Episode 23 Visuals: Mucous Grenades & Shrek the Sheep

Listen to the new episode!
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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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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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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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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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Episode 18 Visuals

Baby platypus by Faye Bedford

Platypus spur by E Lonnon

Echidna by pen_ash from Pixaby

Diagram of fox hunting using magnetic fields - Biology Letters, DOI:10.1098/RSBL.2010.1145

Time-lapse of fox mousing - Pre-tend Magazine

Result of fox mousing - Pre-tend Magazine

Episode 18: Monotremes & Magnetic Hunting

In which Grace & Madz discuss echidnas, platypuses, and a red fox hunting technique. For visuals, check out our instagram or blog (links below).

Note: Due to some technological issues there is a dip in audio quality for this episode. Expect it to be better next time! Thanks for your patience.

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Episode 17 Visuals

California Hagfish by California Academy of Sciences 2007

Hagfish knot by Andrew Clark














Hagfish Slime Predator Deterrence from Zintzen et al 2011














Bear mid taste test



The beekeeper, Ibrahim Sedef

Episode 17: Hagfish & Honey Testing

In which Grace & Madz discuss hagfish and their slime, and a Turkish beekeeper's unusual approach to bears. For visuals, check out our instagram or blog (links below).

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Episode 16 Visuals

Aristotle's lantern by Eric Kilby

Regeneration from one arm by Jan (Arny) Messersmith



















Sand dollar by budak iNaturalist

Starfish stomach eversion by NOAA

Portrait of Potoooooooo AKA Pot8os AKA Potatoes at the British Museum

Episode 16: Echinoderms & Potoooooooo

We're back!

In which Grace & Madz discuss echinoderms (starfish, sea cucumbers, sand dollars, etc.) and a horse with a very silly name. For visuals, check out our instagram or blog (links below).

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Episode 15 Visuals

Eastern American Mole

Star Nosed Mole by Rob Speiden





















Golden Mole by Johnny Wilson

Seal riding a humpback whale in Australia



















Beluga whale with harness in Norway

Episode 15: Golden Moles & a Beluga Spy

In which Grace & Madz discuss various moles and a couple whale stories. For visuals, check out our instagram or blog (links below).

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Episode 14 Visuals

Flying squirrel by Jonathan Martin

Swell shark (Cephaloscyllium ventriosum) by Sparks et al 2014

Puffins in sunglasses




A depiction of putting the bees into mourning.

Episode 14: Fluorescence & Telling the Bees

In which Grace & Madz discuss animal fluorescence (not to be confused with bioluminescence), and an old beekeeping custom. For visuals, check out our instagram or blog (links below).

P.S. Cosmic bowling!

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Episode 13 Visuals

Common Tenrec by Heinlonlein on Wikimedia

Greater Hedgehog Tenrec by Bernard Dupont

Streaked Tenrec by John Sullivan

Antoine Yates

Ming inside the apartment