Strange by Nature Podcast
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The Crypt-keeper Wasp
Strange by Nature Podcast
10/23/24 • 27 min
What an appropriate subject for the week before Halloween! Rachel brings us the very creepy Crypt-keeper Wasp. This parasitic wasp eats you alive inside your home and then forces you to dig a tunnel so it can escape by bursting through your forehead. All completely normal yes?
Kirk takes a turn to the humorous side by putting biologist's sense of humor on display when it comes to silly scientific names for plants and animals. From a fungus named after Spongebob to a Trilobite named after Han Solo, scientists sometimes like to wave their freak flag.
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Why We Drop 14.7 million Screwworms from Planes Every Week
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07/03/24 • 38 min
Kirk once again takes us back to space this week to talk about Schloz's Star. Incredibly, scientists discovered that 70,000 years ago, this star actually passed THROUGH our solar system.
Rachel's tale this week is almost as big and mind boggling but it takes place right here on Earth. She tells us why we are spending millions of dollars to drop 14.7 million screwworms into the rainforest in Panama EVERY WEEK!
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Surf, Turf and Outer Space
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03/10/21 • 38 min
Naked Mole Rats, Coelacanths and Space fairing lichens.
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Trees Older Than Written Language!
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04/23/25 • 30 min
Kirk blows our minds with the age of Bristlecone Pines. Did you know there are living trees that predate the invention of written language?
Victoria then has a doozy of a story about White-throated sparrows developing a new secondary sex chromosome. This bizarre occurrence means there are technically four different sexes of this bird instead of the regular two.
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Going to the Ant Surgeon
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08/14/24 • 38 min
This week, Kirk brings us a story about ants that perform surgery on injured colony members. Warning, the only surgery they know is amputation.
Rachel, talks about a fish that was seen living inside of a jellyfish.
Victoria caps it all off this week by getting extra weird talking about inter-species fornication. Why do they do it? It's quite a ride.
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The Banana Slasher, Intra-uterine Cannibals and Other Sweet Stories
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03/10/21 • 36 min
Not just Cannibals, this one also has a sugar cartel robbed in the largest heist in Canadian history and Kirk denies he is "The Banana Slasher."
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Bone Eating Worms
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01/01/25 • 40 min
Hey Everyone, it is our first show of 2025!
Kirk starts us off this week with a medical mystery from Australia. Can Victoria guess what it is? Spoiler, it is the Paralysis Tick!
Rachel (no surprise here) takes us to the bottom of the ocean to lean about a strange bone eating worm that feasts on dead whales.
Victoria also takes us underwater this week to Doggerland, a hidden submerged world at the bottom of the North Sea that used to be dry land and home to humans during the last ice age.
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A Pigeon Would Have Noticed the Microwave
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03/17/21 • 35 min
Legless Lizards, Amazing Pigeon Skills, and Darwin’s Tubercle.
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Can We Really Even See Purple?
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04/12/23 • 40 min
This week, Kirk breaks our brains a bit by revisiting the color purple and thinking about how strange it is that we can see it at all. Rachel then reels in the largest sunfish in the world and you won't believe how bit it can get.
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Introducing Killer Wasps to Save Birds
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11/20/24 • 33 min
This week, Kirk takes us back to the end of the dinosaur age and how the asteroid impact may have set up just the right conditions to create the world's first farmers. Ants, it turns out, beat humans to the idea of agriculture by about 65 million years.
Rachel then takes us to one of the most remote islands in the world, Nightingale Island, to hear about the amazing effort going to to save the endemic Wilkins's Bunting. It is a monumental task that included saving forests by raising and introducing killer wasps.
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How many episodes does Strange by Nature Podcast have?
Strange by Nature Podcast currently has 221 episodes available.
What topics does Strange by Nature Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Nature, Podcasts and Science.
What is the most popular episode on Strange by Nature Podcast?
The episode title 'The Mystery of the Glowing Wounds' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Strange by Nature Podcast?
The average episode length on Strange by Nature Podcast is 37 minutes.
How often are episodes of Strange by Nature Podcast released?
Episodes of Strange by Nature Podcast are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Strange by Nature Podcast?
The first episode of Strange by Nature Podcast was released on Feb 5, 2021.
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