Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Fantastically Wrong: The Legend of the Homicidal Fire-Proof Salamander

In the first century AD, Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder threw a salamander into a fire. He wanted to see if it could indeed not only survive the flames, but extinguish them, as Aristotle had claimed such creatures could. But the salamander didn’t … uh … make it. [HTML1] Yet that didn’t stop the legend […]













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