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Ep. 299: Let’s Talk About Dr Charles Campbell And His Malaria-Fighting Bat Towers

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Ep. 298: Let’s Talk About These Unexplained Lights Caught By A Wildlife Camera In Patagonia

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Ep. 297: We Need To Talk About The Time 175 Million Frogs Invaded A Wisconsin Town

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Ep. 296: Toothbrushes And Showerheads Are Covered In Unknown Viruses (And That’s A Good Thing) + Phobos, The Doomed Moon, Is Going To Crash Into Mars

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Ep. 295: What I Learned From Going Blind In Space + “Am I Dying?” The Honest Answer

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Ep. 294: Even Jellyfish Snooze, And It’s Helping Us Understand The Origins Of Sleep

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Bonus! Scrolling While On The Toilet Has Been Linked To Higher Risk Of Hemorrhoids

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Ep. 293: Participants’ Eyes Were Kept Open During A Sleep Study And We Saw Some Things + Neanderthal Dentists Were Drilling Teeth Nearly 60,000 Yrs Ago

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Ep. 292: Abdominal Surgery Removes Mass With A Creature Inside + We Need To Talk About Breakdancing Overuse Syndrome

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Ep. 291: These Moths Can Smell Flowers Using Their Wings + The Oldest Leather Shoe Found, So Far

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Ep. 290: Sperm Whales Sleep Vertically, And They Toot Bubbles To Do It + Looks Like Cave Art Has “Organizational Grammar”

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Let’s Take A Minute To Celebrate National Navajo Code Talkers Day

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Ep. 289: Let’s Talk About A Lake Filled With 5 Million Jellyfish (And Poisonous Gas) + The Time Researchers Farted Into Petri Dishes (For Science)

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Ep. 288: Let’s Talk About A Giant Stone Jar Containing The Remains Of 37 People + A Box That Kept Pig Eyes Working For 10 Hours After Death

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Ep. 287: How The First Diving Suit For Roaches May Save Human Lives + Another First! Ancient Human DNA Recovered From Cave Paintings

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Ep. 286: Rare Confirmed Sighting Of Jellyfish Hunting + Finally, A Study About Salmon On Cocaine

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Ep. 285: We May Know What These 5,200 Holes Are In The Peruvian Andes + One Of The Oldest Supernovas Has Been Discovered (Using A New Method)

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Ep. 284: The Mystery Of The Tiny Mummified Green Hand + These 40,000 Yr Old Marks May Be A Precursor To Writing

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Ep. 283: We Need To Talk About Operation Fishbowl: When The US Nuked Outer Space (Multiple Times)

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Hi Flock! I'm On Vacation This Week... Kinda.
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We Need To Talk About The People Of The Great Dismal Swamp

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Ep. 282: These Tropical Spiders Build Giant Doppelgängers As Decoys + These Spiders ‘Fish’ For Prey Using Fireflies As Bait

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Ep. 281: Let’s Talk About The Time Birds Predicted Bad Weather

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Ep. 280: Hummingbirds Drink The Alcohol Equivalent Of A Beer A Day + An Ancient Snake Was Discovered In A Drawer, And It’s Officially ‘Weird’

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Ep. 279: New Study Finds Raccoons Solve Puzzles For The Fun Of It + Bull Sharks Form Social Relationships With Specific Friends

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Ep. 278: Man’s Lung Tumor Turns Out To Be A Toy Swallowed 40 Years Ago + Let’s Talk About The Deepest Living Land Animal

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Ep. 277: These Paired Roaches Show Commitment Through Cannibalism And Aggression + In This Parasitic Species, Every Ant Is A Queen

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Encore Presentation: WTF Is International Workers' Day And Why Should We Care?

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Eat This! The Science Of Making Fruits And Veggies Last Longer

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Ep. 276: Scientists May Have Seen A Star Collapse Into A Black Hole Without Exploding + Patient Is Kept Alive 48 Hours Without Lungs

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Ep. 275: We Need To Talk About This 5-Way (Galaxy Merger) + Cloud 9, A New Kind Of Celestial Object

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Ep. 274: Let’s Talk About Lazarus Species: Animals Once Thought To Be Extinct But Are Later Rediscovered

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Ep. 273: Liquid Nitrogen Infused Cocktail Popped A Man’s Stomach Like A Balloon + Diseased Baby Ants Ask Their Nestmates To Poison Them

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Ep. 272: Let’s Talk About ‘The Prince’ Who Was Mauled To Death 27,000 Yrs Ago + Superkilonovas Are A Thing. And One May Have Popped Off Twice

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Ep. 271: We Now Know How Pigs Ended Up On Islands In The Pacific + Why Petting A Cat Leads To A Zap (Or Rather, Why Rubbing Is Needed To Create Static Electricity)

