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Today: #124 in Kids & Family, Ireland on our combined chart.

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Latest episodes

  • The Scarecrow: Scaring Birds with Mary Roach

    October 15, 2026 · 23 min

    It’s an epic humans-versus-birds showdown in this follow-up to last week’s crows episode! Ever since humans started farming, birds have been eating our crops. And for centuries, we’ve been trying to figure out how to frighten them…

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    October 8, 2026 · 31 min

    Spooky season is upon us and so we are bringing you a tale of Halloween’s eeriest avian mascot. Emma Terry is friends with basically everyone in her town. She personifies a rainbow—she has bouncy blonde hair, sparkly cat-eye glasses, and a…

  • The Hideout: A Monarch Butterfly Mystery

    September 24, 2026 · 34 min

    As the leaves begin to change and the air cools, monarch butterflies disappear from our skies and journey …where?  The mysterious migration of this iconic butterfly stumped scientists for decades. Until an intercepted message on a…

  • The Snow Beast: A Mystery Animal (Replay)

    September 10, 2026 · 30 min

    Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a helicopter to a remote Arctic island near the North Pole, spending her afternoons scavenging for ancient treasures on the ground. One day…

  • The Wallowers: A Buffalo Comeback Story

    August 27, 2026 · 33 min

    Ervin Carlson grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana hearing stories about buffalo (aka American bison) who once roamed the land by the hundreds of thousands. These giant beasts weighed up to 2000 pounds, were almost 7 feet tall…

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  • Celestials: A Bedtime Snail Story Experiment

    August 20, 2026 · 14 min

    Meet François Tranquille. He's a snail. He's French. And this is the first episode of a little experiment we're calling Celestials: Bedtime Stories from Terrestrials. Restful tales, bedtime meditations, and the occasional lullaby, designed…

  • The Fuzzy Ruckus: The Power of Lichen (Replay)

    August 13, 2026 · 29 min

    Artist Ashley (Ash) Eliza Williams was so shy growing up that they found it hard to speak to people.  Instead, they withdrew from the world of humans and found comfort in the forest, where they spent hours exploring, scavenging, and…

  • The Jimothy: Seattle Raccoon Steals Hearts

    August 6, 2026 · 30 min

    If you’ve been on the internet recently, you might’ve heard of Jimothy—a raccoon from Seattle who went viral. Jimothy t-shirts, murals, tattoos, and tribute songs popped up across the country. We wanted to understand why this raccoon had…

  • Dung Beetles from Just the Zoo of Us

    July 30, 2026 · 35 min

    It’s summer break! So, while Terrestrials takes a summer breather,, we’re bringing you a show that we really love. It’s called Just the Zoo of Us, and it’s produced by Ellen and Christian Weatherford, a married couple with a shared love of…

  • The Charmer: King Cobras' FANGtastic Powers

    July 16, 2026 · 36 min

    Lulu has been terrified of snakes all her life. But strangely, her oldest son  has been obsessed with them since he was two. So to understand his fascination, she called a snake expert who might also be one of the least afraid people on…

  • The Travelers Update: A Moon Tree Grows in New York

    July 2, 2026 · 40 min

    The director of horticulture at Madison Square Park, Stephanie Lucas, spends her days caring for over 300 trees in the heart of New York City. One day in 2022, she saw a callout from NASA giving away seeds that had traveled to the moon…

  • The DADventure: Wild Animal Dads from Owl Monkeys to Seahorses

    June 18, 2026 · 34 min

    What does it really mean to be a dad? In the animal world, fathers have long been painted as aggressive or absent. At best providers and protectors, but certainly not caregivers. And yet for every tale of a lion or chimp dad eating its own…

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About the show

Welcome, nature lovers, to the home of the Terrestrials podcast and family-friendly Radiolab episodes about nature. Every other week, host Lulu Miller will take you on a nature walk to encounter a plant or animal behaving in ways that will surprise you. Squirrels that can regrow their brains, octopuses that can outsmart their human captors, honeybees that can predict the future. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew. You’ll hear a range of nature stories on this podcast. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes, full of original songs (by “The Songbud” Alan Goffinski) that tell a fantastical-sounding story about nature that is 100% true. Sometimes these will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, leafiest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. The stories that drop here will always be family-friendly and safe for kids. They will always be sound-rich and full of the vivid, gripping storytelling you’ve come to expect from Radiolab. They will always transport you to the beyond-human world: into the depths of the ocean, into jungles, prairies, forests, space, snow, wildflower fields and beyond. Sometimes we’ll encounter something so wild we just have to break out into song about it! Don’t worry, good voices not required. Join us on this adventure!