Take, for example, those pesky dead bodies one has to deal with, after all the funeral weeping is over.
If sincere respect for the dead doesn't concern you, undertakers could dissolve corpses in chemicals then flush the remains into the sewage system under plans being studied by European bureaucrats.
Source:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/the-other-side/dead-put-in-dunny/story-e6frfhk6-1225889434108
Scientists have aimed a high-energy X-ray beam at a fossil specimen of Archaeopteryx, the famed "flying dinosaur" and identified key chemicals in the 150-million-year-old bones, wings and soft tissue that settle definitively that the feather-like impressions in the rock that entombed Archaeopteryx were left by real feathers evolved for flight.
Source:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/11/BAKG1DCC9M.DTL&type=science
Thirty-eight years after DDT was banned, Americans still consume trace amounts of the infamous insecticide every day, along with more than 20 other banned chemicals
Source:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=chemical-tainted-food
Male pregnancy is a rare but real phenomenon in the animal kingdom.
In some instances, male pregnancy is the result of man-made chemicals having strange effects on male frogs and bass, prompting weird intersex developments. In other situations, male pregnancy is a natural part of how seahorses, pipefish and leafy sea dragons reproduce.
Source:
http://webecoist.com/2010/03/07/role-reversal-5-strange-tales-of-animal-male-pregnancies/
