This blanket or robe was at some point renumbered to 2119. Jane Walsh feels it should be # 2109, Peale # 309 (or 310). She indicates that the object originally numbered 2119 was exchanged with Denmark ...

While this is certainly tall for a mallard duck — the Audubon Society writes that a male mallard is typically about 24 inches in length — Long Boi is not a mallard duck.

The mallard adoptee has been seen accepting small fish from its mother, but its duck instincts seem to be working, too: It rejects larger fish offered by the male loon.

Moeliker published his findings in a 2001 paper that would eventually snag him the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize in Biology.It also inspired the annual "Dead Duck Day" celebration, held at the very spot the ...