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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 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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Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
This week Kirk answers the question, "Can plants smell?" by looking at some really interesting experiments.
Rachel then decides to rise to the occasion of talking about the weird world of yeasts.
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Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
This week Rachel takes us (unsurprisingly) to the depths of the ocean to meet a bizarre and ancient creature while Kirk talks about how the smell of fresh cut grass may actually be a cry for help.
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Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Wednesday Aug 23, 2023
Kirk kicks things off with a deep dive on Sea Devils, Rachel brings us the story of a squid that seems to have an invisibility cloak and Victoria tells us the tale of a strange bird that smells exactly like tangerines.
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Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Wednesday Aug 16, 2023
Victoria is back this week and she starts things off with a list of animals that smell like familiar foods. Kirk tells us about the Red-lipped Batfish, an utterly bizarre creature from the ocean and Rachel rounds out the show this week with a suggested topic, glowing flying squirrels!
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Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
This week Rachel goes in search of a bird lost to science for over 100 years and Kirk answers the question, "Where did all of these lakes come from?"
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Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
Wednesday Aug 02, 2023
This week Kirk kicks off the show with the tallest canine in the world, the strange Maned Wolf. Rachel then takes us off the planet to the outer reaches of the solar system to learn about Haumea, a strange dwarf planet shaped like a giant rugby ball.
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Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Victoria kicks things off this week with a surprising story about Garlic Mustard that goes against everything we thought we knew.
Kirk then really stretches our minds by talking about extended cognition in spiders.
Rachel rounds out this week's show talking about a new discovery around dolphin language.
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Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Rachel really kicks things off this week by telling us about the "human fish" that live in caves. Victoria is back this week and looking at how the gender of scientists can skew the results of research. Kirk rounds things off this week by talking about how hippos sweat a pseudo-blood to use as sunscreen.
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