Strange by Nature Podcast

5-Year Anniversary Show

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:30:00 -0500

It's that time again, our annual anniversary show. Guest naturalist and friend of the show Brett Sieberer takes control of the snow and quizzes us about our past year of shows. He challenges us to pronounce nearly unpronouncable lain names, makes us make tough choices about the animals we talked about on the show and of course we play a rousing round of Eat, Ride, Jacket. Let us know which you would choose!

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Zombie Snails for Lunch

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:30:00 -0600

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Victoria starts off today's show with a completely bizarre parasite. Usually parasites are secretive and don't want to be seen but the amazing Green Banded Broodsac absolutely loves attention and goes great lengths to be seen.

Kirk is up next and, big surprise here, he has a bird story for us. It turns out that not only are New Caledonian Crows super intelligent but research shows they also have handedness. That makes them only the second species on Earth other than humans to display this quality.

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The Wolves that Pollinate Flowers

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:30:00 -0600

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Rachel kicks off the show this week by talking about the strange pollinators of the beautiful Red Hot Poker flowers. Turns out it is the Ethiopian wolf! This is an incredible and rare example of pollination by large mammals.

Victoria is up next and she brings us the mysterious case of the all-female population of whiptail lizards. This population survives without men and reproduces through parthenogenesis.

Kirk finishes up the show with a short story about why sometimes it pays to be the loser. Research on Japanese Quail show that females often pick the loser of fights but they do it for a very good reason.

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The Fungus that Eats Radiation

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:30:00 -0600

Kirk starts us off this week with the bizarre story of a form of life that literally feeds on radiation. Found growing in Chernobyl, radiotrophic fungi are strange and amazing.

Rachel tells us about a medieval potion from Bald's Leechbook containing garlic, onion, wine, and ox bile that scientists have discovered kills up to 90 percent of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Victoria lets us know about Pavement Mushrooms. These edible urban mushrooms can grow right through sidewalks and asphalt. These incredible mushrooms are a fascinating example of urban survivors. Species that are able to thrive in the harsh human environments we have created.

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Why Redheads Have Secret Powers

Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:30:00 -0600

Victoria is back with us this week and she kicks things off with a doozy of a story about a species of bark lice that has undergone a complete swapping of genitals between males and females. It's a very cool story but has frank discussions of reproductive parts so parents feel free to decide if you're ready for those discussions with your young ones.

Kirk is up next with a story about Redheads! Sure, we all know some strange redheads but did you know they may have super powers? New studies show that being a redhead may protect you in an unusual way.

Rachel rounds out this week's show with JuMBOs, Jupiter Mass binary Objects. This mysterious new class of objects in space have researchers further refining what we thought was possible.

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Flipping the Earth's Poles

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:30:00 -0600

Kirk kicks things off this week with a wild story about how the magnetic field of the Earth has completely flipped in the past. The European Space Agency recently used data sonification to help people better understand this bizarre event.

Rachel heads to South America to let us know about a new species of scorpion recently discovered that can actually shoot their venom at foes. This is the first time this behavior has been seen in scorpions.

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I Yam What I Yam

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:30:00 -0600

Rachel starts us off this week with the strange Box Jellyfish. This is an animal you don't want to get mixed up with. Kirk never wants to go in the ocean again.

Speaking of Kirk, and speaking of strange, this week he's talking about Yams. Not any old yam, this one particular species does something never before seen in a plant anywhere else on Earth. It tricks birds into helping it reproduce asexually.

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Vampire Bats and Cinnamon Blood

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:30:00 -0600

Hello Everyone and thanks for listening this week.

Kirk kicks things off with a story about Vampire bats that just won't learn their lesson. In fact, they aren't able to. New research shows vampire bats may be the only mammal that doesn't develop food aversions after eating bad food.

Rachel is up next and she tells us about the tricky Harlequin bug. It comes in so many colors and varieties, scientists keep falling for the trap of calling it a new species over and over and over again.

Victoria tells us about the Common side-blotched lizard and how their mating strategies are a bit like Rock, Paper, Scissors. Let's play some Blue Lizard, Orange Lizard, Yellow Lizard!

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A Six Legged Whoopin!

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:30:00 -0600

Victoria starts us off this week with barnacles! I know, they may not sound that interesting but it turns out they are being used by researchers to help narrow the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370.

Kirk bring us the unbelievable tale of a wasp that uses pheromones to purposefully start massive ant brawls just so it can locate a butterfly. Yes, it is very weird.

