Strange Animals Podcast

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Episode 453: The Skeleton Coast
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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