Creature Feature

We're talking about animals who can rebuild themselves like some kind of T-1000 with Dave Schilling! Self-decapitation, magical dolphin healing, and the incredible regeneration that’s happening inside our very own bodies!

Footnotes: 

1. Self-decapitating sea slug! 
2. Salamander limb regeneration! 

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I answer your questions about everything from penis bones to the origins of life

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From mathematical bee sex, to baby animals who are cute little calculators, to the way math can produce some of the most beautiful living works of art in the natural kingdom, these word problems are no problem at all! Join us as we explore mathanimals with Daniel Whiteson!

Footnotes:

1. Bee sex diagram (with the help of pokemon)
2. Zebrafish!

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Pallavi Gunalan and I are going to check out some animals that you typically would think of as being small, but sometimes get super large and very hunky chunky! From moths to snails to frogs and pollywogs, these animals will give you a HUGE surprise!

Footnotes:

1. Hercules moth!
2. Hercules moth caterpillar
3. Atlas moth with snake head wingtips
4. Giant African land snail 
5. Black Sea Hare
6. Goliath frog
7. Dart the bullfrog pollywog
8. Dart, a banana, and some beer
9. Sawfish rostrum sword!

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We’re getting to know some of the most fascinating noses in the animal kingdom with Hana Michels and Dave Bell! From a fantastical cryptid, to the real-life incredible noses that you couldn’t make up! Discover this and more as we answer the age-old question: why are bats? 

Footnotes:

1. Nosewalker cryptid!
2. A very "convincing" taxidermy
3. Another interesting "rhinograde"
4. Not quite factual taxidermy!
5. Unicornfish!
6. How handsome
7. Homer J. Simpson fish
8. Sawfish!
9. Cutie vampire bat
10. Horseshoe bat
11. Swordnose bat! 
12. Hammerhead bat!

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We’re talking about the biggest daredevils with Alex Schmidt. When it comes to derrieres, the pop stars of posteriors, the analysts of… well, you know. How do you survive a trip through a frog? What are some unconventional uses for a sea cucumber? And do you really need a butt?

Footnotes: 

1. Water scavenger beetles 
2. The daring Houdini act of the water scavenger beetle
3. The pearlfish at home sweet home 
4. Your close and personal friend, demodex folliculorum!
5. Gold speckled flatworm
6. A comb jelly!

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Today on the show we’re gonna take a BITE out of TROGLOBITES! What happens deep in the cold, dark depths of caves? How does anything stay alive down there? What happens when you don’t need eyes? Find out with guest, Michael Swaim.

Footnotes:

1. Mexican blind cavefish!
2. Cave wolf spider!
3. Texas blind salamander! 
4. THE OLM! Aka "Human fish..." 
5. Cave leeches, oh dear...
6. White cave velvet worm :3 
7. All Yesterdays book!

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From the shiny and splendiferous scale worms of the deep, to scuba diving lizards, these animals all have one thing in common: they are 100% glam. Join us as we explore these extravagant trend setters with special guest Danl Goodman.

Footnotes: 

1. Elvis worm! 
2. Elvis worms fighting, oh no! 
3. Scale worm jaws, extra oh no! 
4. Living beetle jewelry 
5. Shiny diving lizards, oh my!
6. Shiny diving lizards caught on video! 

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We’re talking all things Jurassic, as we fact check Jurassic Park! Was John Hammond in over his head? Could life uuuuuuuuh find a way? And are T-Rexes eyesight REALLY based on movement? We’re digging up dinos and the truth with Kay B!

Footnotes:

1. Baby T-Rex was a cutie pie!
2. Yutyrannus was a monstrous chicken
3. More art of yutyrannus
4. Deinocheirus: world's most terrifying muppet? 
5. Deinocheirus, like Big Bird and snuffleupagus had a baby
6. Why is this feathery monstrosity not in movies??? 

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