Strange Animals Podcast

A podcast about living, extinct, and imaginary animals!

Natural Sciences Science Life Sciences

Update frequency: every 6 days
Average duration: 12 minutes
Episodes: 313
Years Active: 2020 - 2025

Episode 213: More Honeybees, But Stingless

Thanks to Nicholas for this week's suggestion! Let's learn about the Australian stingless bee and its relatives!

Listen to BewilderBeasts if you want more fun, family-friendly animal facts!

Further…

00:12:03 | Mon 01 Mar 2021

Episode 212: The River of Giants

Thanks to Pranav for his suggestion! Let's find out what the river of giants was and what lived there!

Further reading:

King of the River of Giants

Spinosaurus was a swimming dinosaur and it swam …

00:15:38 | Mon 22 Feb 2021

Episode 211: The Magnificent Fin Whale

This week let's venture into the ocean and learn about the fin whale!

Further reading:

The songs of fin whales offer new avenue for seismic studies of the oceanic crust

Fin whales' big gulp

The f…

00:12:30 | Mon 15 Feb 2021

Episode 210: The Mysterious Lightbulb Lizard

Does the Shreve's lightbulb lizard really emit light? (Hint: sort of.) Let's find out!

Further reading:

The Lightbulb Lizard of Benjamin Shreve

Shreve's lightbulb lizard, looking pretty ordinary r…

00:10:19 | Mon 08 Feb 2021

Episode 209: Animals Discovered in 2020

Here's a 2020 retrospective episode that looks at the bright side of the year! Thanks to Page for the suggestion! Let's learn about some animals discovered in 2020 (mostly).

Further reading:

Watch …

00:18:31 | Mon 01 Feb 2021

Episode 208: The Happiest Animals in Australia

Thanks to Phoebe for suggesting the quokka and the wombat, two of the cutest, happiest-looking animals in Australia!

Further Reading:

Viral stories of wombats sheltering other animals from the bush…

00:16:50 | Mon 25 Jan 2021

Episode 207: The Dire Wolf!

This week we're on the cutting edge of science, learning about the brand new genetic study of dire wolves that rearranges everything we know about the dire wolf and other canids! Also, a bonus turtle…

00:09:58 | Mon 18 Jan 2021

Episode 206: The Bowerbird and the Victoria Crowned Pigeon

This week let's learn about two birds of New Guinea, bowerbirds and the Victoria crowned pigeon! Both are beautiful and the bowerbird is kind of weird. Thanks to M Is for Awesome for the suggestion!

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00:15:10 | Mon 11 Jan 2021

Episode 205: Sea Scorpions and the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction Event

Happy new year! This week we'll learn about the oldest mass extinction event, some 450 million years ago, and also sea scorpions.

Further reading:

Coming up for air: Extinct sea scorpions could bre…

00:16:47 | Mon 04 Jan 2021

Episode 204: Frogs of Many Cheery Colors

Let's finish off a very weird year and welcome in the new year with a basket of colorful frogs!

The northern leopard frog comes in many color morphs, all of them pretty:

The starry dwarf frog i…

00:15:38 | Mon 28 Dec 2020

Episode 203: Swarms!

Thanks to Nicholas and Juergen for their suggestions! Let's learn about some insects that migrate and swarm!

Further listening:

The Animal Migrations Patreon episode (it's unlocked so anyone can li…

00:21:17 | Mon 21 Dec 2020

Episode 202: Terror Birds and Pseudotooth Birds

Let's find out about some gigantic birds this week! Thanks to Pranav and Richard for the suggestions!

Further reading:

Exceptionally preserved fossil gives voice to ancient terror bird

Antarctica …

00:17:12 | Mon 14 Dec 2020

Episode 201: The African Grey Parrot and More Mantises

This week we'll learn about a fascinating parrot and some more weird praying mantises! Thanks to Page and Viola for the suggestions!

Further watching:

Nova Science Now: Irene Pepperberg and Alex

A…

00:15:07 | Mon 07 Dec 2020

Episode 200: Elephants

This week we're going to learn about elephants! Thanks to Damian, Pranav, and Richard from NC for the suggestions!

Further Reading:

Dwarf Elephant Facts and Figures

An Asian elephant (left) and an…

00:22:56 | Mon 30 Nov 2020

Episode 199: Carnivorous Sponges!

Thanks to Lorenzo for this week's topic, carnivorous sponges! How can a sponge catch and eat animals? What is its connection to the mystery of the Eltanin Antenna? Let's find out!

Further reading/wa…

00:14:09 | Mon 23 Nov 2020

Episode 198: Pop Goes the Mustelid

Let's learn about a whole lot of mustelids, including some otters, weasels, and their relations and ancestors! Thanks to Jacob for the suggestion!

Further reading:

Weasels in Stone: Mustelid Evolut…

00:22:30 | Mon 16 Nov 2020

Episode 197: Titanoboa!

Thanks to Pranav for this week's suggestion, Titanoboa, the biggest snake that ever lived!

Parts of this episode come from an old Patreon episode about super-gigantic snakes, which is unlocked and y…

00:09:39 | Mon 09 Nov 2020

Episode 196: Many Monkeys

Thanks to Nick and Richard from NC for their suggestions this week! Let's learn about A BUNCH OF MONKEYS!

Further reading:

How we solved the Green monkey mystery--and found an important clue to Bro…

00:18:39 | Mon 02 Nov 2020

Episode 195: Black Dogs and Mystery Canids

It's almost Halloween!! Our Halloween episode this year is all about some of the legends of ghostly black dogs in the UK and some other parts of the world, as well as some canid mysteries we haven't …

00:28:39 | Mon 26 Oct 2020

Episode 194: The Dover Demon

It's almost Halloween, and time for another spooky episode! Thanks to Pranav for the suggestion!

You still have time to enter the book giveaway contest, deadline October 31, 2020 at midnight! Detail…

00:31:28 | Mon 19 Oct 2020

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