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 311: The Mystery Deep-Sea Spider

Thanks to Llewelly for this suggestion, and thanks to Dr. Thomas A. Hegna for providing me with the two papers I reference in this episode!

Images are taken from the papers.

The mystery "spider":

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00:07:53 | Mon 16 Jan 2023

Episode 310: The Crab-Eating Fox

Thanks to Dean for this week's suggestion, the crab-eating fox!

Further reading:

Jaguars could prevent a not-so-great American biotic exchange

The crab-eating fox is not actually a fox:

Show tr…

00:06:05 | Mon 09 Jan 2023

Episode 309: The Red Panda

Thanks to Zola for suggesting this week's topic, the red panda!

Further reading:

Study Reveals Key Differences in Skulls of Red and Giant Panda

A red panda:

A red panda asleep in a tree [photo …

00:09:10 | Mon 02 Jan 2023

Episode 308: Rescuing Stranded Whales

Yay, we're at the end of the year and looking forward to 2023! Boo, I caught covid and I'm still recovering, so here's a repurposed Patreon episode about whale strandings and how people help the whal…

00:10:37 | Mon 26 Dec 2022

Episode 307: Coquí Frogs and Glass Frogs

Thanks to Miranda and Henry for this week's frog suggestions!

Further reading:

Shattering the Glass Frog Ceiling

The Puerto Rican wetland frog, AKA coquí llanero:

The golden coquí in happier ti…

00:10:52 | Mon 19 Dec 2022

Episode 306: Two Million Years Ago in Greenland

This week we're going to learn about a brand new study in Nature about animals and plants that lived in Greenland about two million years ago.

Happy birthday to Dillon!

Further reading:

A 2-millio…

00:12:00 | Mon 12 Dec 2022

Episode 305: The Chamois and the Cave Goat

Thanks to Isaac for suggesting the chamois, our main topic this week!

Further reading:

The chamois in New Zealand

Extinct goat was cold-blooded

Myotragus balearicus: Extinction of mouse-goats

A …

00:08:40 | Mon 05 Dec 2022

Episode 304: Animals of the Paleogene

Thanks to Pranav for suggesting this week's topic, animals of the Paleogene, the period after the Cretaceous! Thanks also to Llewelly for suggesting the horned screamer, now one of my favorite birds.
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00:17:55 | Mon 28 Nov 2022

Episode 303: Weird and Mysterious Animal Sounds

Thanks to Emory for suggesting this week's topic, mysterious animal sounds!

Further reading/watching:

The Story of Elk in the Great Smoky Mountains

Terrifying Sounds in the Forests of the Great Sm…

00:07:48 | Mon 21 Nov 2022

Episode 302: The Coatimundi and a Mysterious Friend

Thanks to Oceana, Leo, and Alexandra for suggesting the coatimundi this week!

Further reading:

Caught red handed: The mystery of an unusual Panamanian plant’s dispersal

The coatimundi has a long t…

00:11:45 | Mon 14 Nov 2022

Episode 301: Hairless Mammals

Thanks to Liesbet for this week's suggestion, about two mammals that have evolved to be hairless!

Happy birthday this week to Declan and Shannon!

The hairless bat has a doglike face and a doglike t…

00:08:25 | Mon 07 Nov 2022

Episode 300: The Loveland Frog

Here it is, our 300th episode! Which just happens to fall on Halloween! We have a spooooooky episode for sure this time, a full five out of five ghosts on our spookiness scale. Beware!!

Don't forget…

00:30:53 | Mon 31 Oct 2022

Episode 299: Entombed in Stone!

This week's episode rates one out of five ghosts on the spookiness scale. It's not too spooky unless the thought of being ENTOMBED IN STONE creeps you out! Which it might, if you are a frog.

Further…

00:11:19 | Mon 24 Oct 2022

Episode 298: The Tantanoola Tiger

This week we're examining the Tantanoola Tiger, a mystery animal that probably wasn't a tiger...but what was it? This episode is rated two ghosts out of five for monster month spookiness! Thanks to K…

00:13:21 | Mon 17 Oct 2022

Episode 297: Dinosaur Mummies

This week we have a two-ghost rating for our episode about dinosaur mummies! It's a little spooky because we talk about mummies, but it's mostly an episode about dinosaurs, which are not spooky.

Fur…

00:15:32 | Mon 10 Oct 2022

Episode 296: The Hide and the Blood-Sucking Blanket

Monster month is upon us, October, where all our episodes are about spooky things! This episode is only a little bit spooky, though. I give it one ghost out of a possible five ghosts on the spooky sc…

00:15:18 | Mon 03 Oct 2022

Episode 295: The Peregrine Falcon

Thanks to Nikita for this week's suggestion that we learn all about the peregrine falcon!

I'll be at the Next Chapter Book Fair in Dalton, Georgia on October 1, 2022! Come say hi!

Further listening…

00:10:29 | Mon 26 Sep 2022

Episode 294: Updates 5 and a New Zealand Parrot!

It's our fifth updates and corrections episode, with some fun information about a New Zealand parrot, suggested by Pranav! Thanks also to Llewelly, Zachary, Nicholas, and Simon who sent in correction…

00:17:34 | Mon 19 Sep 2022

Episode 293: Bat-Winged Dinosaurs and an Actual Bat

We'll have a real episode next week but for now, here are two Patreon episodes smashed together into one!

Happy birthday to Speed!

Further reading:

Yi qi Is Neat But Might Not Have Been the Black …

00:16:20 | Mon 12 Sep 2022

Episode 292: The Kunga

This week let's learn about a mystery that was solved by science!

Happy birthday to Zoe!

Further reading:

Let's all do the kunga!

The kunga, as depicted in a 4500-year-old mosaic:

The Syrian w…

00:07:52 | Mon 05 Sep 2022

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