The two fish species were not likely to pair. They don’t live close to each other —the sturgeon is native to Russia and nearby regions while the paddlefish lives in the U.S., in the Mississippi River Valley. They don’t eat the same things; sturgeon is carnivorous and likes to eat small fish and crustaceans, while the paddlefish filters zooplankton from water. Both species are large and belong to freshwater fish. This still doesn’t explain how they got crossed to create a new type of fish.

It happened at the Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquaculture in Hungary where scientists have been working on breeding two species of fish. However, one of them accidentally gave paddlefish sperm to sturgeon eggs which lead to hundreds of baby hybrid fish with combined attributes of their parents. If you’re interesting to learn more about the new species they created this way, a study about it has been published in Genes recently.

“We never wanted to play around with hybridization,” the co-author of the study, Dr. Attila Mozsár, told The New York Times. “It was absolutely unintentional.”

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The Ig Nobel prizes are a yearly event hosted by Improbable Research, a science and humor devoted organization. The prizes are awarded with a goal to highlight scientific “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.”

“At the center of the definition of a liquid is an action: A material must be able to modify its form to fit within a container,” Fardin said. “If we take cats as our example, the fact is that they can adapt their shape to their container if we give them enough time. Cats are thus liquid if we give them the time to become liquid.”

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Scientist Tyson Hedrick explains in this video how they are able to stay stable at all times. Definitely worth watching if you want to learn more about the creatures on our planet!

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For a long time, we believed that humans are unique for the ability to have a conversation where two or more parties are equally involved and know (seemingly instinctively) when to speak and when to listen. Turns out, this type of communication is everywhere around us.

A scientific review published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences shows that many species communicate with their peers by taking turns on when to speak. With some animals, the “conversation” is not even based on sound, but done with hand gestures (bonobo) and feather colors (birds).

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The two fish species were not likely to pair. They don’t live close to each other —the sturgeon is native to Russia and nearby regions while the paddlefish lives in the U.S., in the Mississippi River Valley. They don’t eat the same things; sturgeon is carnivorous and likes to eat small fish and crustaceans, while the paddlefish filters zooplankton from water. Both species are large and belong to freshwater fish. This still doesn’t explain how they got crossed to create a new type of fish.

It happened at the Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquaculture in Hungary where scientists have been working on breeding two species of fish. However, one of them accidentally gave paddlefish sperm to sturgeon eggs which lead to hundreds of baby hybrid fish with combined attributes of their parents. If you’re interesting to learn more about the new species they created this way, a study about it has been published in Genes recently.

“We never wanted to play around with hybridization,” the co-author of the study, Dr. Attila Mozsár, told The New York Times. “It was absolutely unintentional.”

The post Scientists Accidentally Made a New Fish Hybrid appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BlylTCQB44R/

The Ig Nobel prizes are a yearly event hosted by Improbable Research, a science and humor devoted organization. The prizes are awarded with a goal to highlight scientific “achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.”

“At the center of the definition of a liquid is an action: A material must be able to modify its form to fit within a container,” Fardin said. “If we take cats as our example, the fact is that they can adapt their shape to their container if we give them enough time. Cats are thus liquid if we give them the time to become liquid.”

The post Ig Nobel Prize Goes to Scientist Who Studied if Cats Were Liquid or Solid appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

Scientist Tyson Hedrick explains in this video how they are able to stay stable at all times. Definitely worth watching if you want to learn more about the creatures on our planet!

The post Hawk Moths and the Art of Staying Stable appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.

For a long time, we believed that humans are unique for the ability to have a conversation where two or more parties are equally involved and know (seemingly instinctively) when to speak and when to listen. Turns out, this type of communication is everywhere around us.

A scientific review published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences shows that many species communicate with their peers by taking turns on when to speak. With some animals, the “conversation” is not even based on sound, but done with hand gestures (bonobo) and feather colors (birds).

The post Many Animals Speak in Turns, Just Like Humans appeared first on Our Funny Little Site.