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The Invaders: Coquí Frogs Just Won't Die
Episode 18
Coquí frogs are synonymous with Puerto Rican identity. Residents of the island doze off to the high-pitched calls of coquís from dusk to dawn. There …
8 months, 1 week ago
The Snow Beast: A Mystery Animal with Latif Nasser
Episode 17
Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a helicopter to a remote Arctic island near the Nor…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Windbreaker: Why Farts Make the World Go Round
Episode 16
Farts. Trouser trumpets. Sulfur squeaks. Or toots, as Lulu insists on calling them. Smelly bubbles of air we don’t like to talk about. But Songbud Al…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
The Shadow Creature: Rats Who Save Human Lives
Episode 15
Rats have a bad reputation. They’ve been called evil, terrifying and wicked. The lowliest and most abominable of creatures. Songbud Alan felt the sam…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
More Terrestrials Coming Soon!
Terrestrials returns Thursday, April 17th with a brand-new season!
This spring, we’re diving into the wonderfully weird. Get ready to meet some of the…
9 months ago
Build-A-Dragon
Episode 14
On January 29, in places like China, Malaysia, Korea and Chinatowns across the globe, dragons will rise in the form of massive puppets. Today we brin…
9 months, 1 week ago
The Bullseye: Treasure Hunt to Recursive Islands
Episode 12
Have you ever seen an island on a lake? On an island? On a lake? On another island? Josh Calder has. Working in a dusty room of a library, he first s…
9 months, 1 week ago
An Ocean in Space
Episode 11
BLAST OFF! NASA just sent a spacecraft to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, and on the side of that spacecraft, they included a poem. Not just any poem…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Crystal Ball: Giant Honeybees Who Predict the Future
Episode 9
The honeybee. The ever-important pollinator for our plants is disappearing. Some call it the silence of the bees, others call it colony collapse diso…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Snowball: Extreme Squirrels in the Arctic
Episode 8
Middle schooler, Aanya, has an up-close encounter with a squirrel in the school yard, which leads her to an obsession with one of North America's mos…
9 months, 2 weeks ago