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Vampire Squid : Neither Vampire Nor Squid
Season 1 Episode 79
The Vampire Squid is not really a vampire, nor is it really a squid. It's the last survivor of an ancient lineage that has arrived in the present wit…
3 years, 10 months ago
Corsac Fox : Two Foxes, an Eagle and a Marmot
Season 1 Episode 78
The Corsac Fox is a small, elegant fox of Central Asia, Mongolia and China - a huge range, most of which it shares with four other animals that loom …
3 years, 11 months ago
Neon Flying Squid : You'll Believe a Squid Can Fly
Season 1 Episode 77
The Neon Flying Squid is one of those animals that lives up to its cool name: a squid that can actually fly. And we're not talking just gliding - tim…
3 years, 11 months ago
Scottnema : Maximum South
Season 1 Episode 76
The most numerous purely terrestrial animal in Antarctica is almost certainly the nematode worm Scottnema lindsayae. An astonishingly resilient littl…
4 years ago
Red-Crowned Crane : DMZ
Season 1 Episode 75
The Red-Crowned Crane is a hugely charismatic, properly iconic bird, with symbolic importance in much Asian art, culture and myth. So here's me tryin…
4 years, 1 month ago
Emperor Scorpion : Very Good With Children
Season 1 Episode 74
The Emperor Scorpion (Pandinus imperator) is one of the biggest, most impressive and fearsome-looking scorpions in the world. So why is it described …
4 years, 2 months ago
(REBROADCAST) Northern Fulmar : The Foul Gull of St Kilda
Season 1 Episode 73
To fill an unanticipated, COVID-related gap in the schedule, this is a rebroadcast of an episode from the first year of the podcast - one that myster…
4 years, 2 months ago
Pig-Nosed Turtle : One of a Kind
Season 1 Episode 72
The Pig-Nosed Turtle of New Guinea and northern Australia really does have a pig-like nose. But this is one of the most unusual, distinctive turtles …
4 years, 3 months ago
Fenyes's Strepsipteran : You Have Got To Be Kidding
Season 1 Episode 71
Fenyes's strepsipteran (Caenocholax fenyesi) is one of the most extraordinary insects in the world. A parasitoid living a deeply strange life - twice…
4 years, 3 months ago
Tri-Spine Horseshoe Crab : Survivors
Season 1 Episode 70
The Tri-spine Horseshoe Crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) is one of four living horseshoe crab species (probably, marginally, the biggest). Animals that …
4 years, 4 months ago