Peer Reviewing Animal Crossing!

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Today on the show, we review the Animal Crossing game from a scientific perspective. We’ll be fact-checking some Blathers facts about evolutionary biology! Can goldfish grow bigger than a foot? Do they have teeth in their throats? Can tarantulas shoot butt hair at you? Discover this and more as we answer the age old question: what is Blathers the owl hiding? We attempt to answer all these questions with our guests Maggie Mae Fisher and Adam Ganser.Footnotes: GIANT GOLDFISH Pharyngeal/Throat Teeth! Yikes! Bitterlings Spawning Using a Mussel (video) Coconut Octopus (Video)! Spider Shooting Urticating Hairs Mantis Attacking Hummingbird Video (WARNING: anti-bird content. Hummingbird does get saved in the end though). A Nice Detailed Coprolite (Fossilized Dung!) Dunkleosteus Fossil Megacerops Reconstruction Diplodocus's Ridiculous Proportions We got Creature Feature T-Shirts! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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