Hair

Mammals pretty much have the market cornered on hair, and you know all the other types of animals are jealous of us. Imagine a little lizard with bangs or something? It just wouldn’t be right. Sorry!Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out SciShowTangents.org![Truth or Fail]Camarillo white horsehttps://books.google.com/books?id=WyYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA216&lpg=RA1-PA216&dq=%22telescopic+sight%22+spider+silk#v=onepage&q=%22telescopic%20sight%22%20spider%20silk&f=falsehttps://vgl.ucdavis.edu/services/horse/CamarilloWhite.phphttps://www.camarillowhitehorses.org/history_camarillo_white_horses.htmlAfrican crested rathttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2011.1169https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/08/case-poisonous-rathttps://www.livescience.com/15360-crested-rat-poison-hairs-kills.htmlMalabar giant squirrelhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/04/indian-giant-squirrels-colors-camouflage/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2017/jan/08/colour-changing-cats-warn-radioactive-waste-nuclear-plants-distant-descendants[Fact Off]Hyena poop hair preservationGraphene hair dyehttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/nu-gfn031218.phphttps://www.cell.com/chem/fulltext/S2451-9294(18)30082-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2451929418300822%3Fshowall%3Dtrue[Ask the Science Couch]Grey hairwww.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-hair-turn-gray/https://science.sciencemag.org/content/307/5710/720https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(05)00293-X?https://www.fasebj.org/doi/full/10.1096/fj.08-125435Stresswww.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/22/stress-speeds-up-hair-greying-process-science-confirmshttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1935-3https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/hair-turn-gray-2017091812226[Butt One More Thing]Trichobezoar https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3083501/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.