There are Exactly This Many Goats in America
There were 2,621,514 goats in the United States as of 2012, the year of the most recent USDA Agricultural Census. If America’s goats were their own state, its [...]
anthropology
Ancient Swamp Creature Named After Mick Jagger
The Jaggermeryx: an ancient hippo-like swamp creature with big lips. Naming the fossil of an extinct pig-like swamp creature after Mick Jagger might not sound like much of [...]
New Dinosaur is Called the Chicken from Hell
Scientists have discovered a freakish, birdlike species of dinosaur — 11 feet long, 500 pounds, with a beak, no teeth, a bony crest atop its head, murderous claws, [...]