Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer

The Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer is a fictional animal invented by Discover magazine as an April Fool's Day joke.

A short article on the Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer first appeared in the April 1995 issue of Discover magazine.

Folger wrote several other April Fool stories for the magazine, including a basketball-sized particle named the "bigon",[2] and the discovery of prehistoric musical instruments— rhinoceros bladder bagpipes, a mastodon-tusk tuba, and a bone triangle—supposedly used by Neanderthals.

[3] The article carried a purported photo of a Naked mole rat-like creature with a bony growth protruding from its head.

To acquire food, a group of these animals would burrow into the ice underneath suitable prey, and use their heads to melt through.