A giant fossilized footprint has been found in the Cleveland National Forest in California, suggesting that Bigfoot may have once lived in the nearby mountains. To see the print, it?s necessary to climb more than a thousand feet up a rugged mountain. “I go out of my way to make a slip trail where nobody else has been and I was actually looking for gold,” says James Snyder, who discovered the footprint in February.
read more

Married men who spend time with their wives and kids have lower testosterone levels than bachelors. The discovery suggests that having less of the hormone could play a part in encouraging men to devote their energies to the family rather than looking for another partner.

In male birds from monogamous species, testosterone levels fall after they form a pair and start taking care of their young. Artificially raising levels of testosterone is known to cause the males to stray. This suggests that testosterone boosts competition for mates while lower levels encourage fatherly behavior.
read more

Fears that the infectious prion proteins that cause Mad Cow Disease could be present in chicken fillets have been raised after bovine (cow) protein was found in breast fillets tested by the Irish Food Safety Authority (FSAI). The tests were done after a report by the U.K. Food Standards Agency warned that pig proteins had been used to increase the weight of chicken from Holland and Belgium. DNA tests on 30 chicken samples revealed that 17 contained bovine DNA, porcine (pig) DNA or both.

Peter Smith, chairman of SEAC, the English advisory body on BSE and its human form vCJD, says, “If the source of the bovine material was fit for human consumption under EU regulations, then these findings pose no significant health risk. The problem is we don’t know.”
read more

Two young men, ages 26 and 28, died last fall in the same Michigan hospital of a rare brain disease that occurs mainly in elderly people. The incident, which raises fears that the human form of mad cow disease is here in the USA, prompted a swift investigation by federal health officials, but doctors familiar with the cases say there is no evidence to support that fear. They say autopsies and other tests indicate the victims died from so-called ”classic” forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
read more