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Ep. 270: Let’s Talk About The Time Garfield Phones And Black Leather Victorian Shoes Mysteriously Washed Ashore

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Ep. 269: JWST Discovers An Exoplanet So Strange, Even Researchers Are Speechless + Ancient Bees Laid Eggs In Fossilized Tooth Sockets

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Ep. 268: To No One’s Surprise, Yelling At Rats Affected Their Fertility + That Time It Rained Fish In India (And Other Places)

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Ep. 267: The Act Of Kissing Dates Back 21 Million Years + The Earliest Known Jawed Ancestor, So Far

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Ep. 266: The Anthropology Of Farting With Dr Kirsten Bell

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Ep. 265: New Species Of Pterosaur Discovered (Hidden Inside Fossilized Puke) + Imposter Queens Trick Worker Ants Into Killing Their Own Mother

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Ep. 264: Even Though You Don’t Want To, We Need To Talk About The World’s Largest Spiderweb + First Of Its Kind ‘Butt Drag Fossil’ Discovered In South Africa

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Ep. 263: First UK Patient To Have Tumor Removed Through An Eye Socket + Toddler Accidentally Eats Gonorrhea From A Lab Dish

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Ep. 262: New Monster Black Hole May Be The Largest So Far And Was Found In A New Way + This Pulsar Spins 592 Times A Second. And That’s Just The Beginning

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New Year Inspiration: Here’s A Small Idea That Literally (Re)Grew A Coastline

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Vultures Just Keep Giving: Here’s How They Can Help Solve Crime

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Ep. 261: Rogue Planet Growing At A Rate Of 6 Billion Tons Per Second + How Reindeer Help In The Fight Against Climate Change

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Ep. 260: Multi-Generational Vulture Nests Hold Nearly 700 Years Of Human Artifacts + The World’s Oldest Forests Have Been Found

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Ep. 259: First Non-Human Creature To Navigate Using The Milky Way… Is The Dung Beetle + The Earliest Supernovas May Have Created Water (Which Is Super Important)

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The Weird Chemistry Threatening Priceless Paintings
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Ep. 258: These Smoked Human Remains Are The Oldest Known Mummies, So Far + Knife Brakes Off In Man’s Chest And He Didn’t Notice For 8 Years

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Ep. 257: How Thumbnails Helped Rodents Spread Over The World + These Queen Ants Produce 2 Different Species. An Absolute First.

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Ep. 256: 800 Year Old Corpse In Well Verifies Norse Saga + This 26 Million Year Old Hornless Rhino Was The Largest Land Mammal, So Far

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Ep. 255: Let’s Talk About The Sharpest Teeth To Ever Exist, So Far + You Need To See What Came Out Of The Sun Recently. It’s A Lot.

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Ep. 254: Jellyfish Overpower A Nuclear Power Plant. Again. + Parasitic Worm Could Help Create New Opioid Treatments

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The Call Is Coming From Inside The House: What Horror Films Teach Us About Us

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Ep. 253: Thanks To Wolves, Aspen Trees Thrive In Yellowstone After 80 Yrs + Woylies, An Adorable Endangered Marsupial, Just Made A Huge Comeback

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Ep. 252: We Now Know Why Alligators Eat Rocks + Where The Potato Came From. It’s The Love Child Of The Tomato.

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Ep. 251: Boy Band Concert Left Teen With Bubbles In Her Chest + Surgeon Accidentally Transplants Tumor Into His Own Hand

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Ep. 250: Why, Yes, It Can Rain Millions Of Spiders + Romancing The Kākāpō: How To Breed New Zealand’s Most Endangered Bird

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Bonus! Girl, We Need To Talk About 'The Danger Of A Single Story'

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Ep. 249: Researchers Gave Drugs To Spiders Just To See What Would Happen + Superb Starlings And Their ‘Superb’ Friendships

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Ep. 248: How Covering Cow Poop With A Tarp Can Cut 80% Of Methane Emissions + Using Ear Wax To Screen For Parkinson’s Is A Thing Now

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Ep. 247: That Time Black Widow Venom Entered Through A Woman’s Eyeball + Sometimes Worms Get Together To Form A Super Organism

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Ep. 246: Finally, A Study With Harbor Seals Playing Video Games + Another Study With Fruit Flies On Cocaine. Here’s Why This All Matters.

