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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 Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Victoria brings us the amazing story of the world's first ever known fruit eating frog. Yeah, it pollinates flowers too.
Kirk delves into the Salt Cedar and tries to puzzle out whether or not invasive species really are to blame for being the way they are.
Rachel blows our minds by telling us about pollinators and flowering plants in the ocean. She presents new research on crustaceans as pollinators.
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Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
This week, Rachel ask the question, "Can you tell if something is wet?" the answer may surprise you.
Kirk talks about a new surprising use for waste beer yeast, it just might be the key to clean drinking water.
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Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Kirk just can't help himself and goes with another episode about a parasite. Ladies and Germs, we present, the Rat Lung Worm.
Rachel keeps the infection theme going by talking about the first ever case of a cross-kingdom infection when a man was found to have a fungus growing in his throat.
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Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Welcome to the Halloween Episode.
This week we have three spooky stories. Rachel talks about the terrifying Black Swallower Fish, Victoria bring us the story of Pirate Spiders and Kirk examines the smell of fear. Happy Halloween!
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Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
As we ramp up toward Halloween things really start to get weird. Kirk makes us all queasy by talking about Bot flies that prey on humans. Rachel brings us the bizarre looking Monkey Slug Caterpillar and Victoria tells us all about Cockroaches. We had a ton of fun this week, we hope you do too.
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Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Victoria kicks things off with a bizarre story about Fire Beetles, a strange animals that actually goes TOWARD fire instead of away from it. Kirk then shares some disturbing news about powerful solar storms that could disable society and Rachel rounds out this week's show with the spookiest of near-Halloween topics...mistletoe? Oh yeah, we also answer a strange listener question about Pineapple. Amanda, how dare you?
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Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Rachel starts us off this week with the strange history of Jackalopes. It seems they are a fairly recent fabrication and not real animals...or are they? The story is stranger than you may expect.
Kirk swerves into Rachel's lane this week and takes us to the depths of the ocean where the mysterious Volcano Snail lives aside hydrothermal vents and creates a shell and body covered in metallic armor.
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Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Wednesday Sep 27, 2023
Kirk brings some new science around Bamboo. Are we on the verge of a massive die-off? Rachel talks Cheetahs! Are they strange? Yup!
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Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Victoria starts off this week making us squirm with the story of a worm in a woman's brain. Kirk then shares some strange facts about the Fossa, the main antagonist in the kids movie Madagascar that for sure did NOT make it into the cartoon and Rachel wraps things up this week where else but the ocean where she shares about an amazing and enormous colonial animal.
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Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
Wednesday Sep 13, 2023
The whole gang's back together this week and it ends up being an unplanned invertebrate extravaganza! Rachel blows our mind this week with new research that shows spiders dream, Victoria then talked about absolutely astounding ant super-colonies that span several countries in size. Kirk rounds out our invertebrate celebration with a story about an amazing new wasp named after the Dementors from Harry Potter.
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