Darwin's Deviations

As a giant THANK YOU to our fans for helping us reach over 900 plays......we're taking a break! Yaaaaay. Bye :)

Check out Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere (Official Video), which inspired the last bit!

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In a world of everlasting darkness, where predators lurk in every dark corner…though all of the surroundings are engulfed in eternal shade…there must rise a savior, an eternal illuminator, a bearer of enlightenment, the gateway to the transcendental gleam…because, the only opposition to the abyssal twilight,  is the luminosity within.

The Haven of the Abyssal Cnidaria want YOU! Distinguish the light from within the darkness of your being! May Eternally Light Thy Flashy!

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SOURCES:

Wikipedia: Crossota millsae

Wikipedia: Vampyrocrossota

Wikipedia: Bioluminescence

Bizarre jellyfish is spotted in the depths of the Mariana Trench:  Experts believe the orb-like creature may be an entirely new species

Deep-Sea Researchers Spot a Mysterious Jellyfish Near The Mariana Trench

This Deep-Sea Jellyfish Is Beyond Belief

Mysterious 'Cosmic' Jellyfish Spotted in Remote Ocean Depths

This Deep Sea Jellyfish Looks Like It Came From Outer Space

Scientists call this a 'psychedelic Medusa'

Ocean Explorer: Dive 8: Psychedelic Medusa

How this jellyfish earned the nickname 'Psychedelic Medusa'

YouTube: Jellyfish: 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas

YouTube: NOAA live April 24 Stunningly beautiful jellyfish!

Thuesen, Erik. (2003). Crossota millsae (Cnidaria: Trachymedusae: Rhopalonematidae), a new species of viviparous hydromedusa from the deep sea off California and Hawaii. Magnolia Press Zootaxa. 309. 1-12. 10.11646/zootaxa.309.1.1. 

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode is PACKED with colorful vocabulary! Most would define these as sexually explicit words, which does not make sense, because these words are referring to organs used for nursing (which are not used for sex!). However, we do use sexually explicit language when referring to the male body, because men have it coming! Oops

In today's episode... Me, Myself and YVA toss around some wacky theories! Were the Ediacaran seas packed with floating boobs? Are these boobs remnants of our long-lost dolphin overlords? Have geologists been covering up the existence of prehistoric boobies for decades? And the most wacky, insane theory or all...should we stop sexualizing non-sexual body parts and allow a whole gender to freely inhabit the physical vessels they are born with? Oh, how shocking! They've been trying to cover 'em up for centuries. We're exposing them! :)

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A LOT of Wikipedia articles I cannot possibly list

Urban Thesaurus - Slang words for Breasts

The science of why human breasts are so big

Evolution of Life - The Ediacaran: Cyclomedusa

Wei-guo, Sun. “Precambrian medusoids: The Cyclomedusa plexus and Cyclomedusa-like pseudofossils.” Precambrian Research 31 (1986): 325-360.

R. J. F. Jenkins, C. H. Ford & J. G. Gehling (1983) The Ediacara member of the Rawnsley quartzite: The context of the Ediacara assemblage (late precambrian, flinders ranges), Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 30:1-2, 101-119, DOI: 10.1080/00167618308729240

Narbonne, G. (1994). New Ediacaran fossils from the Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 68(3), 411-416. doi:10.1017/S0022336000025816

Crimes, T., A. Insole and B. J. Williams. “A rigid-bodied Ediacaran Biota from Upper Cambrian strata in Co. Wexford, Eire.” Geological Journal 30 (1995): 89-109.

McMenamin, Mark. (1986). The Garden of Ediacara. Palaios. 1. 178. 10.2307/3514512. 

McMenamin, M.A.S. and McMenamin, D.L.S. (1990) The Emergence of Animals; the Cambrian Breakthrough, Columbia University Press

McMenamin, M. (1998). The Garden of Ediacara. New York: Columbia University Press.

