The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum is one of the leading dinosaur museums in the world.
It is located in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, and is known as the treasury of dinosaur fossils of Japan.
The spacious museum building without pillars is filled with various dinosaur skeletons, fossils of other animals and plants, dioramas with dinosaur life reconstruction models, and so forth. There are also dinosaur animatronics (robots) showing powerful and realistic motions of the prehistoric animals.
An interesting museum exhibit is a reconstruction of the Fukuivenator, whose fossils were discovered in Fukui Prefecture. It is the reptile recreated in chocolate by pastry chef Susumu Koyama, Japan News reports.
Contained inside a sealed glass case, the chocolate Fukuivenator can only be viewed and not eaten.
Meanwhile, Italy’s research agency ENEA has introduced futuristic and highly nutritious sweet snacks to demonstrate the application of its lab-grown plant cells.
Silvia Massa, head of ENEA’s Agriculture 4.0 lab, said their Nutri3D project allows the production of food when climate change and lack of arable land hinder the planting of crops.
The process involves growing plant cells in bioreactors by feeding them sugar, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients, GreenQueen.com reports.
The plant cells are then mixed with fruit residue from the production of jam to produce an “ink” which is fed to a special 3D printer.
The printer prints the fruit snacks in the shape of a multi-layered snack bar and glossy spheres called “honey pearls.”
ENEA conducted a survey to gauge the consumer response to the plant-based, 3D-printed snacks and 59 percent of respondents said they were willing to try such foods, according to Reuters.