Strange by Nature Podcast - Your Weekly Weird Nature

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The massive penis of the Serotine Bat. It's a lot to take in.

A palm tree that both flowers and fruits completely underground.

The fastest moving predatory appendage in the animal kingdom. The jaws of the Trap Jaw ant closes at 143 mph.

#Insects #Bats #Flowers #Science #Podcast

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"By the Wind Sailors", bizarre colonial creatures of the sea.
Giant Bird Eating Spiders. The stuff of nightmares.
The Ringing Rocks of Pennsylvania, a geological marvel.

#Ocean #Birds #Geology #Scicomm #Science #Weird #Strange #Podcast

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The new identity of a frog puzzling the scientific community for 80 years.

The Binturong, the bizarre bearcat that smells like buttered popcorn.

Victoria tells us about the truly strange Sea Hares and her mom's research connection to them.

#Science #Podcast #Frog #Ocean #Scicomm

The negative comments are overwhelming. People hate this idea.

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The strange phenomenon of social yawning. Are yawns really contagious?

The Bone Collector Moth. When its a caterpillar, it creates a disguise by gluing dead bodies to itself. Yikes.

Brand new research showing that sharks can make sounds!

#Sharks #Spiders #Weird #Scicomm #Podcast

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The Almendro #tree attracts lightening in order to kill off the trees around them. Talk about a bad neighbor!

The Ruff, is a shorebird with three distinct versions of males. They each have their own distinct plumage and role in the mating dance.

#Birds #Scicomm #Science #Podcast

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Did you know there are living #trees that predate the invention of written language?

Also, White-throated sparrows have a new secondary sex chromosome.

This bizarre occurrence means there are technically four different sexes of this bird instead of the regular two.
#birds #nature

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The surprising reason that blue-eyed white cats are often deaf.

White-necked Jacobin have babies who's feathers perfectly mimic dangerous caterpillars in order to scare away predators.

A discussion of the tallest trees in the world, the coastal redwoods.

From the interestingasfuck community on Reddit: A starfish born square due to a birth defect Explore this post and more from the interestingasfuck community

This is nuts.

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• Why are banana peels so slippery?
• The Origin of the Dingo
• A weird prehistoric wasp with a belly like a Venus flytrap!

So much #weird in one episode!
#scicomm #science #strange #australia #wasps #prehistoric #nature #podcast

Wunderground's Wundermap is showing multiple (radar indicated) tornadoes just east of Slayton (at 2:42 pm). Do you think that is reliable? Any actual spotter reports?

The variation and change of their song over time is a fascinating case study in how new songs basically become popular with birds and spread though the population.

Sharing to #InverteFest

Forget birds, mammals and fish, the sheer diversity of invertebrates is mind blowing.

You see this hand crawling out of the ground under a tree. What do you do?

Ever seen a muskrat get ready for a nap? Now you have. Found this little guy in the wetland today.

Yes but trees. So many trees to buy.

Deplorable.

A clam on a wooden railing with a stormy grey sea in the background

There it is. The clam before the storm.

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So much goodness! Archerfish that can remember human faces.

The Sydney Funnel Web #Spider which can kill a human in as little as 15 minutes.

An amazing story of inter-species hunting cooperation all orchestrated by the Big Blue #Octopus.

#scicomm #science #podcast #strange #ocean

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Victoria tells us about a truly massive slime #mold.
Kirk answers the challenging question, can #snakes be poisonous AND venomous?
Rachel introduces us to the odd #bird the Horned Screamer.

#Podcast #Science #Weird #Strange #Protists #Scicomm #Birds

a shiny metallic green sweat bee on white yarrow flowers

a chonky, pollen hauling in flight digger bee hovering in front of a pink red flowering currant flower

a fuzzy bee covered in pollen on top of the cone part of a cone flower

a hovering mason bee with a pollen hat and booties in front of a yellow flower

I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives.

So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!

#Invertebrates

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This one was so much fun. #Fish that can climb trees, Mysterious Dark Oxygen in the #ocean and finally asking the hard hitting question...can #frogs even SEE a rainbow?

#Podcast #Weird #Strange #Scicomm #Science #Nature #Naturalist #Amphibians #Mystery

Alder buds are popping open in Minnesota. #spring

Calling All Science Podcasters!

Are you the host or producer of a #science based #podcast?
Did you know there is a Science Podcasters Discord group where we support each other?
Shoot me an email at contact@strangebynaturepodcast if you are a podcaster and want to be added to the group.
#scicomm

Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that:

1. Climate change is real
2. Vaccines work
3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤

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This episode is a celebration of FOUR YEAR of Strange by Nature podcast. Like every year, we celebrate with a bizarre quiz show including everyone's favorite game: Eat, Ride, Jacket.

#strange #science #nature #podcast #naturalist #weird #scicomm

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This one is wild. Learn about the mysterious ancient fruit the Medlar. Figure out why there is sometimes a grape leaf in the pickle jar and round things out with a horrifying eye-worm.

#podcast #scicomm #nature #plants #fruit #weird #disease #pickles

Wild New Study Suggests Buttholes Once Had a Very Different Purpose If the genes of a tiny, bumless invertebrate are anything to go by, our anuses might be repurposed sperm chutes.

This feels like something we should cover on the show. Though, though to be fair. We’ve talked about the butt before.

This has been known about for a while in inner-circles. I took a job waxing bigfoots a few years back to help them deal with global warming. Not fun.