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Life is strange, naturally you want to hear about it. Strange by Nature is your guide to the strange, weird and unbelievable side of nature. Professional naturalists present weekly curated stories about just how strange nature can get.
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Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
Wednesday Mar 19, 2025
Welcome to the beginning of year 5 of the podcast. We're happy to have all of our amazing listeners along for the ride.
Rachel kicks things off this year with the bizarre story of a fish that spends more time on land than in water. Welcome to the world of mud skippers.
Victoria probes the depths of the ocean to unravel the mystery of Dark Oxygen. This finding has big implications for rare earth mining.
Kirk wraps things up this week by asking the question, can frogs see rainbows? The answer may explain why Kermit the Frog wants to know why people sing some many songs about them.
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29 days ago
Also I’m a millennial so my first thought for a song sung by a frog was crazy frog, the scourge of my youth - if that, and also Bob The Builder’s Mumbo No. 5 can chart I absolutely believe Rainbow Connection could
29 days ago
The mud skipper story reminds me of when I saw people on tiktok talking about how crocodiles can climb trees because they saw an article, but didn’t realize that it’s not all crocodiles and some are quite small - a 6m croc isn’t climbing a tree