Strange things can be found in lakes — animals that have turned to stone, or enormous hidden pockets of carbon dioxide. In this episode, Ash reveals the science behind three unusual lakes. In our SNPit, Rosie discusses some new research that shows how identical twins are not really identical.

Episode sources:

• Defusing Africa’s Killer Lakes
• The Lake Nyos Incident Is One Of History's Spookiest And Deadliest Disasters
• This Alkaline African Lake Turns Animals into Stone
• Lake That Turns Animals to Stone? Not Quite
• DNA Study Deepens Mystery of Lake Full of Skeletons
• The Skeletons at the Lake
• Identical Twins Are Not So Identical, Study Suggests
• Differences Between Germline Genomes of Monozygotic Twins

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Music:

AhDah Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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