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This creature had been part of my life for almost 17 years. He wasn't exactly a normal cat. He was built like a medium sized dog. When he was healthy he weighed over 20 pounds. Today he weighed just over 10 pounds and was skin and bone. He had been sick on and off for about a year. Antibiotics helped but he never completely recovered. This morning he really looked bad. We called the vet and took him in. I already expected the worst. The vet said his temp was 92 F (normal is about 101). I expected him to...

A STONE phallus 28,000 years-old has been discovered in a cave in Baden-Wuertemberg in southern Germany, the University of Tubingen said today. In assembling 14 stone fragments, found last year in the Hohle Fels cave, archeologists rebuilt the phallus, which is 20 centimetres long and three centimetres wide. It will be on display at the prehistoric museum in Blaubeuren, starting on Monday. The caves in the Blaubeuren region, which sheltered Neanderthal man, are among the most important archeological sites in Europe. The oldest object representing a bird, dating back 32,000 years, was discovered a few years ago in the same...