Alamosa veterinarian Wallace Leary was so intrigued by the idea that extraterrestrials had whacked the horse that in 1968 he had Snippy’s skeleton mounted on a metal platform, her bones held ...

His skeleton provided context to the story of the first mass-produced stopwatch that split time into fractions of seconds—allegedly developed to time Lexington’s feats on the racetrack. In 2010, some ...