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When you think metamorphosis, you might think a beautiful butterfly coming out of its cocoon. However, lots of things metamorphose in much less graceful, much more sticky, gooey, unsettling, and potentially dangerous ways!
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]
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/uoc-sbb010308.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4460030.stm
Kind of gross but very cool, highly recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCo2uCLXvhk
[Fact Off]
Cryptometamorphosis:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/science/snail-metamorphosis.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.1099#sec-3
Figure from paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/attachment/12748a2e-c968-4fff-912a-9f9cd2c3d514/rspb20181099f01.gif
Wax moths and plastic:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/25/525447206/a-worm-may-hold-the-key-to-biodegrading-plastic
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28441558
[Ask the Science Couch]
Grasshoppers/locusts:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/57104/whats-difference-between-grasshoppers-and-locusts
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-grasshoppers-go-bibl/
(includes picture) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/01/serotonin-makes-locusts-swarm
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5703/1881
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When you think metamorphosis, you might think a beautiful butterfly coming out of its cocoon. However, lots of things metamorphose in much less graceful, much more sticky, gooey, unsettling, and potentially dangerous ways!
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]
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/uoc-sbb010308.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4460030.stm
Kind of gross but very cool, highly recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCo2uCLXvhk
[Fact Off]
Cryptometamorphosis:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/science/snail-metamorphosis.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.1099#sec-3
Figure from paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/attachment/12748a2e-c968-4fff-912a-9f9cd2c3d514/rspb20181099f01.gif
Wax moths and plastic:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/25/525447206/a-worm-may-hold-the-key-to-biodegrading-plastic
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28441558
[Ask the Science Couch]
Grasshoppers/locusts:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/57104/whats-difference-between-grasshoppers-and-locusts
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-grasshoppers-go-bibl/
(includes picture) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/01/serotonin-makes-locusts-swarm
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5703/1881
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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