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Ep. 245: Putting Vampire Bats On Treadmills Is Weird. Their Metabolism Is Weirder + The Longest Running Laboratory Experiment, So Far

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Ep. 244: How The Hell Did This 1200 Ton Boulder Get Up Here? + Crater Left Behind By Dino-Killing Asteroid Became Teeming with Life

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Ep. 243: This May Be The Smallest Galaxy In The Universe + This Newly Discovered Larva Uses A ‘Face’ On Its Butt To Infiltrate Termite Colonies

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Ep. 242: How A Family Of 4 Tried To Save Themselves From Mt. Vesuvius + Making Art For 45 Minutes A Day Can Lower Stress Levels

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Ep. 241: Let’s Talk About These 2 Planets Disintegrating Before Our Eyes + This ‘Zombie Star’ Moving Through The Galaxy At 110,000MPH

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We Need To Talk About This 2000 Yr Old Birthday Invitation

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Ep. 240: This Tiny Caterpillar Defends The Tiniest Territory Known + We Need To Talk About The Man Vs Horse Marathon

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Ep. 239: For A Certain Spider, Eating Siblings Is Taboo (Unless They’re Dead) + If Given The Choice, Cockatoos Use Condiments To Flavor Food

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Ep. 238: Shark Sounds Have Been Recorded For The First Time + The Iguanas Of Fiji Came From North America In Epic Voyage

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Introducing DRILLED, Season 12
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Ep. 237: Lets Talk About Saturn’s 128 Newly Discovered Moons + This Teeny Galaxy One-Millionth The Size Of The Milky Way

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Ep. 236: How Growing Weed With Bat Poop Led To 2 Deaths + Yes, You Can Use A Tooth To Restore Sight In A Blind Patient

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Ep. 235: Drone Footage Shows Narwhals Using That Big Ol’ Tooth For Play + Let’s Talk About The Oldest Known Quasar (It’s Huge Too)

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Ep. 234: Another Day, Another Parasite In A Person’s Brain + Florida Man’s ‘Carnivore Diet’ Leads To His Hands Seeping Cholesterol

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WTF Is International Worker’s Day And Why Should We Care?

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Ep. 233: American Crocodiles Have Made A Comeback, Thanks To A Nuclear Plant In Florida + These Crocodiles Are Overheating Thanks To Climate Change

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Ep. 232: When Exposed To Currency, African Grey Parrots Chose To Share + Another Study That Reveals The Amazing Lives Of Honeybees

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Ep. 231: Let’s Talk About This Curious Case Of Cannibalism From 18,000 Years Ago + How Earth’s Mini-Moon Mystery Was Solved: It’s More Moon

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Ep. 230: Never Before Seen Fungus Infects Spiders (Turning Them Into Zombies) + Let’s Talk About Sea Vomit (An Invasive Species Off The Canadian Coast)

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Ep. 229: Let’s Talk About This 9000 Year Old Female Shaman Burial Ground + The Oldest Known Evidence Of Cats ‘Making Biscuits’

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Bonus! It’s Podcasthon 2025! Let’s Change The World (For The Better This Time)

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Ep. 228: Our Sun Will Eject A Superflare With The Energy Of 1 Trillion Nukes + Supermassive Blackhole Is Shooting Its Own Beam Of Energy Right At Us

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Ep. 227: Man Knocks Down Wall In His Basement, Finds An Underground City + The Wild Story Behind IKEA’s Product Names

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Ep. 226: Let’s Talk About The Largest Known Eagle To Ever Exist + The Discovery Of Male Spiders That Care For Their Young

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Ep. 225: Cerebrospinal Fluid From Young Mice Improves The Memory Of Old Mice + This Is What Kids Smell Like Apparently

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Ep. 224: How Gophers Saved A Part Of Mt. St. Helens + Tis No Shipwreck, It’s The World’s Largest Coral Colony

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Ep. 223: E-Tattoos That function Like An EEG + Let’s Talk About The World’s Largest Known Cave Because It’s Insane

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Ep. 222: How To Fit A Dozen Larvae In One Man’s Eye + ‘Corneal Melt’ Is As Awful As It Sounds

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Ep. 221: Lets Talk About The Black Frogs Of Chernobyl + The Absolute Bonkers History Of The Reclining Birth Position

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Ep. 220: Giant Rats Could Soon Fight The Illegal Wildlife Trade + Extinct Tortoise Found!! (Alone On A Remote Island)

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Ep. 219: Let’s Talk About The Oldest Naturally Preserved Human Brains Discovered, So Far

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Bonus! Happy New Year! Here’s A Live Dissection And Experiment

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Bonus! The Gift You Never Knew You Needed: Where Camels Really Come From

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Ep. 218: 2 Billion Year Old Rock Found With Live Microbes + The Rapid Evolution Of Mozambique’s Elephants

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Ep. 217: We Need To Talk About These ‘Grave Robbing’ Badgers + These Fish That Can Count

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