If I had a dollar for every, “Hey, humans aren’t that different from other animals, after all” comic I’ve drawn over the years, I’d be able to sustain myself on advances in animal cognition for years. The most recent of such discoveries comes to us from Michael J. Beran and Bonnie M. Perdue of the Georgia [...]
Today’s comic is brought to you by WTF Evolution? which featured the oddly named Sarcastic Fringehead yesterday. The fringe I can understand, but sarcastic? I needed to look that up. Apparently the Fringehead’s fiercely territorial nature earned it its the unconventional monicker, though more than a few sources point to the etymology of the word [...]
You may have heard the other day that there was a Beluga that taught itself to mimic human speech sounds. I use the word “speech” lightly, because it sounds more like that time Doug was trying to learn to be a ventriloquist for the school talent show*. Named NOC (No-See), the beluga had figured out [...]
It was aight. No, it was spectacular! I have so much that needs to be condensed down into a post-necss report. There will be plenty of stories, talk synopses, and comics based off the convention for a good while. I’ll also recount conversations I had with some of my favorite people in the science and [...]