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General => Council of Cobra => Topic started by: AgentDrake on June 21, 2008, 08:57:12 AM

Title: Scientists discover Unicorn... sort of.
Post by: AgentDrake on June 21, 2008, 08:57:12 AM

Check it out.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/11/unicorn-deer-italy.html

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"This shows that even in past times, there could have been animals with this anomaly," he said by telephone. "It's not like they dreamed it up."

1. Duh. Of course there could have been other animals with that deformity.

2. "It's not like they dreamed it up."   Uh... why not? Why is this suddenly indisputably the origin of the unicorn? Heck, this might easily have nothing to do with it! Not that it isn't a distinct possibility....

Title: Re: Scientists discover Unicorn... sort of.
Post by: sickofpalantirs on June 21, 2008, 11:07:22 AM

wow ou need to join my political party...PIB or pain in the but,. we always take the moniority view on everything ;)

Title: Re: Scientists discover Unicorn... sort of.
Post by: Glamdring on June 24, 2008, 08:58:36 AM

That is so weird.... Cool though; I wonder where the idea of unicorns came from.

Title: Re: Scientists discover Unicorn... sort of.
Post by: CarpeGuitarrem on June 24, 2008, 02:18:59 PM

There's a bit on Wikipedia about it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn#Possible_origins