Single-horned 'Unicorn' deer is found in Italy

June 11th, 2008 By MARTA FALCONI , Associated Press Writer

This undated photo provided by the Center of Natural Sciences in Prato, Italy, Wednesday, June 11, 2008, shows a deer with a single horn in the center of its head. The one-year-old Roe Deer - nicknamed 'Unicorn' - was born in captivity in the research center's park in the Tuscan town of Prato, near Florence, Gilberto Tozzi, director of the Center of Natural Sciences, said. He is believed to have been born with a genetic flaw; his twin has two horns. (AP Photo/Center of Natural Sciences)

(AP) -- 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.

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• berwiki - Jun 11, 2008
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  sweet. lets kill it!
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• Wasabi - Jun 11, 2008
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  Let's clone it.
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• Quantum_Conundrum - Jun 11, 2008
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  Hahaha.
  
  Next time an Atheist uses the "sure, but unicorns might exist" argument, I'm going to mention this. They DO exist! Lol...
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• makotech222 - Jun 11, 2008
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  technically, unicorns are horses so hah
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• SmartK8 - Jun 11, 2008
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  Quantum_Conundrum: Well I'm atheist (yeah, this is a default setting for a human) and I'm telling you.. this is the 'Unicorn' not a unicorn. How about that ? :)
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• superhuman - Jun 12, 2008
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  Its unihorn
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• Lord_jag - Jun 12, 2008
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  If I named my cat unicorn, it still doesn't mean they exist. Unicorns are horses and have magical healing powers. You think this deer has healing powers?
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• KB6 - Jun 12, 2008
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  I thought unicorns were supposed to be a complete species or genus, not isolated mutants.
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• nano999 - Jun 12, 2008
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  It's not a horn for Christ sake; it's an antler.
  
  
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• D666 - Jun 12, 2008
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  So it's the mythical uniantler. It's more real than the mythical virgin :-)
  
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• Mercury_01 - Jun 12, 2008
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  LJ, I bet you 1,000,000 that this unicorn has healing powers.
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• Captain_Sakonna - Jun 19, 2008
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  dictionary.com defines the unicorn as, "A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros." I don't think they have to have magical healing powers. Besides, if we found a horse without healing powers with a single horn on its forehead, I think we would call it a unicorn. Myths don't have to be completely accurate to have some truth in them.
  
  For all we know, there might have been such an animal once, we just haven't found the fossils yet.
  
  "Well I'm atheist (yeah, this is a default setting for a human)"
  
  Don't you think that's a little arrogant? The percentage of atheists in the human population is fairly small. This suggests that belief in some kind of deity(ies) is actually the "default setting."
  
  Mecury_01, you bet 1,000,000 what? Grains of sand? :)
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• snwboardn - Jun 19, 2008
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  "This shows that even in past times, there could have been animals with this anomaly," he said by telephone. "It's not like they dreamed it up."
  
  LOL Well that's what they say about a worldwide flood that almost every religion known has had some variation of a story about. What about dragons? Must of been those crazy japanese smoking their opium.
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