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Strange Animals Podcast

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Strange Animals Podcast

Katherine Shaw

Episode 493: NEW The Mystery of Esconichthys and Friends

July 13, 2026 1:00am 16 min

Yes, this is a NEW episode! Thanks to Eesa, Grace, and Viki for their suggestions this week. (Actual episode starts at 3 minutes 28 seconds.) Find the Backerkit campaign here! Further reading: Nix Illlustration: Esconich...

Episode 492: Basilosaurids

July 06, 2026 1:00am 8 min

Further reading: Giant early whale Basilosaurus hunted the calves of other whales Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Let’s look at some extinct whale ancestors this month, basi...

Episode 491: The Jumar

June 29, 2026 1:00am 6 min

Further reading: http://messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-equines.htm Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. I stumbled across an interesting mystery animal recently and thought it wo...

Episode 490: Ipnops and Other Deep-Sea Fish

June 22, 2026 1:00am 9 min

Further reading: Faceless Fish and the deep-sea voyages that found it Long-Lost ‘Faceless’ Fish Shows Up Near Australia Ipnops: The faceless cusk [photo taken from the second article linked above]: A tripod fish: Show...

Episode 489: Animal Artists

June 15, 2026 1:00am 10 min

Further reading: https://elephantartgallery.com/blogs/meet Desmond Morris with his favorite Congo painting: Peter/Pierre Brassau and some of his paintings: The so-called donkey painting, and I described it wrong in the...

Episode 488: The Java Tiger Mystery

June 08, 2026 1:00am 5 min

Further reading: Is the Javan tiger Panthera tigris sondaica extant? DNA analysis of a recent hair sample The Sunda tiger [photo by Alfonsopazphoto – Own workAnimaisFotos, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/in...

Episode 487: Animals and the Sense of Taste

June 01, 2026 1:00am 8 min

Further reading: What gives bees their sweet tooth? Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Right before I left on my trip to Belize a few months ago, my aunt Janice gave me a magaz...

Episode 486: Two Rediscovered Birds

May 25, 2026 1:00am 8 min

Further reading: https://www.audubon.org/news/like-finding-unicorn-researchers-rediscover-black-naped-pheasant-pigeon-bird https://www.sci.news/paleontology/confuciusornis-shifan-11528.html The black-naped pheasant-pigeo...

Episode 485: Cryodraken’s Very Bad Day

May 18, 2026 1:00am 6 min

Further reading: Rare pterosaur fossil reveals crocodilian bite 76m years ago Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Let’s learn about a type of pterosaur that lived around 75 mill...

Episode 484: The Sewellel and the Superflea

May 11, 2026 1:00am 7 min

The sewellel is a little rodent: The superflea is a big flea (left, compared to a regular flea, right): Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Let’s learn about a rodent you may ...

Episode 483: Animals with Nose Horns

May 04, 2026 1:00am 9 min

The horned gopher: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This time we’re going to learn about some mammals with weird horns. Specifically, weird nose horns. Nose horns are proper...

Episode 482: Smoky Mountain Mystery Animals

April 27, 2026 1:00am 18 min

I took this episode from an article I wrote for Flying Snake magazine, which was published in December 2020 (Vol. 6, #18). Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. The Great Smoky Mo...

Episode 481: The Pictish Beast

April 20, 2026 1:00am 8 min

This week we’ll learn about a long-forgotten animal of folklore! Further reading: https://www.anomalist.com/ The Pictish Beast: A dragonesque brooch: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host,...

Episode 480: Old, Old Life

April 13, 2026 1:00am 7 min

Let’s learn about some of the oldest life ever discovered! Further reading: Microbiologists Find Living Microbes in 2-Billion-Year-Old Rock Chart of life extended by nearly 1.5 billion years Show transcript: Back in epis...

Episode 479: Metal Animals

April 06, 2026 1:00am 7 min

Further reading: Beavers Have Metal Teeth Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Let’s find out about some animals that incorporate metal into their bodies in more than just trace...

Episode 478: Life in Ice

March 30, 2026 1:00am 13 min

Is there life on Europa? We take a look at Greenland and Antarctica to find out more about life on Jupiter’s icy moon. Further reading: Life on Venus claim faces strongest challenge yet Stanford researchers’ explanation ...

Episode 477 Albanerpetontidae

March 23, 2026 2:00am 6 min

It’s Albert the Albanerpetontid! Further reading: Earliest example of a rapid-fire tongue found in ‘weird and wonderful’ extinct amphibians Amphibian skullllll: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m y...

Episode 476 Hercynian Animals

March 16, 2026 2:00am 6 min

Further reading: Identifying the beasts in Caesar’s forest Reindeer: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. After the glaciers retreated from Europe at the end of the last ice age...

Episode 475 Superweb

March 09, 2026 2:00am 6 min

This week let’s look at the work of a really astonishing number of spiders! Further reading: Megaweb! Some of the webs: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Baltimore, Maryland...

Episode 474: The Button Quail Mystery

March 02, 2026 1:00am 9 min

DRAMA! Bird drama! Here are some further-reading links if you want to verify that I’m not vilifying anyone: Buff-breasted Buttonquail: An image claimed to be of this species revealed Buff-breasted Buttonquail: Smoke & Mi...

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