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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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Aug 4, 2021
Aug 4, 2021
36 min
Victoria tells us that our immune systems make detergent, Kirk reveals the answer to the centuries old mystery of the Zodiacal Light and Rachel tells the tale of the Giant Chinese Salamander!
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Jul 28, 2021
Jul 28, 2021
37 min
Victoria tells us about orchids and it gets weird. Kirk tells an unbelievable story about trees growing inside a human and Rachel does a deep dive on some of the cooler facts about dragonflies.
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Jul 21, 2021
Jul 21, 2021
34 min
This week brings three awesome stories from around the world. Rachel brings the the tale of the "Horror Frog", Victoria has a mystery plant like no other and Kirk gives us a cool research update on how carnivores affect the plants in an ecosystem.
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Jul 14, 2021
Jul 14, 2021
31 min
It's true, we know the secrets of the fire swamps, we've lived there quite happily for some time.
This week, Kirk takes on Phagiomimicry, Rachel gets us unstuck from quicksand lore and Victoria tells the story of an amazing woman who can smell multiple diseases.
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Jul 7, 2021
Jul 7, 2021
34 min
Corpse Flowers, the Mystery of the Channeled Scablands and Biomimicry.
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Jun 30, 2021
Jun 30, 2021
34 min
Kirk brings us two stories of bulletproof armadillos to start off the show this week.
Rachel then has The mystery of Metamorphic Goo.
Victoria then covers strange cases of superfetation in humans. That is when a woman becomes pregnant with a second pregnancy when she is already pregnant.
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Jun 23, 2021
Jun 23, 2021
36 min
Victoria brings us a slimy story of hagfish gone amok, Kirk takes his extremes off planet and Rachel impales our ears on a story of the Loggerhead Shrike.
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Jun 16, 2021
Jun 16, 2021
34 min
Rachel talks ghost flowers, Victoria chats about spiders flying with electricity and Kirk brings weather extremes on Earth.
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Jun 9, 2021
Jun 9, 2021
34 min
Kirk talks radiation loving bacteria, Rachel nerds out on Moose, and Victoria talks about self-decapitating "wonder mollusks".
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Jun 2, 2021
Jun 2, 2021
32 min
Victoria takes on a listener question about Brood X Cicadas, Kirk introduces us to the Many Assed Hydra Worm and Rachel explores (the history of) the anus.
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