Sick of my show??? Desire more respectable, professional, informative quality content??? Then why not check out the Autopsy. Podcast!!! EveryBODY has a final tale...let's just hope the show never covers mine in the near future!

You can find Autopsy. Podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autopsy/id1537662266

...or visit their website: www.autopsypod.com

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...until I meet my demise, let me at least have some control over how my tale is portrayed! Bonus episode!!! I talk about myself a bit, because I am the most freaky, weird, bizarre and unusual oddity of my show! And I'm a narcissistic, self-absorbed idiot!

Thank you all for helping us reach over 700 listens :)

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Ever bite into a frog and wonder…can it ever bite back…but then realize you are the host of a survival reality show and consume innocent creatures for the shock and amusement of braindead slobs who never leave their home??? Or maybe you’re just French. Well…these frogs can bite your ass!!!…but only if you’re also a frog…and male…I guess they’re picky biters :/ 

Join us as we waste some more of your time reading this text instead of just playing the podcast…because you just need to read this to the very end…even though it is pretty obvious we are writing nonsense, and deliberately annoying you…because you just cannot stop now when you can see you are almost finished…but only because I am too lazy to write another sentence. BECAUSE!

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SOURCES:

Wikipedia: Limnonectes

Do Frogs Have Teeth?

The Function of Teeth on the Roof of a Frog's Mouth

Frogs Evolve Teeth - Again

Understanding Arachibutyrophobia

Frog ancestors devoured prey with thousands of hooked teeth

Bird-Eating Fanged Frog Found in Greater Mekong

The secret life of a fanged frog with an enormous head

"Vampire Flying Frog" Found; Tadpoles Have Black Fangs

Scientists discover fanged frogs that give birth to tadpoles

Fabrezi, Marissa & Emerson, S.B.. (2003). Parallelism and convergence in anuran fangs. Journal of Zoology. 260. 41-51. 

Paluh, Daniel & Stanley, Edward & Blackburn, David. (2020). Evolution of hyperossification expands skull diversity in frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117. 202000872. 10.1073/pnas.2000872117. 

Iskandar, Djoko T & Evans, Ben & Mcguire, Jimmy. (2014). A Novel Reproductive Mode in Frogs: A New Species of Fanged Frog with Internal Fertilization and Birth of Tadpoles. PloS one. 9. e115884. 10.1371/journal.pone.0115884. 

We bring you our first (and only!) clean, non-explicit episode ever! NO...it is NOT a Christmas episode! 

Furcifer voeltzkowi are sneaky little guys that are not afraid to... die young :( Actually, their survival depends  on it! Join us as we delve into the life of a lizard species which is not new....but was lost to science....so we rediscovered it.....because we destroy so many species each year we are running out of new ones to discover, so science needs to rely on remakes just like Hollywood! But heeey....this one also loooves to pull a fast one on scientists! We also mix in a small dose of non-offensive, totally clean and respectful jokes...just not towards the lizard....cuz its life is too short to be offended by us! :)

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Google Translate voices obtained from....Google Translate...duh!

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SOURCES:

Wikipedia: Voeltzkow's chameleon

Wikipedia: Labord's chameleon

National Geographic: The Search for Lost Species

Global Wildlife Conservation: The Search for Lost Species

Global Wildlife Conservation: Voeltzkow’s Chameleon

Glaw, Frank & Prötzel, David & Eckhardt, Falk & Raharinoro, Njaratiana & Ravelojaona, Rojo & Glaw, Timon & Glaw, Kathrin & Forster, Julia & Vences, Miguel. (2020). Rediscovery, conservation status and genetic relationships of the Malagasy chameleon Furcifer voeltzkowi. Salamandra. 56. 342-354. 

Sentis, Marina & Chang, Yiyin & Scherz, Mark & Prötzel, David & Glaw, Frank. (2018). Rising from the ashes: Resurrection of the Malagasy chameleons Furcifer monoceras and F. Voeltzkowi (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae), based on micro-CT scans and external morphology. Zootaxa. 4483. 549. 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.3.7. 

