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Stories about: musk

The Last Surviving Ice Age Beast: Musk Ox This animal was the third largest beast that Europeans hunted when the continent was covered by ice and snow, after the woolly mammoth and woolly rhino. Indeed, the musk ox (Ovibos moschatus), even if not very tall due to its short feet (just 1.5 m or 5 ft), can be 410 kilos (910 pounds) heavy. The lineage of the mus... 7 December 2007 16:37 GMT ...Get the Best Perfume from the Cat's A**... Does it come as a surprise for you to find that your extremely costly perfume comes from a cat's ass? One of the first famous and highly valued perfumes, named Civet, comes from the civet cat and is an ancient article of commerce. In Arabia and Africa, civet is employed for millennia and in Arabia it's stil... 2 March 2007 10:55 GMT