Episode 23 Visuals: Mucous Grenades & Shrek the Sheep

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The upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana (photo credit: Sean Nash)

More upside-down jellyfish at the Artis Royal Zoo in Amsterdam  (photo credit: Wikimedia user svdmolen)

Shrek the sheep upon discovery

Shrek the sheep at his charity shearing

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Episode 22: Unisexual Animals Part 2 & the Church Grim

In which Grace & Madz discuss unisexual animals (part 2 - whiptail lizards), as well as dog souls that guard churches. For visuals, check out our instagram or blog (links below).

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Theme song is "Hot Swing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode 21 visuals

A gravid Amazon molly caught near Corpus Christi, TX (© Jon McIntyre)

A female hybrid (left) and a tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrum) found in Ohio (photo by Katy Greenwald/Ohio Biodiversity Conservation Partnership)

Caricature of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published in a Punch almanac after the 1881 publication of The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the Action of Worms

Episode 21: Unisexual Animals Part 1 & Darwin's Worms

In which Grace & Madz discuss unisexual animals (part 1), as well as Darwin's work with earthworms. For visuals, check out our instagram or blog (links below).

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Theme song is "Hot Swing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode 20: Visuals

Honeycomb sponge by Richard Ling

 

Venus Flower Basket (and crab) from the NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2012 expedition

Check out NOAA's flickr page for more sponges!

 

Sponge body plans from left to right: asconoid, syconoid, leuconoid from wikimedia.com

 

Group of narwhals from marinebio.org

"Unicorn" horn from 1540 on display at the Imperial Treasury Museum in Vienna, Austria

 

 Grace's go-to sponge video!

Episode 20: Sponge Primer & Narwhal Unicorns

In which Grace & Madz discuss sponges 101, as well as narwhal horns. For visuals, check out our instagram or blog (links below).

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Theme song is "Hot Swing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Episode 19 Visuals

Monarch on swamp milkweed - Fauna Facts

Tropical Milkweed - Andreas Kay on Flickr



Ostrich racing - Florida Memory Project



Ostrich pulling a cart - Florida Memory Project

Episode 19: Monarch Conservation & Ostrich Racing

In which Grace & Madz discuss the do's and don't's of monarch conservation, as well as the defunct practice of ostrich racing in the South. For visuals, check out our instagram or blog (links below).

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Theme song is "Hot Swing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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