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When Pigs … Swim? Unraveling the Mystery of the Bahamas’ “Pig Beach”

Pigs Cant Fly But They Can Swim...

There’s an island in the Bahamas where feral pigs play in the sand, lay in the sun like overweight beach-bunnies, and swim out to boats to be fed by tourists. About 20 pigs and piglets live on the uninhabited island of Big Major Cay, in Exuma, the Bahamas, on what has been dubbed “Pig Beach.”

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Swimming Pigs

Chickens Help Scientists Study Dinosaur Death Pose

Is this T Rex just a big Chicken?

To address a long-standing mystery in paleontology, scientists went to the grocery store.
Many dinosaur fossils appear in the same pose, not so much “terrible lizard” as “terrible limbo accident.” Their tails are stretched out and their necks thrown back grotesquely. But it’s not clear why this is. Researchers from the University of Calgary in Canada got a fresh take on the puzzle—or, at least, a recently killed and frozen take—by using dead chickens.

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2015/08/28/chickens-help-scientists-study-dinosaur-death-pose/#.VeNnUZd2y7s