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 193: Beebe’s Mystery Deep-Sea Fish

This week we'll learn about five mystery fish that William Beebe spotted from his bathysphere in the early 1930s...and which have never been seen again. Thanks to Page for suggesting deep-sea fish!

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00:22:24 | Mon 12 Oct 2020

Episode 192: Ghostly Animals

Let's start off October with a spooky episode about some ghost animals--real ones, and some ghost stories featuring animals!

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Further reading:

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00:18:36 | Mon 05 Oct 2020

Episode 191: Masters of Disguise!

Thanks to Nicholas and Pranav for their suggestions which led to this episode about animals that are especially good at disguising themselves!

If you'd like to listen to the original Patreon episode…

00:21:06 | Mon 28 Sep 2020

Episode 190: The Northern Gannet and Plotopterids

Thanks to Lorenzo for suggesting the northern gannet this week! We'll also learn about an extinct ancestor of the gannet, called plotopterids!

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00:12:33 | Mon 21 Sep 2020

Episode 189: The Handfish and the Lumpsucker

This week we have two more listener suggestions, so thanks to Rosy and Simon! They both suggested small but intensely interesting fish!

Further reading:

The Handfish Conservation Project - Name a F…

00:10:32 | Mon 14 Sep 2020

BONUS! All about animal poop

BONUS TIME!

A dung beetle rolling some poop:

Butterflies on poop:

Wombat poop is cubes!

Show transcript:

Welcome to a bonus episode made out of a bonus episode. Since this week’s topic is …

00:10:54 | Mon 07 Sep 2020

Episode 188: The Hyena and Hyaenodon

This week we're going to learn about hyenas and the not-related-but-similarly-named hyaenodon! BUT we've got a PARENT WARNING WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP *klaxon sounds, red lights flash*

Parents and others w…

00:13:24 | Mon 07 Sep 2020

Episode 187: The Praying Mantis and the Cockroach

We finish off Invertebrate August in style, with great suggestions from Rosy and Kim!

Also, I was a guest on The Flopcast last week if you want to hear me talking about DragonCon and birding with my…

00:14:58 | Mon 31 Aug 2020

Episode 186: Velvet Animals

This week's episode is about some invertebrates who look like they're made of velvet! Thanks to Rosy and Simon for their suggestions!

Further reading:

Red Velvet Mite

Chigger Bites

Structure and …

00:21:21 | Mon 24 Aug 2020

Episode 185: Ice Worms, Army Ants, and Other Strange Invertebrates!

Let's learn about some weird insects this week! Thanks to Llewelly for suggesting army ants!

Further reading:

If you're interested in the magazine Flying Snake, I recommend it! You can order online…

00:24:42 | Mon 17 Aug 2020

Episode 184: The Mosquito!

Thanks to Kaiden who suggested we learn about mosquitoes this week! You know what eats a lot of mosquitoes? Bats! If you don't already listen to the excellent podcast Varmints!, jump on over to it to…

00:14:12 | Mon 10 Aug 2020

Episode 183: BEES! AKA honey and “honey”

Thanks to Linnea for suggesting bees! Obviously we can't learn about ALL 20,000 bee species in this episode, but we'll learn about the honeybee and some other interesting bees!

Further reading:

Bee…

00:17:40 | Mon 03 Aug 2020

Episode 182: The Coconut Crab and Friends

Join us this week for some interesting crabs! Thanks to Charles for suggesting the aethra crab!

Aethra crabs look like little rocks, although some people (who must be REALLY hungry) think they look …

00:15:55 | Mon 27 Jul 2020

Episode 181: Updates 3 and a lake monster!

It's our annual updates and corrections episode, with a fun mystery animal at the end!

Thanks to everyone who contributed, including Bob, Richard J. who is my brother, Richard J. who isn't my brothe…

00:22:40 | Mon 20 Jul 2020

Episode 180: Synchronous Fireflies

Thanks to Adam for the great suggestion of synchronous fireflies! Let's learn about lightning bugs (or fireflies) in general, and in particular the famous synchronous fireflies!

Further reading:

Ho…

00:15:38 | Mon 13 Jul 2020

Episode 179: Lost and Found Animals

This week let's learn about some animals that were discovered by science, then not seen again and presumed extinct...until they turned up again, safe and sound!

Further reading:

A nose-horned drago…

00:13:25 | Mon 06 Jul 2020

Episode 178: The Koolakamba

Let's learn about another mystery ape, the koolakamba (also spelled kooloo-kamba or other variations)!

Further reading:

Between the Gorilla and the Chimpanzee

The Yaounde Zoo mystery ape and the s…

00:13:46 | Mon 29 Jun 2020

Episode 177: The Mush-khush-shu, AKA the Sirrush

This week we'll look at an ancient mystery from the Middle East, a mythological dragon-like animal called the Mush-khush-shu, popularly known as the sirrush. Thanks to Richard J. for the suggestion!

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00:14:39 | Mon 22 Jun 2020

Episode 176: More Globsters and Horrible Carcasses

We have more mystery animals this week, horrible carcasses that have washed ashore and are hard to identify! It's a sequel to our popular Globsters episode, episode 87. None of these are actual myste…

00:13:01 | Mon 15 Jun 2020

Episode 175: Three Small Mystery Animals

This week we've got three more mystery animals, but they're small instead of gigantic! Also, I didn't say anything about it in the episode, but Black lives matter. Stay safe and fight for justice, ev…

00:12:02 | Mon 08 Jun 2020

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