Strange by Nature Podcast

This week, Kirk is back and the crew pulled together another great show. Victoria kicks things off with a creature feature on an animal we can't believe it took this long to discuss, the Dodo!

Kirk, fresh from vacation spins a tale taking us back thousands of years to the eruption of Thera/Santorini in 1618 BCE and how it may have lead to the collapse of a dynasty in China.

Rachel rounds out this week with spiders, so...many...spiders. Not only that, these spiders feed themselves to their young to keep the colony going. It's a fascinating look into yet another example of nature not fitting into our preconceived boxes.

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Hello Everyone, time for another weekly dose of weird. This week, Victoria kicks things off with a story about Brown-headed cowbirds and their amazing nesting strategy of being nest parasitizers. 

Rachel then stinks up the place with a deep dive on those cuddly creatures...skunks. 

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This week we've got two amazing stories that couldn't be more different. Rachel spins a tale that spans millions of years. Could the explosion of life during the Ordovician have been the result of meteor impacts? Could those meteors have come from a time when Earth had rings like Saturn? She explores this possibility this week!

Victoria is up next and scoops Rachel with a topic off her secret list. This week she present to you the mysterious and strange Blue Sea Dragons. Earth is full of strange creatures. We're happy to bring them to you each and every week.

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Victoria kicks off the show this week with yet another flying animal that usually can't fly. She's brought us flying snakes and flying spiders, how about flying fish?

Kirk takes us on a winding journey connecting the dots over millions of years of history to connect a high-school sex-ed class with Sue the T-rex and an ancient protozoan disease.

Rachel rounds out the show with the Secretary Bird. An amazing raptor that kills not with talons but with one of the most powerful kicks in the animal kingdom. Beware your skull being crushed.

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Rachel brings us the beautiful and disgusting Bradford pear this week. Thank you?

Victoria takes us deep underground to discover mind-blowingly large gypsum crystals discovered deep in the earth in Mexico.

Kirk round out this week's show with the strange mystery of a toad with eyes in mouth.

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Kirk starts off the show with the mysterious story of the Basra Grain Poisoning of 1971, a terrible story of the dangers of methylmercury.

Rachel is up next with the amazing story of Lake Baikal, the oldest and deepest freshwater lake on Earth. 

Victoria rounds out this week's show by talking about animal asymmetry. Turns out, not all animals are symmetrical and they can get real weird. 

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Victoria starts us off with a wealth of information about hermit crabs and the strange process of shell swapping.

Kirk brings us the strange tale of Conan the Bacterium, a bacterium that can withstand amazing amounts of radiation and survive.

Rachel wraps us up this week with...wait for it...even MORE facts about dandelions.

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What's so strange about Dandelions? That's a good question and Rachel gets to the bottom of it.

Victoria is up next with some wild research into just how large of an object a snake can swallow.

Kirk rounds out this week's show with a creature feature about a strange mole-like creature in Europe that is a relic of the past.

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Kirk brings the strange tale of the King's Lomatia, quite possibly the oldest living plant on Earth. It is a strange tree that has lost the ability to sexually reproduce and yet...it keeps on living for thousands of years.

Rachel has a doozy of a story about a man who let himself be bitten by venomous snakes over and over and over. Now he's helping scientists make a better anti-venom.

Victoria travels to the stars to tell us about planets made of diamonds. 

We really do cover it all this week!

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This week, Victoria starts us off with a discussion probably not suitable for all ages by talking about the massive penis of the Serotine Bat. It's a lot to take in.

Kirk then shares the remarkable story of a palm tree that both flowers and fruits completely underground.

Rachel rounds out this week's show talking about the fastest moving predatory appendage in the animal kingdom. The jaws of the Trap Jaw ant closes at 143 mph.

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