Hoaxilla #360 – Rhinogradientia – HOAXILLA®

In 1957, the book about the "nose screamers" or "noselings" (Rhinogradentia) was published. It was edited by Prof. Harald Stümpke, who published the research findings of the Swedish biologist Einar Petterson-Skämtwist. Skämtwist had discovered the noselings in 1941 while escaping from Japanese captivity on the Pacific island group of Hi-Iay Islands. This species was only found there. A failed nuclear weapons test in 1945 led to the destruction o…