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Sleep like a log
Birds can fly while half their brain is sleeping and some spiders sleep dangling on a silk thread, but what about worms. Do worms sleep?
Featuring:
Associate Professor John Lesku, La Trobe University. …Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Why don't you act like a girl?
Boob-shaping hiccups are very sexy in the sage grouse world, but whose chesticles are in charge?
Featuring:
Lucy Cooke, Zoologist and author of Bitch A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution and the Fem…Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Bitch! Who is really in charge?
Female lab mice have been bred to be passive and breed with ease. But, in the wild they're feisty and even pugnacious. How much of our biological understanding of the world is based on misogyny?
Featu…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Birds, bees and a wang wang with a problem.
A tiny penis, a 12-hour annual fertilisation window, picky females and strawberry bubble bath – these are just a few of the issues that pop up when making a panda cub.
Featuring:
Chad Crittle, Acting A…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Shells with stories to tell
Forget ancestry searches online. Shells can tell you the history of the world.
Featuring:
Amy Prendergast, University of Melbourne.
Jann Vendetti, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Dr Paul B…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Kneel before the eel
For thousands of years eels have made people rich and powerful, literally. Now it's time to pay it back.
Featuring:
Dr. John Wyatt Greenlee, Historian Cornell University.
Erin Rose, Budj Bim World Her…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Purely for pleasure
For years we've barely even talked about the human clitoris let alone the fact that snakes have TWO.
This program has adult themes.
Featuring:
Belinda Smith, ABC Science Online Reporter.
Lucy Cooke, Au…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Are Naked Mole-rats the weirdest animals on earth?
They look like... 'sabre-toothed sausages', they can barely see, they live for a really long time and have a queen who oppresses them.
Find out all about the Naked Mole-rat this week and let us know y…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Craig Vs Snakes
Would you meet a stranger in a park with a pile of snakes?
Comedian, Craig Quartermaine, took the risk in an attempt to overcome his fears!
Featuring:
Craig Quartermaine, Comedian.
Sandy Dickinson, Urb…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago
Animals in Space
Who made small steps for man before man could even space walk?
Featuring:
James Foley, Author and Illustrator.
Kerrie Dougherty OAM, Senior Heritage and Outreach Officer, Australian Space Agency.
Emeritu…
Published on 2 years, 10 months ago