Rachel rounds out this week with a look at the amazing creature, the Polar Bear. It has a few tricks up it's sleeve for surviving in the cold of the arctic.

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A Zombie Cockroach Baby Snack

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 04:30:00 -0600

Welcome to 2026! Rachel starts off the year with horrifying wasps that sting cockroaches, turn them into zombies and then lay their eggs in them so their young can devour them from the inside. You're welcome.

Victoria takes on the fascinating topic of all the animals that beat us to the idea of farming by millions of years. They even do weeding and apply fungicides. It gets wild.

Kirk heads to the ocean and discovers that some brittle stars are actually covered in millions of eyes. These eyes are unlike any other and absolutely wild.

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The Smallest Animals on Earth

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:30:00 -0600

The final episode of 2025. Here's what we have for you:

Kirk kicks off the show by looking into the very strange world of insect hearing. Turns out some flies use a rotating nose to hear.

Rachel is then up and she talks about the arms race between Bats and Moths. This conflict has lead to some amazing defenses on the part of the moths.

Victoria is up third and she brings us the smallest animals on earth, Myxozoans. These little creatures are technically an animal (related to jellyfish) but they are missing most of the genes for the things we usually associate with animals.

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Load the Fish Cannon!

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:30:00 -0600

Look, we get it. This is a busy week with family for a lot of people. If you are one of those people, we sincerely hope this episode helps you hide from family and obligations and take a moment for your weird selves. We're all in this together.

On this week's show, Victoria kicks things off with a deep dive on Bats. We often think of them as predators but they are prey animals as well. She talks about some of the animals that hunt bats and then stare some bizarre new research showing that even rats have started to hunt bats and unbelievably are catching them while they are flying.

Kirk then brings us the Top 7 birds that actively work to keep predators away from their nests. He covers amazing talents that range from distraction displays to essentially group mass defication on predators until they die. It gets wild.

Rachel rounds out this week by loading fish into a cannon and blasting them off. It sounds cruel but the fish cannon is actually a bizarre device to help migrating fish safely fly over tall dams on rivers.

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The Only True Blue in Nature

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:30:00 -0600

Rachel keeps things light as we start off the show with a discussion of Botulism toxin just in time for the holidays. Watch out for those bulging cans.

Victoria is up next and she talks about how rare blue is in nature. She shares the very few examples of true blue pigments found in nature.

Finally, Kirk talks about birds decorating their nests with predator scat to keep away predators.

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A Nuclear Bunker of Cannibal Ants

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:30:00 -0600

This week, Kirk starts us off with a strange story about mushrooms being used as computer parts. He sincerely hopes he never has to pronounce the word memristor again.

Rachel brings us the tale of a group of 100,000 cannibal ants living in a nuclear bunker.

Victoria rounds things out this week with research proving that at least one species of bat can catch and eat birds all while both are flying.

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Don't Stick Your Head in the Particle Accelerator

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:30:00 -0600

Victoria starts us off this week with a bizarre story about how some animals can see without having eyes.

Kirk is up next and he tells us about Fugu, a.k.a. the pufferfish and we learn about these highly toxic fish people like to eat. Their poison seems to come from a strange source.

Rachel is up last this week and she tells us all why we should not stick our head into an active particle accelerator. Just in case, you know, you were thinking of doing that.

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When Fish Climb Cliffs

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:35:00 -0600

Welcome to our 250th episode!

Rachel kicks things off with a discussion of Carrion Beetles.

Victoria then tells us about fish that can climb cliffs. Say what?

Kirk finishes up with the story of how one predator uses static electricity to attract themselves to their prey like a homing missile.

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Visit the Spider Megacity

Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:30:00 -0600

What a wild show this week. Well, it finally happened. After approximately 700 topics, we finally had two hosts come with the same secret topic. Kirk and Victoria both brought the same story. Kirk kicks things off talking about researchers finding the largest spider web in the world in a sulfur cave. Victoria adds in some fun extra facts from her research on the topic.

Rachel is up next and she discusses some of the weird things we all should know about the Pronghorn. Turns out they are so fast because they evolved with fast predators that no longer exist.

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Can a Snake be Venomous AND Poisonous?

Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:30:00 -0600

Victoria starts the show this week with a look at the cyclops (cyclopses?). From Greek legend to modern reality, Victoria traces a few of the possible origins of this legendary creature.

