Antler development is usually on the 2 permanent pedicles which developed a few months after birth, but they also can develop at other locations. A paper published in 1894 reported a 9.8 cm antler grew at the location where a broken piece of glass had pierced the skin and periosteum (a tissue covering bones) of a roe deer’s face. Since […]

Every year, a few days before Thanksgiving, the President of the United States of America pardons two turkeys. Most turkeys are denied clemency and suffer the same fate as 46 million others. They become a Thanksgiving entrée. And lunch on Friday. Sometimes Saturday, too. Though many letters are sent, only two are granted pardons. Here are this year’s winners. Dear […]