs. Locals call the unknown animal the Beast of Bolivia.
Some residents and experts said the predator may be a bear, a wayward panther or cougar, or even a wolf because 3-inch paw tracks were found at the scene.
Many suggest the predator came from the nearby Faircloth Zoo, which had a lion and a tiger before it closed more than a year ago. Animal control officials said the animals were sent elsewhere.
Information from: The Star-News, http://starnewsonline.com
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