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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-11-08 02:43 PM
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Unicorns Exist!


Single-horned 'Unicorn' deer found in Italy

ROME - A deer with a single horn in the center of its head — much like the fabled, mythical unicorn — has been spotted in a nature preserve in Italy, park officials said Wednesday.

"This is fantasy becoming reality," Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, told The Associated Press. "The unicorn has always been a mythological animal."

The 1-year-old Roe Deer — nicknamed "Unicorn" — was born in captivity in the research center's park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Tozzi said.

He is believed to have been born with a genetic flaw; his twin has two horns...


more @ link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_fe_st/italy_unicorn;_ylt=ApDWwTt7I7t.UxV58FAX_lAPLBIF
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