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 155: Extreme Sexual Dimorphism

Many animals have differences between males and females, but some species have EXTREME differences!

The elephant seal male and female are very different sizes:

The huia female (bottom) had a beak…

00:17:29 | Mon 20 Jan 2020

Episode 154: Some Australian animals and how to help

This week let's learn about some lesser-known Australian animals. A heat wave and dry conditions have led to many terrible bush fires in Australia, with many animals and people left hurt, killed, and…

00:15:02 | Mon 13 Jan 2020

Episode 153: The White River Monster

Let's start out the new year with a bona fide mystery animal, the White River Monster from Arkansas! Is it a real animal? If so, is it a known animal or something new to science? If it's a known anim…

00:17:58 | Mon 06 Jan 2020

Episode 152: The Freshwater Seahorse and Other Mystery Water Animals

This week let's look at some (mostly) smaller mystery animals associated with water! Thanks to Richard J., Janice, and Simon for the suggestions!

Further reading:

What Was the Montauk Monster?

The…

00:15:38 | Mon 30 Dec 2019

Episode 151: Fossils with other fossils inside

Thanks to Pranav who suggested this week's amazing topic, animals that fossilized with the remains of their last meal inside!

Indrasaurus with a lizard inside. Yum!

Baryonyx:

Rhamphorhynchus (…

00:15:58 | Mon 23 Dec 2019

Episode 150: Hamsters, Gerbils, and Ferrets

This week we venture into the land of CUTE to learn about hamsters, ferrets, and some other small domesticated animals. Thanks to Kim and the Angel City Ferret Club for the suggestions!

Hamsters are…

00:15:57 | Mon 16 Dec 2019

Episode 149: A Zebra with SPOTS

SOMEONE forgot their flash drive at work, so here's a short but hopefully interesting episode about a mystery animal, a zebra with spots instead of stripes!

Ordinary zebras:

A SPOTTED ZEBRA?!??

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00:07:53 | Mon 09 Dec 2019

Episode 148: Gastric Brooding and Other Frogs

Thanks for Merike for suggesting the gastric brooding frog and to Hally for suggesting newly-discovered frogs!!

The Gastric brooding frog:

Darwin's frog, round boi:

The Surinam toad carries he…

00:12:59 | Mon 02 Dec 2019

Episode 147: Snails and the Gooseneck Barnacle

Thanks to Kim and Richard E. this week for two awesome suggestions! We're going to learn about land snails and about the gooseneck barnacle!

Some baby snails and a mama snail, or at least an adult s…

00:14:36 | Mon 25 Nov 2019

Episode 146: Three strange animals

The next few weeks will be all listener suggestions! This week, Dylan and Genevieve of What Are You? Podcast request a strange fish, Kim suggests a strange invertebrate, and Callum suggests a strange…

00:15:02 | Mon 18 Nov 2019

Episode 145: The Cheetah

This week is another suggestion from Wyatt, all about the cheetah!

The cheetah moves fast and can zigzag at the same time:

Baby cheetahs have silvery manes on their backs:

Cheetahs and dogs ge…

00:13:15 | Mon 11 Nov 2019

Episode 144: Strange Bird Sounds

This week we're going to learn not about strange birds, but about strange sounds some birds make. Thanks to Sam for the suggestion, and thanks to Llewelly and Leo for suggesting two of the birds we f…

00:09:53 | Mon 04 Nov 2019

Episode 143: Rats, Giant Rats, and Rat Kings

It's almost Halloween!! We've got a great episode this week about rats--ordinary rats, giant rats, and the strange phenomenon called the rat king.

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00:18:05 | Mon 28 Oct 2019

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