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Comedian Mark Malkoff Brings a Goat in the Apple Retail Store

Apple is notorious for its permissive attitude when it comes to accommodating customers in its retail establishments, a fact most recently proven in Japan. But there has to be a limit as to what’s allowed and what's not allowed to do in the Apple Retail Store, one would think. Just like the renowned Myth...

26 July 2011
08:36 GMT

A Bad Mix: Goats and Archaeological Sites

Studies suggests that some of the oldest discoveries made, and some of the most interesting conclusions derived from analyzing archaeological sites may need to be revisited, as they could be misleading.Researchers say that this may be particularly true for studies of the Stone Age and its cultures. There are some thi...

24 September 2010
10:43 GMT

Kalash: The People of the Nine Skies

These people are said to descend from the soldiers of Alexander the Great, stranded and established in foreign lands. Kalash people call the peak of the mountains with a word that does not require explanations: Olympus. The discovery in the '80s of Greek inscriptions in a former Kalash area in Afghanistan furthe...

18 March 2008
16:46 GMT

Meet a Geep: a Hybrid Between a Goat and a Sheep!

While scientists face political and ethic issues in getting hybrid embryos, farm animals ignore all the fuss and go on their own. Such an example is Lisa, the geep, a crossbreed between a goat and a sheep. The lamb/kid was born following an unsuspected sexual encounter on the farm of Klaus Exsternbrink, in Schwerte, ...

11 February 2008
14:06 GMT

The American Chamois is White: Mountain Goat

Together with the bighorn sheep, the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) is one of the symbols of the Rocky Mountains, inhabiting their rough and barren cliffs and executing amazing stunts amongst the rocks. Today, no more than 5,000 mountain goats are found, about 1,500-2,000 being encountered in the Glacier Nationa...

4 February 2008
09:11 GMT

How to Eat Thorns

You may have heard about the South African veld, an arid plane. Velds can be of many types, and noorsvelds refer to those where the dominant vegetation consists of noors (Euphorbia species), succulent and thorny plants, the ecological variant for cacti in Africa. But the noorsveld is a ranching area where Angora goat...

18 December 2007
07:17 GMT

A Unique Albino Mountain Goat

Domestic goat kids can be white and fluffy (depending on the case). But that's normal, and this is a genetic pattern that does not match the genetic condition of albinism, when the brown melanin pigment cannot be synthesized. But now, forest rangers in the northern Italian Alps have confirmed and got image proof...

26 June 2007
05:28 GMT

Sony Clears Up The 'Guts of War' Story

Now that we've seen Sony's dark side with the God of War II launch party, hosted by a necked goat with tasty insides, Sony's answering to the criticism (well deserved if any of it had been true). SCEE told Kotaku the true story, dismissing every nasty detail that Daily Mail's editor mixed up. I to...

30 April 2007
11:02 GMT

Guts of War - Decapitated Goat for the Launch of God of War II

This has to be the most outrageous piece of news I'll ever be writing in my life. I'm careful so that my hands don't tremble when writing about this. At the UK launch party of God of War II for the PS2, Sony thought to give an extra appetizer to the ones present by encouraging them to eat offal from a...

30 April 2007
06:33 GMT


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