As promised last week, Kirk brings us the mighty Cave Lion. It seems strange but humans of the past living in Europe lived alongside cave lions longer than they have lived without them.

Rachel rounds out this week's show with a snake that is both venomous AND poisonous. Great, now we get to worry about that.

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Vampire Squid from Hell

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 06:57:05 -0600

Rachel starts the show this week with a topic that almost made the Halloween show last week. She brings us the Vampire Squid from Hell. That's literally what the scientific name of this bizarre deep-sea creature means.

Victoria brings us the story of the most deadly body of water in the world. She's talking about none other than The Strid in England. It looks like an idyllic stretch of water but this river is deadly.

Kirk wraps up this week's show by talking about some of the amazing megafauna that lived with humans here in North America. Lions, Mammoths and Bears oh my!

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Death by Potatoes

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:30:00 -0500

We've been building to it all month, it is time for Halloween and we have some great topics.

Kirk kicks off the show with a topic that may have you think twice about the candy you pop in your mouth this year. He talks about all of the ways that insects end up in your candy. Red food coloring from ground up beetles, excretions from the Lac beetles in your hard candy coating and maybe some bee vomit, insects are an important part of the candy business.

Are your potatoes trying to kill you? Time to unlock a new fear. Rachel gives us all a new reason to be afraid of the basement. This week she teaches us about solanine, the very deadly chemical in potatoes that can kill.

What could be more Halloween than bats? Victoria tells us all about Bat Flies. These strange Halloween-colored parasitic flies look like spiders, suck blood, give live birth, and live their whole lives on bats. They are truly bizarre.

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Ghosts in the Lab

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Victoria kicks things off this week with the terrifying topic of Prion diseases. These bizarre infections can take years to manifest, are incurable, and can turn your brain into a sponge. Charming.

Kirk is up next with a ghost story for this spooky season. Science wins out over superstition and in the end it ends up being a tale of how infrasound can affect human physiology and may be to blame for many ghost reports.

Rachel rounds out the show with a creature feature on the most venomous and possibly most painful animal in the world, the Stonefish.

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The Burning Crater of Fire

Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:52:28 -0500

This week's show starts of with Rachel telling us about the Door to Hell. Seems like a fitting topic as we approach Halloween. But what is it? The Door to Hell is also known as the Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan. It is a pit of fire that has burned for perhaps 50 years. It is the result of a drilling project gone horribly wrong. It reminds us a bit of the Burning Mountain in Australia from Episode 68 called "Dead Man's Fingers."

Victoria is up next with the strange fish the Arctic Char. We're likely watching speciation take place as this one fish species has an amazing range of sizes and behaviors. Due to the amazing number of "morphs" present, the Arctic Char has been called the "most variable vertebrate on Earth."

Kirk wraps up this week's show with a bizarre creature feature, the Sea Squirt. This strange creature lives a double life and not even Rachel and Victoria suspect that it is actually not an invertebrate.

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The Beetle with a Fake Termite on its Back

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Kirk keeps the Halloween month theme going by talking a bit about Black Cats big and small. What makes them strange? Why do they exist? Why were they the preferred color of cat to have on ships? All questions are answered.

Rachel is up next and she brings us to...the ocean. I know, we're all shocked. This week it is to talk about Sea Urchins. They are truly some of the strangest creatures in the ocean.

Victoria takes us underground into a termite colony to find a strange new Rove Beetle just described by science. It physically mimics the look of a termite by having an entire fake termite puppet on its back.

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Fixing Blindness with a Tooth in the Eye

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Happy October!

We've got quite a show for you this week. Victoria kicks Spooky Month off with the Worm Pearlfish. At first they don't sound too bad but it turns out that they sneak though the anus of sea cucumbers and eat their gonads. Yikes. No thanks.

Kirk keeps the ick going with an absolutely wild story about doctors restoring blind people's vision by putting their tooth in their eye. Say what? It is as weird as it sounds. Warning, this segment contains graphic descriptions of eye surgery and isn't for the squeamish.

Rachel rounds out the show this week by talking about the Club-winged Manakin. This cloud-forest dwelling bird has an amazing call but weirdly they make the sounds with their wings and not their voices.

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Can Plants Hear Insects?

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:02:00 -0500

This week Rachel kicks things off with a discussion of Cloud Forests. This rare habitat is found only in specific parts of the world and many unique plants and animals live there. Okay, so really Rachel is just setting the scene for where next week's strange topic lives.

