Today on the show, we review the Animal Crossing game from a scientific perspective. We’ll be fact-checking some Blathers facts about evolutionary biology! Can goldfish grow bigger than a foot? Do they have teeth in their throats? Can tarantulas shoot butt hair at you? Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: what is Blathers the owl hiding? We attempt to answer all these questions with our guests Maggie Mae Fisher and Adam Ganser.

Footnotes: 

1. GIANT GOLDFISH
2. Pharyngeal/Throat Teeth! Yikes! 
3. Bitterlings Spawning Using a Mussel (video)
4. Coconut Octopus (Video)! 
5. Spider Shooting Urticating Hairs
6. Mantis Attacking Hummingbird Video (WARNING: anti-bird content. Hummingbird does get saved in the end though). 
7. A Nice Detailed Coprolite (Fossilized Dung!) 
8. Dunkleosteus Fossil
9. Megacerops Reconstruction
10. Diplodocus's Ridiculous Proportions
11. We got Creature Feature T-Shirts! 

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