In its April 1995 issue Discover Magazine announced that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds. They used this ability to hunt penguins, melting the ice beneath the penguins and causing them to sink downwards into the resulting slush where the hotheads consumed them. After much research, Dr. Pazzo theorized that the hotheads might have been responsible for the mysterious disappearance of noted Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson in 1837. "To the ice borers, he would have looked like a penguin," the article quoted her as saying. Discover received more mail in response to this article than they had received for any other article in their history.
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I was suckered by this one too. I went around telling people about it for about a year afterward until I realized it was an april fools' joke. I think it was the story of the Bigon the next year, that made me suspicious about both of them.
Posted by jim collier  in  san francisco  on  Thu Nov 01, 2007  at  11:01 AM

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This hoax completely got me when I was in 9th grade. I didn't think about the language. I only wanted to believe that there were naked mole rats living in the Antarctic. It really had me for the entire month until the next issue. I had told a bunch of kids about it, and they were incredulous. A month later I admitted that I was wrong but everyone had forgotten about it.
Posted by justin damm  in  chicago, IL  on  Mon Mar 31, 2008  at  09:01 PM

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"Proud and Free, a fierce ice borer bellows a challenge"

That caption with the picture from the original Discover article,
suggesting that the little critters either barked or made whatever rodent-like sounds,
had me and a buddy of mine back in the day nickname these things "Antarctic screaming heat weasels" !
Posted by Danjo Dycle  in  PA  on  Tue Apr 01, 2008  at  03:14 AM

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thanks alex Oyun indir
Posted by Oyun indir  on  Fri Jun 20, 2008  at  05:21 AM

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