April Fools' Roundup

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by Jennifer Carpenter on 1 April 2011, 2:26 PM |


In honor of April Fools' Day, there are some good fake science news stories circling the web today. Here are a few of our favorites:

Want to be your own Dr. Doolittle? Check out Google's new app, which " translates animal speech into human vernacular." (Be sure to watch the video.)

And speaking of apps, here's a story and a video about gorillas "going ape" over the new iPad . An important clue into primate behavior, or just a waste of time? As head keeper Phil Ridges says in the article, "We thought they would bang them on rocks but they carry them round as if they were babies."

Fossil buffs will be excited to learn about a new find unearthed at the Tower of London that could rewrite evolutionary history. Here's a clue: It's got a single, thin horn.


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http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/april-fools-roundup.html?

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1. gorillas and the iPad

"Hey, would you mind if I ask Sheila out?"

"Of course not. But I don’t think she’d go for a guy like…

"She said she’d love to. She can’t wait to see me. She’s wanted me to ask her out for over a year now. She just sent me a video."

"Hey, can I see that?"