In the mating world of yellow dung flies, large, brawny males almost always get the girl. However, a new study suggests that smaller males rule if presented with an opportunity to woo females when they are not hanging out on cow dung.

More than 100 people gathered in Golden, Colo., to mark the 163rd birthday of William Buffalo Bill Cody with buffalo chip tossing and other events. Revelers gathered Sunday at the Buffalo Bill Museum on Lookout Mountain to celebrate the birthday of Cody, who served as a head of scouts for the Army and a Pony Express rider before finding fame with his touring Wild West Show, The Denver Post reported Monday. The event included cake, ice cream and a buffalo chip tossing contest, with the winners receiving prizes from the museum's gift shop. Buffalo chips or cow chips were very much a part of their lives in their days, museum director Steve Friesen said of Buffalo Bill and his contemporaries.

Move over horse power, cow power could be the next big thing! The California State Fair today announced that the event will host the first known amusement ride powered entirely by cow manure.

PG&E customers will get natural gas from cow manure for the first time today.

By Kristina Peterson, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Feb. 18--Palo Alto is looking at becoming the first municipal utility in the state to use methane gas from cow manure as a source of alternative energy.