Strange by Nature Podcast

Ninety-five Foot High Rogue Waves

This week we Rachel and Kirk both head to the ocean but or very different reasons.

 

Rachel tells us all about the Portuguese Man-O-War, one of the strangest creatures in the sea. Upon hearing the story, Kirk decides he may never swim in the ocean again.

 

Kirk brings us back to the sea again with a story about the time his ship almost fell victim to the North Sea and then fills us in on the phenomenon of Rogue Waves that can reach 95 feet in height. That's some big waves!

Surf's up!

 

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Cologne for Cats?

This week Kirk kicks things off with details of a fascinating study that determined which perfume tigers find most alluring. The implications for research are surprisingly useful.

 

Rachel takes on a listener suggestion and covers new research into the bizarre ability of Reindeer to eat while they sleep!

 

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A T-Rex with Lips

This week Victoria starts us off by having us think about dinosaurs and why we haven't updated our portrayals of them based on new science. It turns out, T-Rex probably had lips.

 

Kirk then tells the tale of a time in the far distant past when birds ate our ancestors.

 

Rachel wraps things up this week with the bizarre tale of a moth with a surprising diet.

 

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Why Are There So Many Deadly Animals in Australia?

Rachel kicks off this week with a bizarre tale of a parasite that invades the nests of red ants, pretends to be their queen, works the ants to death, and eats their young all in a quest to become a beautiful butterfly. 

Victoria takes us to Australia and asks the question, why are there so many poisonous animals there?

Kirk rounds out the episode with the strange story of how volcanoes may be changing the color of owls. 

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Beer Saved Our Lives

This week on the show, Kirk talks about how Beer saved his life (and yours.) Rachel then has a mystery animal that isn't anything like you would suspect from the name. The Mountain Chicken doesn't live in mountains, and isn't a chicken. It isn't even a bird. It is the biggest frog in the world. Weird. 

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Where Did Tongues Come From?

Two great topics this week. Rachel tells us about mysterious rivers that flow under the ocean and Kirk tracks the history and evolution of the tongue!

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Inducing Hibernation with Sound

This week, Kirk kicks things off by sharing some incredible research that shows it may be possible to induce a torpor/hibernation state in mammals with ultrasound. Rachel lets us know all about the Gopher Tortoise, and Victoria tell us all about the strange world of Mussel reproduction. 

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Echidnas Have a Four-headed Pecker

Hello Dear Listeners. Here's what we have for you this week. Victoria kicks things off by telling the tale of her recent encounter with one of the world's few venomous mammals and you'll never guess where she found it...her basement!

Kirk invents a weird quiz about strange ways nature might try to kill you. Which is more likely, getting hit in the face by a duck while jet skiing or being gored by a bison?

Rachel shares about a relative of the playtpus, the Echidna, and wow does she ever save the most disturbing fact until the end. 

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Bull Sharks on the Golf Course

We had an absolute blast this week with the full crew. Rachel kicks us off by telling us exactly how strange Scallops really are. Are those eyes? Yup. Next up, Victoria tells us the story of the golf course with bull sharks in the water traps. Kirk then wraps things up by testing out how well the other hosts can spot a hidden snake in digitally altered images all to test out something called the Snake Detection Theory. 

 

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Excuse Me, Is That the Anal Secretion of a Beaver You’re Wearing?

Kirk takes us on a journey to learn about where the smell of Musk comes from and along the way we find out about a problem with the synthetic versions that took our nostrils by storm starting in the 1990s. Rachel then tells the amazing story about how the physical structure of dragonfly wings can destroy bacteria just by coming into contact with it. 

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