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Cookiecutter Shark : A Bright Shark in a Dark Ocean
Season 1 Episode 99
The Cookiecutter Shark is famous for its gruesomely efficient parasitic attacks on whales, seals and big fish. But that is only a part of the story w…
2 years, 2 months ago
Giant Barrel Sponge : Methuselah on the Reef
Season 1 Episode 98
The Giant Barrel Sponge: one of the simpler animals on Earth yet grows to enormous size over a crazily long life, exerts a big influence on reef ecos…
2 years, 3 months ago
Aldabra Giant Tortoise : The One and Only
Season 1 Episode 97
The Aldabra Giant Tortoise is an amazing survivor of a lost time - very recently lost - when giant tortoises dominated many of the islands in the Ind…
2 years, 3 months ago
Phrynus longipes : The Whip Spider in the Cave
Season 1 Episode 96
The Whip Spider Phrynus longipes is not a spider but one of the craziest-looking arachnids on Earth. They're also territorial and cannibalistic, so h…
2 years, 4 months ago
Glacier Lanternfish : The Scatterers
Season 1 Episode 95
The Glacier Lanternfish is one of the most important fish in the world - part of arguably the greatest, and most under-appreciated, concentration of …
2 years, 4 months ago
Matabele Ant : The Raid
Season 1 Episode 94
The Matabele Ant conducts large-scale raids against its only prey: termites. And the way it does it is amazing, with elements that might remind us of…
2 years, 5 months ago
Yellow-Footed Antechinus : Paying the Hormonal Price
Season 1 Episode 93
The Yellow-footed Antechinus is a tiny marsupial predator in Australia that has a life history, and in particular a breeding system, that makes it on…
2 years, 7 months ago
Train Millipede : The Eight Year Itch
Season 1 Episode 92
The Japanese Train Millipede has a surprising history of interactions with the country's railway system, and the pattern of those interactions reveal…
2 years, 7 months ago
Leopard : The Cat in the City
Season 1 Episode 91
The leopard is the most flexible, adaptable big cat in the world, with a surprisingly long history of visiting urban areas. Today, as in the past, sh…
2 years, 8 months ago
Paragordius tricuspidatus : The Phantom Thread
Season 1 Episode 90
What connects feasting Japanese fish, a swimming pool in southern France and Alexander the Great's encounter with the Gordian Knot? The extraordinary…
2 years, 9 months ago