The episode should really be called "The One Where Rachel and Todd's heads exploded."

Science is wild and nature is crazy, get ready to have your mind blown by a recent discovery. This podcast covers female barklice genitalia and it's a doozy. In an effort to cut down on spoilers, we won't reveal much else about this topic in the show notes but pop over to our website for more info.

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In the depths of the Bermuda Triangle, an ancient call to the void echoes throughout America and Europe. Sexless eels feel it. They transform, and they vanish. Rachel dives into the sex life of freshwater eels in this episode of Naughty Nature, and things get a bit slippery. We'll never see eels the same way again.

RadioLab's Silky Love: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/silky-love

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It's Todd's week! With such a short life, a lot is at stake for fruit fly bachelors. Maybe that explains their drinking habits, which even the children indulge in. Todd takes us through why fruit flies love red lights and red wine, and why you might want to rethink tolerating them around your kitchen.

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Just when you thought bed bugs couldn't get creepier, Lyndzee Rhine takes us down a rabbit hole of traumatic, violent sex. This sexual arms race involves infections, incest, sexually reproductive male-on-male stabbings, and (of course) stabby penises. Give your hard-working house spider a grateful thumbs up and buckle up for bed bugs.

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When getting to the finish line matters most, sometimes sperm cooperate to make sure the winning guy is from their swim team. Rachel Roth takes a dive into sperm cooperation and sperm altruism in the animal world.

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