Strange Animals Podcast

Strange Animals Podcast


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Episode 453: The Skeleton Coast
October 06, 2025

It's October, AKA Monster Month! Let's learn about some animals of the Skeleton Coast--which sounds spooky, but actually isn't. - Lots of brown fur seals [photo by Robur.q - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0]: -

Episode 452: Rare Wallabies and Two Hoofed Beasts
September 29, 2025

Thanks to Brody, Oz, and Sam for their suggestions this week! - Further reading: - Chasing gold - Two spectacled hare-wallabies hanging out under a spinifex bush [picture from this site]: - A regular

Episode 451: the Stellar Jay and the Gulper Eel
September 22, 2025

Thanks to Joelle, Jacob, and Anna for their suggestions this week! - Further reading/watching: - Gulper Eel Balloons Its Massive Jaws - Watch rare footage of a shapeshifting eel with 'remarkably full

Episode 450: Geckos and the Snow Leopard
September 15, 2025

Thanks for Preston and Pranav for suggesting this week's topics! - Further reading: DNA has revealed the origin of this giant mystery gecko Snow Leopards Dispersed Out of Tibetan Plateau Multiple Ti

Episode 449: The Gloucester Sea Serpent
September 08, 2025

This is a chapter of theBeyond Bigfoot and Nessie book, which you can buy or request at the library! - Further reading: - Debunking a Great New England Sea Serpent - A narwhal. I use this picture all

Episode 448: Tennessee water mysteries
September 01, 2025

While I'm at Dragon Con, here's an old Patreon episode about Tennessee water mysteries, including some spooky sightings of what were probably bears, and some mystery fish! - Show transcript: - Welcome

Episode 447: So Many Legs!
August 25, 2025

Thanks to Mila for suggesting one of our topics today! - Further reading: The mystery of the missing giant millipede Never-before-seen head of prehistoric, car-size 'millipede' solves evolutionary m

Episode 446: Termites
August 18, 2025

Thanks toYonatan and Eilee for this week's suggestion! - Further reading: Replanted rainforests may benefit from termite transplants A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds A family

Episode 445: Salinella
August 11, 2025

It's a tiny mystery animal! - Further reading: - Salinella what the crap was it? - Some of Frenzel's drawings of Salinella: - Show transcript: - Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. Im your host, Ka

Episode 444: Diskagma and Horodyskia
August 04, 2025

It's Invertebrate August! These creatures are the most invertebrate-y of all! Further reading: Dubious Diskagma Horodyskia is among the oldest multicellular macroorganisms, finds study A painting of d