Thursday, June 12, 2008

Single-horned 'Unicorn' deer found in Italy


AP Photo

For those of you who believe in unicorns and those of you who want to believe, we got one for ya.

OK, its a deer and not a horse, but still...

You will never guess what they named it. Yep. Rusty.

Just joking with you.
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.

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