Tag: horns
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PBS Eons: When Rodents Had Horns
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about horned rodents, more specifically horned gophers. When originally described, they were likened to miniature rhinoceros. These odd rodents belong to a genus known as Ceratogaulus, but they’re more commonly called horned gophers, because, you guessed it, they had horns. And it turns out the horns…
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Field Museum: A Thanksgiving Tale of Two Horns
The Field Museum has a blog post about ammonites and Thanksgiving. What do Thanksgiving and a fossil ammonite have in common? In ancient times, the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans associated the coiled horns of rams with gods, power, virility, fertility, and abundance. The cornucopia—a conical wicker basket with a never-ending supply of food flowing from…
