5 Things About Red Deer
	1.The first deer appeared 50 million years ago. Eumeryx from Oligocene (35 million years ago) in Asia was devoid of antlers and had developed upper tusks, like modern day muntjacs. The first antlered deer appeared 20 MA ago: Dicroceros in Asia had simple antlers, forks on tall pivots. About 2 MA ago, when clime turned colder, the steppes were inhabited by herds of giant deer with ramified antlers. The giant deer Megaceros inhabited the ... [read more >>]
	24 January 2008, 16:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Various Hunting Traditions
	Not all the hunters prefer the same game and not all hunt the same way. Of course, some prefer to "hunt" women, but to each his own. For example, in England roe deer and rabbits are not that much appreciated as game species, being left to the rangers, and nobody would think to shoot wild doves, which can become agriculture pests in a few years, the task being left to paid professional hunters. Instead, the "big 12" is t ... [read more >>]
	07 December 2007, 08:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Deer Antlers for Regenerating Lost Limbs?
	Could you lose one hand and grow back another? Cut off your ears and regrow another pair? Humans cannot do this, deer neither, but they shed their antlers annually and regenerate others, even bigger and this could come with some explanations for us. And deer are closer to us than the limb regenerating salamanders. "There is no other mammal which loses an organ and it regenerates again", said Dr Stephen Haines, senior ... [read more >>]
	30 November 2007, 09:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Bloody Maya Rituals Exterminated Large Mammals
	It is a matter of status in Yemen to wear a dagger with rhino horn made handle, or to afford chewing tiger bone penis in China. These customs have put on the brink of extinction those species. Maya rulers made no exception: huge demand for symbolic species explains the decline in big mammals, like jaguars and tapirs, in ancient Central America, as pointed by a new research published in the Journal for Nature Conservation. Over 80,000 a ... [read more >>]
	16 November 2007, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

10 Stupid Beliefs about Animals
	Some beliefs are due to a lack of scientific knowledge, some come from legends and others are the cause of misspellings from one language to another or even sensory illusions! Here are just 10 of them: 1.Camels do not store water in their humps. This widespread belief comes from the fact that, while crossing the desert, they can resist up to 17 days without water under a scorching heat, while their humps are diminishing. In reality, the ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2007, 07:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sushi Made of Raw Horse?
	Sushi is an integral part of the Japanese culture. And tuna is the king of the sushi. But the current world shortages of tuna could remove it from Japan’s sushi menus, something unimaginable in a country where tuna has as many names as snow for the Eskimals. When global fishing bodies recently started lowering the catch limits for the world’s rapidly depleting tuna fisheries, Japan entered a national state of panic. News programs repo ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2007, 03:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia