The Alligator's Super Sense

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Beastly Brains: Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel

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Secret Worlds: The Extraordinary Senses of Animals

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Puzzle of the Platypus

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Orangutans Are Copycats: But each groups has its own way of doing things.

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Discover Forensic Science

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Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge

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How Bats Slurp at Night

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The Dragon's Blood

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Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

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Hearing, Tasting, Touching: Understanding the World Through Our Senses

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Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved

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What Happened to the Mammoths?: And Other Explorations of Science in Action

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Elephant Grandmothers

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Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

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Night Walk and Other Nighttime Stories

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50 Dinosaur Tales: And 108 More Discoveries From The Golden Age Of Dinos

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The Adventures of Dr. Sloth: Rebecca Cliffe and Her Quest to Protect Sloths

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Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials

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Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease

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The Second Brain: A Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine

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Dueling Dinosaurs and Other Real Dino Stories

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High-Tech Fish

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What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience

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Down a Wombat Hole and Other Fuzzy Stories

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Kingdom of Play: What Ball-bouncing Octopuses, Belly-flopping Monkeys, and Mud-sliding Elephants Reveal about Life Itself

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Frogs (A Day in the Life): What Do Frogs, Toads, and Tadpoles Get Up to All Day?

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The 100 Year Miracle: A Novel

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Everyday Miracles

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Can You Tell a Stegosaurus from an Ankylosaurus?

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Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist

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The Mouse and the Motorcycle

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How to Hold a Cockroach: A book for those who are free and don't know it

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Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course: Spanish Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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The Hunger Games

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Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II

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City of Ghosts (City of Ghosts #1)

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A Bear Called Paddington

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Anne of Green Gables

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Mockingjay

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Catching Fire

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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Two Degrees

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Summary of The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

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Learn Spanish with Paul Noble for Beginners – Part 1: Spanish Made Easy with Your 1 million-best-selling Personal Language Coach

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Spanish Short Stories: 20 Captivating Spanish Short Stories for Beginners While Improving Your Listening, Growing Your Vocabulary and Have Fun

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Pax

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Velveteen Rabbit

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The Secret Garden

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Amari and the Night Brothers

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Summary: Thinking, Fast and Slow: by Daniel Kahneman: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included

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Ground Zero

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Island of the Blue Dolphins

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New Kid

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Refugee

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Out of My Mind

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The One and Only Ivan

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Series of Unfortunate Events #1 Multi-Voice, A: The Bad Beginning

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The Wee Free Men

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The Secret Garden (dramatic reading)

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A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: The Reptile Room

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Episode 134: The Magpie

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Ants, Ants, and More Ants: What Research on Ants can Teach us about Ourselves and our Future as a Species: Should ants be considered unsightly pests or ecological saviors? Before you decide to eradicate the ant hills from your backyard, take the time to learn about the ecological role of insects in their local ecosystems and the benefits of keeping ants in...

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Cephalopunch - The Case of the Interspecies Hunting Party Smack: The crew speaks with Octopus researcher Dr. Eduardo Sampaio. Eduardo got his PhD studying octopus behavior, cognition, and social contexts and is a Nat Geo Explorer. Eduardo and his team studied octopuses in interspecies hunting parties that included eels and fish. The party is hunting when all of the sudden, one of the fishes gets smacked by the octopus. Eduardo walks us through what we currently think about the Cephalopunch.

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Audio long read: Lab mice go wild — making experiments more natural in order to decode the brain: Neuroscientists are developing new set-ups to study how the brain might work in the messy, unpredictable real world.

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Episode 311: The Mystery Deep-Sea Spider: Thanks to Llewelly for this suggestion, and thanks to Dr. Thomas A. Hegna for providing me with the two papers I reference in this episode! - Images are taken from the papers. - The mystery "spider": - Long-legged isopods: -

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429: Studying Smart Slime Molds and Collective Intelligence in Ant Colonies - Dr. Audrey Dussutour: Dr. Audrey Dussutour is a National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Scientist at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France. When she’s not in front of her computer screen for work, Audrey loves going out to the movies and watching DVDs...

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These tiny fish combine electric pulses to probe the environment: Elephantnose fish share electric pulses to extend their senses, and the bumblebees that show a uniquely human trait.

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Episode 179: Lost and Found Animals: This week let's learn about some animals that were discovered by science, then not seen again and presumed extinct...until they turned up again, safe and sound! - Further reading: - A nose-horned dragon lizard lost to science for over 100 years has b...

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Episode 330: Vintana and Tiarajudens: Thanks to Lorenzo for suggesting Tiarajudens! We'll learn about it this week along with another extinct animal, Vintana. - Further reading: - Funky facial flanges [the skull picture below comes from this site] -

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Episode 131: Paleontological Mistakes: Part of the scientific method involves making mistakes and correcting them. Here are some interesting and sometimes goofy mistakes made by paleontologists through the years, and how the mistakes were corrected. -

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Episode 142 : Raptor Prey Remains with Ed Drewitt

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The mighty T-Rex brain: When you think of the dinosaurs, you probably think of supersized lizards. At least I do. They were gargantuan, certainly, and maybe quite agile, but also a bit dim-witted. Maybe not markedly dim-witted, but definitely not the brightest. When...

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Sight off the Bat: While hunting for dinner, the big brown bat must hone in on flitting insects and keep track of its surroundings to avoid crashing into them. Now, scientists have taken a peek at what’s going on in these bats’ brains while they swoop and dive. They identif

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Inside the Shark's Mind: Can science stop sharks attacking humans?

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Monster microbe: Gigantic bacterium discovered in the Caribbean. It’s the size and shape of an eyelash.

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Scorpiology (SCORPIONS) with Lauren Esposito

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150: AAH SEARCH for the LOST DRAGON | Scott Trageser: In 1980, a single specimen of a “tree monitor” was recovered from Halmahera, Indonesia. In 2005, it was determined that the specimen had originally been misidentified and the holotype specimen was actually an unidentified species. This newly...

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Smarthropods: Cognition in Insects (Ep 46)

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SUFB 759: Do Cuttlefish Dream?: Teresa Iglesias, a biologist at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, recently . Teresa and her team observed Rapid Eye Movement (REM) in cuttlefish during an experiment that also occurs in mammals and other vertebrates. REM in humans...

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Episode 264: Sick, Sad Dinosaurs: This week we answer a question you probably didn't ask, did dinosaurs ever get sick? The answer is yes (or else it would be a super short episode). (Thanks to Llewelly for some corrections!) - A big birthday shout-out to Gwendolyn!

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Minding plants: Let’s start with a little riddle: What kind of organism has no eyes, no mouth, and no brain, but—arguably—has a mind? Most of the work on non-human minds has, naturally, focused on animals—apes, dogs, whales, bats. Some have considered other...

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Is it ethical to put human brain cells in a rat?: Researchers have transplanted human neurons into the brains of rats. Ian Sample speaks to the philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu about how they managed it and how we decide where to draw the line in such an ethically complex field of science

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584: Studying Smart Slime Molds and Collective Intelligence in Ant Colonies - Dr. Audrey Dussutour: Dr. Audrey Dussutour is a National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Scientist at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France. Audrey studies animal behavior and collective intelligence in ant colonies and slime molds. In ant colonies, she...

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DARK MATTER... what is it? Could the Euclid Mission help us to understand it?

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Episode 090: Spiders! NO COME BACK, IT’S SAFE TO LISTEN: As we get closer and closer to Halloween, the monsters get scarier and scarier! Okay, spiders are not technically monsters, but some people think they are. Don’t worry, I keep descriptions to a minimum so arachnophobes should be okay!

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Starfish Sperm and Your Brain! ft. Dr. Esther: Esther Odekunle studies the neurophysiology of Starfish, and your brain. She teaches us how starfish vomit out their stomachs, how "sensitive" they are and what they're sperm looks like, lol! She also explains the beautiful way in which ...

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Spiders can have arachnophobia!: If you're not so fond of spiders, you may find kindred spirits in other spiders!

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Conotoxinology (CONE SNAIL VENOM) with Joshua Torres & Sabah Ul-Hasan: Predatory. Sneaky. Deadly. Lifesavers? You think you don’t care about cone snails. But that’s about to change. Conotoxinologists Dr. Sabah Ul-Hasan and Dr. Joshua Torres study these spiral-shelled hunters of the sea. Why all the fuss? Because their venom – and the microbes that live in it — may hold medical magic that can help us solve problems related to pain and insulin and much more. Also: how long can you live after a cigarette snail strikes you? What happens to researchers who get stung? How is venom harvested? Should you ever pick one up? The docs have all the answers.

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The e-DNA Revolution: How environmental DNA is transforming what we know about our lakes, oceans and the past.

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Beishanlong - Episode 209: Interview with Jessie Atterholt who described a new dinosaur from Utah, and more