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In the Natural History, Pliny writes about the strange race of people known as the Panotti who live in the "All-Ears Islands" off of Scythia. These people there have bizarrely large ears that are so huge that the Panotti use them as blankets to shield their body against the chills of the night. [1] Their ears were used in lieu of clothing. [2]
Little People – various fairy/elf-like beings believed in across North America. Some are a couple inches tall and look like humans, some a couple feet and are hairy or look ugly, some take the form of human children. Different types can be mischievous, evil or beneficial. Mesingw – (Algonquian) Lenape name for the spirit of the forests.
Neoteny in humans is further indicated by the limbs and body posture, with the limbs proportionately short compared to torso length; [2] longer leg than arm length; [6] the structure of the foot; [1] and the upright stance. [7] [8] Humans also retain a plasticity of behavior that is generally found among animals only in the young. The emphasis ...
Protruding ear, otapostasis or bat ear is an abnormally prominent human ear. It may be unilateral or bilateral. The concha is large with poorly developed antihelix and scapha. It is the result of malformation of cartilage during primitive ear development in intrauterine life. [1] The deformity can be corrected anytime after five years of age.
cop-like insurance agents (a human male and an emu sidekick); parody on 1970s TV crime drama shows Little Mikey: Life cereal: 1972–1981: played by John Gilchrist: Little Caesar: Little Caesars pizza: Lucky the Leprechaun: Lucky Charms cereal: 1964–present: originally voiced by Arthur Anderson and presently voiced by Tex Brashear: Red and ...
There is a birth defect of the ear that is visible and relatively common around the world. It is called preauricular sinus which, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, or NIH ...
A Canadian scientist has turned a common fruit into a structure to grow human ears.
Nāga – A term referring to human/snake mixes of all kinds. Onocentaur – A creature that has the upper body of a human with the lower body of a donkey and is often portrayed with only two legs. Ophiotaurus – A creature that has the upper body of a bull and the lower body of a snake. Peryton – A deer with the wings of a bird.