Victoria is up second and brings us fascinating research. Can plants hear? We've talked about this on the show when Kirk talked about plants hearing running water. This new research suggests that some plants can not only hear insect buzzing but differentiate between species of insects in an attempt to thwart nectar robbers.

Kirk rounds out the show with a wild story about Ghost Sharks. It turns out males have an appendage on their forehead covered in teeth that they use to grip onto females during reproduction. We've long known this but new research reveals that they actually are true teeth that are growing somewhere other than the mouth. It gives us a unique insight into evolution and how structures are repurposed over time.

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Jewelry Poisonous Enough to Kill

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Kirk kicks off this week with predatory fungus that hunts for animals. Say what?

Rachel tells us about the massive northern elephant seal.

Victoria lets us know about the beautiful but incredibly powerfully poisonous rosary pea that is still used for jewelry to this day.

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Robotic Mushrooms!

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 06:45:00 -0500

This week, Victoria takes us to the ocean to learn about a truly bizarre creature, Sea spiders!

Kirk then shares a story about the scientists giving robotic bodies to mushrooms so they can move around.

Finally, Rachel takes us back to the ocean once again to share what makes Bonnethead sharks strange.

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Do Bees Play?

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:30:00 -0500

This week, Rachel starts us off with an interesting question. Can bees play? A team of researchers thinks they can. Find out what happens when they gave them balls of wood.

Kirk then makes us all thirsty with a dive into the roots of Root Beer. From medicinal medicine to soft drink, Kirk traces the history of this drink and the many natural ingredients that make it up.

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The Stone Cold Steve Austin of Wasps

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:30:00 -0500

What a wild show this week. Kirk starts things off with a listener submitted story about how researchers created fake fiddler crabs to better understand sexual signaling.

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Our special guest Brett Sieberer then brings us the amazing story of a wasp that can consume enormous amounts of alcohol with seemingly no effects.

Rachel then wraps up the show with a wild mystery in a German aquarium. Something lives there that has never been seen.

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Testing the Frog Glue

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 07:00:00 -0500

What a wild ride this week! Victoria is up first with a bizarre story about how researchers looked into frog glue.

Kirk then builds off last week by talking about the origins of gold in the universe.

Finally, Rachel tells us about the weird history of blood transfusions and how they were initially used to cure syphilis! They are older than you think!

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Pharaoh's Curse Cures Leukemia

Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:30:00 -0500

This week we explore the Pharaoh's tomb with Rachel and possibly discover the cause of the Curse of the Pharaoh. What's more, can it cure cancer? Rachel takes a look at Aspergillus fungus, how it causes disease but also has been used in experiments to cure Leukemia.

Victoria is up next with a fascinating look at how spiders might be manipulating the flashing of fireflies in order to attract more prey. It's brand new research and wild.

Kirk rounds out the show this week with a look at Mt Erebus in Antarctica. Not only is the most active volcano in the southern hemisphere, it has a permanent lava pool surrounded by snow and rains gold on Antarctica. This is a bizarre volcano.

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Milky Way Migrating Moths

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Kirk kicks off this week's show with the amazing migration skills of the Bogong Moth. They are the first ever recorded invertebrate that uses celestial navigation for long-distance migration wayfinding.

Rachel then tells us all about the Bluntnose Six-gilled Shark. This amazing creature gives birth to an incredible number of pups.

Victoria rounds out this week's show with the aptly named Sword-billed Hummingbird and some of the amazing and strange adaptations it has to survive.

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The Dodo!

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 04:30:00 -0500

This week, Kirk is back and the crew pulled together another great show. Victoria kicks things off with a creature feature on an animal we can't believe it took this long to discuss, the Dodo!

Kirk, fresh from vacation spins a tale taking us back thousands of years to the eruption of Thera/Santorini in 1618 BCE and how it may have lead to the collapse of a dynasty in China.

Rachel rounds out this week with spiders, so...many...spiders. Not only that, these spiders feed themselves to their young to keep the colony going. It's a fascinating look into yet another example of nature not fitting into our preconceived boxes.

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This Episode Stinks (it's about skunks)

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Hello Everyone, time for another weekly dose of weird. This week, Victoria kicks things off with a story about Brown-headed cowbirds and their amazing nesting strategy of being nest parasitizers.

Rachel then stinks up the place with a deep dive on those cuddly creatures...skunks.

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Earth Had Rings Like Saturn?

