The April 1995 issue of Discover magazine announced that wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. They had heads with bony plates that became burning hot due to overactive blood vessels. These creatures could bore through ice at high speeds and hunt penguins by melting ice and causing them to sink into the slush and the hotheads’ mouths. Dr. Pazzo also credited the hotheads with the 1837 disappearance of Antarctic explorer Philippe Poisson. “To the ice borers, he would have looked like a penguin,” she was quoted as saying. Discover received more mail about this article than any other in their history. It was, of course, a joke. And “Pazzo” is Italian for “crazy.” — from Museum of Hoaxes