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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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Oct 13, 2021
Oct 13, 2021
33 min
Rachel unravels the history of the Unicorn, Victoria explains albinism and related weirdness and Kirk debunks a myth about carrots that goes back to WWII propaganda.
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Oct 6, 2021
Oct 6, 2021
36 min
Kirk brings us a malodorous mystery, Rachel gets into the Halloween spirit with Vampire Bats and Victoria talks about a possible real world candidate for the mythical Minhocão.
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Sep 29, 2021
Sep 29, 2021
36 min
Victoria shares some fascinating research about Zebra Stripes, Kirk peeps on the science behind Fall Colors and Rachel talks about another living fossil, this time, the Tuatara.
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Sep 22, 2021
Sep 22, 2021
38 min
Rachel shares the story of the first ever broad-leafed tree (that is still with us today), Victoria digs on the Tasmanian Tiger and Kirk does a deep dive on these strange molecules called Carotenoids.
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Sep 15, 2021
Sep 15, 2021
35 min
Dagger moths, Vampire Deer and Midwestern earthquakes.
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Sep 8, 2021
Sep 8, 2021
40 min
This this episode, Victoria introduces the concept of cryptically extinct animals, Kirks looks are the relationship between mosquitoes and blood type and Rachel talks about the possible real-world historical roots of the mythical Phoenix.
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Sep 1, 2021
Sep 1, 2021
33 min
Rachel does a deep dive on the evolutionary history of whales, Victoria rummages around the evolutions junk drawer and Kirk talk about meat eating Hippos.
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Aug 25, 2021
Aug 25, 2021
30 min
Rachel predictably brings us a story from the ocean and we learn about the bizarre Oar Fish. Victoria relives childhood beach trauma and tells us about the Horseshoe Crab and Kirk blows everyone's minds with amazing facts about the most numerous bird on Earth.
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Aug 18, 2021
Aug 18, 2021
38 min
Kirk breaks our brains with a simple question about humidity, Rachel nerds out on the Cassowary and Victoria brings us flying snakes. Why...why must there be flying snakes?
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Aug 11, 2021
Aug 11, 2021
33 min
Kirk shares some ingenious research on bird migration, Rachel horrifies us with the Sarcastic Fringehead (and learns a geography lesson in the process) and Victoria brings on a plague of locusts.
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