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In 1532, the geographer Jacob Ziegler of Bavaria proposed the theory that the creatures fell out of the sky during stormy weather and then died suddenly when the grass grew in spring.
lol, that’s dumb
This description was contradicted by natural historian Ole Worm, …
well duh, of course people thought that was stupi—
… who accepted that lemmings could fall out of the sky, but claimed that they had been brought over by the wind rather than created by spontaneous generation.
oh
Bad enough being called Ole Worm
Of course not, this has been debunk for decades.
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The video game ones do.
If they do, it is probably to avoid grammar like ‘off of’.
Do people often throw themselves off precipices around you?
No. Perhaps because when I get paid to write about science, I don’t use grammar like that.