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Episode 28 – Photuris Firefly: From Dusk Till Dawn
Imagine you’re a male firefly and you only have a month or so to find your soulmate. You flash your lights and strut your stuff, but nothing comes of…
7 years, 8 months ago
Episode 27 – American Bison: The Star Spangled Buffalo
The vast amber waves of grain seem an unceasing sea of unbroken golden wheat and prairie grasses. But a mighty beasts roams this American savanna, fr…
7 years, 8 months ago
Episode 26 – Tube Worm: Blood Plumes Near Magma Fumes
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Or, at least, get some distance between you and that molten underwater volcano. But there’s one a…
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 25 – American Black Bear: The Super Supper Smeller
They can smell when you have a pie, they can smell when you tell the lie, “My, oh, my! I have no pie!” Its a sense of smell you can’t deny, on a big …
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 24 – Epomis Beetle: An Underbug Story
The animal kingdom usually seems pretty straightforward. The bigger animal eats the smaller animal. But there are some cases where the tables are tur…
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 23 – Pacu Fish: Incredible Incisors
The life of an aquatic herbivore may mean non-stop soggy salads but there’s one South American fish that doesn’t mind at all. They may look like thei…
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 22 – Indian Grey Mongoose: The Quick and the Fuzzy
We have a saying in India: “Don’t go near King Cobras”. But the Indian Grey Mongoose says “bupkis” to that. When you are combating the world’s larges…
7 years, 9 months ago
Episode 21 – Hairy Frog: The Real Wolverine
The earth is covered in creatures with all kinds of amazing traits. But sometimes, those traits can be pretty horrifying by human standards. In the C…
7 years, 10 months ago
Episode 20 – Sea Devil: The Monster With Attachment Issues
Alright ye landlubbers! Hoist up the main sail, strike yer colors, and listen to the tale of the Black Sea Devil—a fish with the face of a demon. Wit…
7 years, 10 months ago
Episode 19 – Woolly Bear Moth: Just Dying to Fly
In nature, animals fight hard to survive and pass on their genes to the next generation. For an insect in the frigid regions of North America, even t…
7 years, 10 months ago