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Shenanigans from Weirdly Helpful
This week, we’re bringing you an episode from our friends at Weirdly Helpful, a podcast we love. And we’re talking about… shenanigans! High-spirited…
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The Green Goblins: Carnivorous Plants Bite Back
Pull on your wading boots because we’re taking you on a haunted swamp tour… of meat-eating plants! Our journey begins in a bog in North Carolina, where a fly…
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El escondite: Un misterio de la mariposa monarca
Just in time to commemorate Day of the Dead, we are releasing a special Spanish version of our monarch butterflies episode! Este episodio nos lleva a las…
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The Night Flyer: How Bats sPOOkily Revive Forests (Replay)
This Halloween, we’re going to the dark side. Deep in the darkest tropical forests, some of the world’s most elusive bats hang upside down in their winged…
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The Scarecrow: Scaring Birds with Mary Roach
It’s an epic humans-versus-birds showdown in this follow-up to last week’s crows episode! Ever since humans started farming, birds have been eating our crops…
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The Goths: Befriending Clever Crows
Spooky season is upon us and so we are bringing you a tale of Halloween’s eeriest avian mascot. Emma Terry is friends with basically everyone in her town. She…
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The Hideout: A Monarch Butterfly Mystery
As the leaves begin to change and the air cools, monarch butterflies disappear from our skies and journey … where? The mysterious migration of this iconic…
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The Snow Beast: A Mystery Animal (Replay)
Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a helicopter to a remote Arctic island near the North Pole…
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The Wallowers: A Buffalo Comeback Story
Ervin Carlson grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana hearing stories about buffalo (aka American bison) who once roamed the land by the hundreds of…
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Celestials: A Bedtime Snail Story Experiment
Meet François Tranquille. He's a snail. He's French. And this is the first episode of a little experiment we're calling Celestials: Bedtime Stories from…
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The Fuzzy Ruckus: The Power of Lichen (Replay)
Artist Ashley (Ash) Eliza Williams was so shy growing up that they found it hard to speak to people. Instead, they withdrew from the world of humans and found…
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The Jimothy: Seattle Raccoon Steals Hearts
If you’ve been on the internet recently, you might’ve heard of Jimothy—a raccoon from Seattle who went viral. Jimothy t-shirts, murals, tattoos, and tribute…
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Dung Beetles from Just the Zoo of Us
It’s summer break! So while Terrestrials takes a summer breather, we’re bringing you a show that we really love. It’s called Just the Zoo of Us, and it’s…
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The Charmer: King Cobras' FANGtastic Powers
Lulu has been terrified of snakes all her life. But strangely, her oldest son has been obsessed with them since he was two. So to understand his fascination…
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The Travelers Update: A Moon Tree Grows in New York
The director of horticulture at Madison Square Park, Stephanie Lucas, spends her days caring for over 300 trees in the heart of New York City. One day in 2022…
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The DADventure: Wild Animal Dads from Owl Monkeys to Seahorses
What does it really mean to be a dad? In the animal world, fathers have long been painted as aggressive or absent. At best providers and protectors, but…
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BIG CATS 2: Leopards & Jaguars (2 Fast, 2 FURious)
We're back with PURR-T TWO of our big cats journey, and this time, we’re heading even deeper into the cat-iverse. We travel to India, where conservationist…
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BIG CATS: Lions, Tigers & Roars (Oh My!)
Big cats are our most requested animal, but Lulu doesn’t really want to make an episode about them! She thinks lions, tigers, and their feline cousins are the…
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The Wicked Smoocha: Anglerfish Break A World Record
In the depths of the ocean, a tiny male anglerfish catches a scent and follows it through the darkness. Eventually he finds a glowing, toothy female with a…
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The Forest Fairy: Aphids Reveal Hidden Harmonies
Amy Ray (whose music you might know from the Indigo Girls) was on a walk in the Georgia woods with her dogs when she passed a tree branch and saw hundreds of…