Creature Feature

Peer Reviewing Animal Crossing!

04.22.2020 - By iHeartPodcastsPlay

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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: 

GIANT GOLDFISH

Pharyngeal/Throat Teeth! Yikes! 

Bitterlings Spawning Using a Mussel (video)

Coconut Octopus (Video)! 

Spider Shooting Urticating Hairs

Mantis Attacking Hummingbird Video (WARNING: anti-bird content. Hummingbird does get saved in the end though). 

A Nice Detailed Coprolite (Fossilized Dung!) 

Dunkleosteus Fossil

Megacerops Reconstruction

Diplodocus's Ridiculous Proportions

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