Word: rhinocerosity
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Although the great hornless rhinoceros which paleontologists call Baluchitherium was undoubtedly the largest mammal that ever walked the Earth, not a trace of him was found until 1911. No complete skeleton of this 25,000,000-year-old monster exists anywhere, and the only skull, found in the Gobi by...
In 1590 the religious of a Spanish monastery presented a unicorn horn in a handsome leather case to the new Pope, Gregory XIV, who was in feeble health. Next year the Pope sank so alarmingly that it was gravely decided to administer the powdered tip of the horn. Despite this...
General Hugh Johnson: "Head gives impression of being all face. Brutal, coarse, ruthless mug of toadlike consistency. Fleshy features of crude clay. Deep ruts ploughed down cheeks as if by cartwheels through heavy mud. Eyes smothered in stout scallops of pulp. Body prehistoric mound, clothing tugged on in folds like...
It has recently been brought to our attention that the day of Joe College has passed. For this enlightening bit of information we are indebted to no less an authority than Princeton's own Day Edgar, writing in that self-styled "man's man's," magazine, "Enquire." According to Mr...
Six lions, two tigers, two cougars, an Indian leopard, a male buffalo, a rhinoceros named Toodles, an elephant named Nancy, an agouti, a coati-mundi and some 300 other kinds of beast, bird & fish used to be on view in Coalman George Fulmer Getz's zoo at Holland, Mich...