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 04:30:00 -0500

This week we've got two amazing stories that couldn't be more different. Rachel spins a tale that spans millions of years. Could the explosion of life during the Ordovician have been the result of meteor impacts? Could those meteors have come from a time when Earth had rings like Saturn? She explores this possibility this week!

Victoria is up next and scoops Rachel with a topic off her secret list. This week she present to you the mysterious and strange Blue Sea Dragons. Earth is full of strange creatures. We're happy to bring them to you each and every week.

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The Bird with a Skull Crushing Kick

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Victoria kicks off the show this week with yet another flying animal that usually can't fly. She's brought us flying snakes and flying spiders, how about flying fish?

Kirk takes us on a winding journey connecting the dots over millions of years of history to connect a high-school sex-ed class with Sue the T-rex and an ancient protozoan disease.

Rachel rounds out the show with the Secretary Bird. An amazing raptor that kills not with talons but with one of the most powerful kicks in the animal kingdom. Beware your skull being crushed.

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The Toad with Eyes in its Mouth

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Rachel brings us the beautiful and disgusting Bradford pear this week. Thank you?

Victoria takes us deep underground to discover mind-blowingly large gypsum crystals discovered deep in the earth in Mexico.

Kirk round out this week's show with the strange mystery of a toad with eyes in mouth.

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Stinking Smut of Rye

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Kirk starts off the show with the mysterious story of the Basra Grain Poisoning of 1971, a terrible story of the dangers of methylmercury.

Rachel is up next with the amazing story of Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest freshwater lake on Earth.

Victoria rounds out this week's show by talking about animal asymmetry. Turns out, not all animals are symmetrical and they can get real weird.

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A Pooper Scooper Claw

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Victoria starts us off with a wealth of information about hermit crabs and the strange process of shell swapping.

Kirk brings us the strange tale of Conan the Bacterium, a bacterium that can withstand amazing amounts of radiation and survive.

Rachel wraps us up this week with...wait for it...even MORE facts about dandelions.

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What's So Strange About Dandelions?

Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:30:00 -0500

What's so strange about Dandelions? That's a good question and Rachel gets to the bottom of it.

Victoria is up next with some wild research into just how large of an object a snake can swallow.

Kirk rounds out this week's show with a creature feature about a strange mole-like creature in Europe that is a relic of the past.

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Planets Made of Diamonds

Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Kirk brings the strange tale of the King's Lomatia, quite possibly the oldest living plant on Earth. It is a strange tree that has lost the ability to sexually reproduce and yet...it keeps on living for thousands of years.

Rachel has a doozy of a story about a man who let himself be bitten by venomous snakes over and over and over. Now he's helping scientists make a better anti-venom.

Victoria travels to the stars to tell us about planets made of diamonds.

We really do cover it all this week!

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The Fastest Jaws on Earth

Wed, 28 May 2025 04:30:00 -0500

This week, Victoria starts us off with a discussion probably not suitable for all ages by talking about the massive penis of the Serotine Bat. It's a lot to take in.

Kirk then shares the remarkable story of a palm tree that both flowers and fruits completely underground.

Rachel rounds out this week's show talking about the fastest moving predatory appendage in the animal kingdom. The jaws of the Trap Jaw ant closes at 143 mph.

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Giant Bird Eating Spiders

Wed, 21 May 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Rachel kicks off this week show with the strange colonial creatures of the sea known as "By the Wind Sailors."

Victoria makes us all a bit uncomfortable talking about giant bird-eating spiders.

Kirk encourages us to smack rocks with hammers as he explains the mysterious Ringing Rocks of Pennsylvania.

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Which Animal Smells like Buttered Popcorn?

Wed, 14 May 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Kirk tells us about how scientists finally discovered the identity of a frog that had puzzled the scientific community for 80 years.

Rachel tells us all about the Binturong, the bizarre bearcat that smells like buttered popcorn.

In a salute to Mother's Day, Victoria tells us about the truly strange Sea Hares and her mom's research connection to them.

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The Bone Collector Moth

Wed, 07 May 2025 04:30:00 -0500

Anyone fancy a yawn? Victoria did some investigation into the strange phenomenon of social yawning. Are yawns really contagious?

Kirk then brings us the story of the Bone Collector Moth. When it is a caterpillar, it creates a disguise by gluing dead bodies to itself. Yikes.

Rachel rounds out the show with brand new research showing that sharks can make sounds!

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