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SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear continues! This week, Stefan is confronted by his fear of sharks! Thrill as we weave a tale of nigh-immortal sharks! Feel the chills run down your spine as you learn about how weird shark penises are! Try not to scream when you hear about Sharkarado, the Shark Colorado! This episode... might be too scary!!!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Still Shark Eggs
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0052551
Tiger Shark Siblings
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/baby-sand-tiger-sharks-devour-their-siblings-while-still-in-the-womb-46192985/
Thermal Vents
https://www.livescience.com/61699-skates-eggs-thermal-vents.html
[Fact Off]
White Shark Café
https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/voyage-white-shark-cafe/#data
http://whitesharkcafe.org/media/photos-videos
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/28/613394086/great-white-sharks-have-a-secret-cafe-and-they-led-scientists-right-to-it
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Mysterious-great-white-shark-lair-discovered-in-13234068.php
https://www.nature.com/articles/415035b
Greenland sharks eating seals
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098112001657?via%3Dihub
https://animals.mom.me/seals-sleep-4736.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/6/120626-greenland-sharks-seals-sleeping-animals-science/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Intromittent organs/penises
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/56/4/705/2198314
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/06/scienceshot-birds-disappearing-penis
Shark claspers
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-shark-penises-evolved
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7698
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/clasper
[Butt One More Thing]
Coprolite shark tooth
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/fossils/that-time-a-prehistoric-shark-took-a-bite-out-of-a-turd/
4.9
14881,488 ratings
SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear continues! This week, Stefan is confronted by his fear of sharks! Thrill as we weave a tale of nigh-immortal sharks! Feel the chills run down your spine as you learn about how weird shark penises are! Try not to scream when you hear about Sharkarado, the Shark Colorado! This episode... might be too scary!!!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Still Shark Eggs
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0052551
Tiger Shark Siblings
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/baby-sand-tiger-sharks-devour-their-siblings-while-still-in-the-womb-46192985/
Thermal Vents
https://www.livescience.com/61699-skates-eggs-thermal-vents.html
[Fact Off]
White Shark Café
https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/voyage-white-shark-cafe/#data
http://whitesharkcafe.org/media/photos-videos
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/28/613394086/great-white-sharks-have-a-secret-cafe-and-they-led-scientists-right-to-it
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Mysterious-great-white-shark-lair-discovered-in-13234068.php
https://www.nature.com/articles/415035b
Greenland sharks eating seals
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098112001657?via%3Dihub
https://animals.mom.me/seals-sleep-4736.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/6/120626-greenland-sharks-seals-sleeping-animals-science/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Intromittent organs/penises
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/56/4/705/2198314
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/06/scienceshot-birds-disappearing-penis
Shark claspers
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-shark-penises-evolved
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7698
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/clasper
[Butt One More Thing]
Coprolite shark tooth
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/fossils/that-time-a-prehistoric-shark-took-a-bite-out-of-a-turd/
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