Strange Animals Podcast
A podcast about living, extinct, and imaginary animals!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 12 minutes
- Episodes
- 313
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 450: Geckos and the Snow Leopard
Thanks for Preston and Pranav for suggesting this week’s topics!
Further reading:
DNA has revealed the origin of this giant ‘mystery’ gecko
Snow Leopards Dispersed Out of Tibetan Plateau Multiple Tim…
Episode 449: The Gloucester Sea Serpent
This is a chapter of the Beyond Bigfoot and Nessie book, which you can buy or request at the library!
Further reading:
Debunking a Great New England Sea Serpent
A narwhal. I use this picture all the …
Episode 448: Tennessee water mysteries
While I’m at Dragon Con, here’s an old Patreon episode about Tennessee water mysteries, including some spooky sightings of what were probably bears, and some mystery fish!
Show transcript:
Welcome to…
Episode 447: So Many Legs!
Thanks to Mila for suggesting one of our topics today!
Further reading:
The mystery of the ‘missing’ giant millipede
Never-before-seen head of prehistoric, car-size ‘millipede’ solves evolutionary my…
Episode 446: Termites
Thanks to Yonatan and Eilee for this week’s suggestion!
Further reading:
Replanted rainforests may benefit from termite transplants
Episode 445: Salinella
It’s a tiny mystery animal!
Further reading:
Salinella – what the crap was it?
Some of Frenzel’s drawings of Salinella:
Show transcript:
Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.
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Episode 444: Diskagma and Horodyskia
It’s Invertebrate August! These creatures are the most invertebrate-y of all!
Further reading:
Horodyskia is among the oldest multicellular macroorganisms, finds study
A painting of …
The Books Have Been Claimed! and a bonus mouse
I just wanted everyone to know that a listener has claimed the books and magazines I offered for giveaway in episode 443. You can also learn about 60 seconds’ worth of information about the African p…
Episode 443: Ant Lions and the Horrible Seal Problem
Thanks to Jayson and warblrwatchr for suggesting this week’s invertebrates!
Further reading:
Parasite of the Day: Orthohalarachne attenuata
Trap-jaw ants jump with their jaws to escape the antlion’s …
Episode 441: Mean Birds
Further reading:
Look, don’t touch: birds with dart frog poison in their feathers found in New Guinea
The hooded pitohui:
The rufo…
Episode 440: Trilobites!
Further reading:
The Largest Trilobites
Stunning 3D images show anatomy of 500 million-year-old Cambrian trilobites entombed in volc…
Episode 439: The Missing Echidna
Further reading:
Found at last: bizarre, egg-laying mammal finally rediscovered after 60 years
A short-beaked echidna…
Episode 438: The Dragon Man Skull
Further reading:
We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s—only nobody knew
The proteome of the …
Episode 437: Updates 8 and the Nutria
Further reading:
An Early Cretaceous Tribosphenic Mammal and Metatherian Evolution
Guam's in…
Episode 436: Red-Eyed Tree Frog
Further reading:
Tadpoles hatch in seconds to escape predator
The colorful red-eyed tree frog [photo by Geoff Gallice]:
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Episode 435: The Narwhal and the Unicorn
Further reading:
Where did the unicorn myth come from?
The narwhal is my favorite whale:
Show transcript:
Welcome…
Episode 434: The Real Life Dragon
Further reading:
Coelurosauravus
New Research Reveals Secrets of First-Ever Gliding Reptile
The modern Draco lizard glides on "w…
Episode 433: Flamingos and Two Weird Friends
Bird sounds taken from the excellent website xeno-canto…
Episode 432: The Fossa and Other Animals of Madagascar
Further reading:
The stories people tell, and how they can contribute to our understanding of megaf…