Karsten, Kris & Andriamandimbiarisoa, Laza & Fox, Stanley & Raxworthy, Christopher. (2008). A unique life history among tetrapods: An annual chameleon living mostly as an egg. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105. 10.1073/pnas.0802468105. 

Bonus episode!!! Thank you all for helping us reach over 500 listens :)

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Dude...I've spent like 10 days creating an awesome intricate 50-minute episode just for you...just listen to it! You really want me to waste another 5 extra minutes writing an episode description? It's about a psychedelic plant, and witches, and there are ghosts and stuff, the episode title says it all. Just click the play button..and remember, NEVER do drugs!...or poison yourself...or others, as you'll see in the episode, being a ghost is even worse than being alive! And dead people cannot provide me views...so I do care :)

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Is this really necessary? This is not an academic lecture..and I mostly talk about things which are myths and speculation. Do science people really want their name associated with my show? I didn't think so!

But heeeey...I did overtly reference one source, so....out of legal obligation, there, enjoy, bla:

Lockie, Andrew (2000). Encyclopedia of Homeopathy (1st ed.). New York: Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 978-0-7566-1871-1.

I copied the citation from Wikipedia, I don't know what edition the book I used is, who cares, it's homeopathy...not very academic LOL

We get abducted by communist aliens hell-bent on getting us drunk, stinky and carried away in useless conversations on weird Balkan alien nonsense. Along the way we sing, dance, roast a lamb and forget about Erica…until we sober up a bit and remember this is another collaborative train wreck episode :( Sorry listeners…as a token of our apology...do you want some garlic?

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Erica for helping narrate our absurd nonsense and being so cool!

Check out their podcast "Just Might Exist" HERE

If you enjoy atrociously pronounced Serbian words, be sure to check out Erica's episode on the Drekavac.

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SOURCES:

Visoki Dečani Fresco UFO

Mothman/Phantom of Ljubovija

Croatian Pag Triangle

Pag UFO Wave

Zagreb 2008 UFO

Rtanj Mountain

Rtanj Doomsday

(NSFW IMAGES OF FAKE ALIEN) Yugoslavian Alien Autopsy 

Autopsy Hoax Reveal

Alien PLASTIC TOY of Niš

Croatian Weird Ancient Skulls

Croatian Alien Head

Belgrade 2020 UFO

Pan Adria UFO Incident (Croatian)

Pan Adria UFO Incident (English)

We get cartoony with imaginary creatures, infectious diseases, and desecrated animal corpses :) Join us as we attempt to profit off of the demise of a sweet little critter, pick on cryptozoologists, taxidermists and....Americans (Oh my! How blasphemous!) and share some useless unscientific and morbid information that is sure to destroy all our chances of collaborating ever again!

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Huge THANK YOU!!! to Lindsey for helping narrate our absurd nonsense and being so cool!

Check out their podcast "Just Might Exist" HERE

If you enjoy hoax animal nonsense, be sure to check out Lindsey's episode on the Missourium.

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SOURCES:

A LOT of Wikipedia articles

City of Douglas Wyoming

NY Times: Douglas Herrick, 82, Dies; Father of West's Jackalope

Jackalopes of Wyoming – Myth or Reality?

Fantastically Wrong: The Disturbing Reality That Spawned the Mythical Jackalope

The World’s Scariest Rabbit Lurks within the Smithsonian’s Collection

Escudero, Clara & Williams, Richard & Timm, Robert & Pérez-Tris, Javier & Benitez, Laura. (2015). A Century of Shope Papillomavirus in Museum Rabbit Specimens. PLoS ONE. 10. e0132172. 10.1371/journal.pone.0132172. 

Zimmer, C. (2011). A planet of viruses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Morrow, William (2013). The Big, Bad Book of Beasts: The World's Most Curious Creatures. ISBN 978-0062087454

Irwin, Ken. (2009). Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference 2008. , ISBN: 978 0 7656 8047 1