The Pinch Of Wisdom

16/03/2020

How Dinosaurs Chewed without Cheeks

A unique anatomical setup helped some herbivorous dinosaurs crunch through their Cretaceous world What did extinct dinosaurs look like? We’ve been wondering this since the time before the word “dinosaur” was even coined, strange bones inspiring thoughts of creatures unlike any we see around us...

07/02/2020

You Can’t Save a Species If It Doesn’t Have a Name

A newly discovered plant genus could be wiped out by dams and mining. Could giving it a name save it from extinction? As a senior researcher at Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, Cheek leads a team of people who work around the clock to identify and name new plant species from Africa and Madagascar. Over....

07/02/2020

How to Vaccinate a Wild Bat

A new technology could make it much easier to fight deadly white-nose syndrome This probably won’t come as a surprise, but vaccinating wild bats is a difficult task. It’s also an important one: many bat populations are now endangered by white-nose syndrome, a serious fungal disease that invades ...

07/02/2020

Frog-Killing Chytrid Fungus Far Deadlier than Scientists Realized

Researchers have tallied the global death toll of the frog-killing chytrid fungus and its devastation is far worse than scientists thought, according to a study published yesterday (March 28) in Science. The fungal pathogens that cause the disease chytridiomycosis ravage the skin of frogs, toads, an...

07/02/2020

Cats Perk Up at the Sound of Their Own Names

Many regard felines as indifferent to their human companions, but cat owners may beg to differ—and now they research to back them up. A study published yesterday (April 4) in Scientific Reports suggests that domestic cats can distinguish the sounds of their names, even if they don’t come when ca...

04/02/2020

Fish and Bees “Talk” with Help from Robot Translators

A robot interacting with young honey bees in Graz, Austria, exchanged information with a robot swimming with zebrafish in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the robots’ communication influenced the behavior of each animal group, according to a study published in Science Robotics today (March 20). “It’...

04/01/2020

I really love cute animals, and I love how cute corgis look like with their short legs. I decided to draw a corgi, and then a munchkin cat with short legs to be its friend. My husband really loves the name Victoria, so we decided to call the corgi Tori for short, while we chose a classic name to des...

04/01/2020

Japanese Artist Turns Tom And Jerry’s Most Unfortunate Moments Into Sculptures, And The Result Is Hilarious

I think it's safe to say that we want to forget our dumb actions. Especially if they made us look like complete idiots. However, some of us couldn't even if we tried. Like Tom and Jerry.