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Strange Animals Podcast

by Katherine Shaw

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Latest episodes

Episode 505: Three Animal Mysteries

October 5, 2026 · 11 min

Further reading: Scientists solve a shark murder mystery Stone Age Animal Urine Could Solve a Mystery about Technological Development South African rock art possibly inspired by long-extinct species The porbeagle shark [photo by Andy…
Episode 504: The Mystery Roar

September 28, 2026 · 9 min

Further reading: Wolves on rise in France as bears wreak mountain havoc Can Brown Bears Survive in the Pyrenees? Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. On the evening of August 4, 2019, two…
Episode 503: The Mystery of Typhloesus

September 21, 2026 · 7 min

Further reading: A possible home for a bizarre Carboniferous animal: is Typhloesus a pelagic gastropod? Typhloesus An artist’s rendition of what Typhloesus might have looked like [pic taken from the Nix Illustration link above]: Show…
Episode 502: Back to the Ocean

September 14, 2026 · 11 min

Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Life arose in the oceans and only much later spread to the land. But some land animals returned to the ocean and eventually became fully marine animals…
Episode 501: The Wee Waa Monster and Tupandactylus

September 7, 2026 · 9 min

Further reading: Pterosaur melanosomes support signalling functions for early feathers Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. This month we have a small mystery from Australia, which as far as I…

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NEW Episode 500: Crikey, it’s 500 episodes!

August 31, 2026 · 10 min

It’s our 500th episode! Wow! Thanks to Rosie, Remy and Julien, and Dylan, Emily, and Michelle for their suggestions this week! Further reading: Crikey! Newly Discovered Snake Species Named After Steve Irwin Steve Irwin’s Treesnail A…
Episode 499: The Mystery of Amiskwia

August 24, 2026 · 6 min

Further reading: Cambrian Explosion Month #18: Stem-Gnathifera Ambiguous Amiskwia Amiskwia, possibly [picture taken from above link]: Show transcript: Welcome to the Patreon bonus episode of Strange Animals Podcast for May…
Episode 498: Octopolis

August 17, 2026 · 10 min

Further reading: https://sharonahill.substack.com/ https://metazoan.net/54-octlantis/ https://metazoan.net/109-octopolis-and-octlantis/ Scientists discover an underwater city full of gloomy octopuses The gloomy octopus [photo by Niki…
Episode 497 Megarachne

August 10, 2026 · 8 min

Megarachne as we know it now: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Megarachne is only known from two specimens, neither of which is complete, which adds to the confusion. It lived around 300…
Episode 496 Two Mystery Invertebrates

August 3, 2026 · 8 min

Further reading: How did a tiny bee get to French Polynesia? Eight new species help solve a scientific mystery Secrets in the canopy: Scientists discover 8 striking new bee species in the Pacific Canopy specialist Hylaeus bees highlight…
Episode 495 The Koao

July 27, 2026 · 8 min

Further reading: Gauguin's Magical Mystery Koao Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. The French painter Paul Gauguin moved to the island of Hiva Oa in 1901, less than two years before he died…
Episode 494: Four Water Animals

July 20, 2026 · 7 min

Further reading: New species of extinct vampire-squid-like cephalopod When teeth grow on the body Fossil shark turns into mystery pterosaur Scientists Had Never Seen This Elusive Whale Alive—Until Now Show transcript: Welcome to…