Wildlife

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Donut-Shaped Planets, Hot Aluminum Foil, Why Fish Wiggle, and A Woman Who Can’t Feel Fear

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Learn why fish never quit wiggling; how a donut-shaped planet is technically possible; what researchers have learned from “S.M.,” the woman who can’t feel fear; and why you can touch aluminum foil in a hot oven.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: You Have A Type, Harmful Shark Myths, and Why Airplane Engines Have Spirals

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Learn about the truth behind harmful myths about sharks to help you celebrate Shark Week; the surprising purpose of the spiral on airplane engines; and how you can supercharge your relationships with research that shows you really do have a “type.”

Curiosity Daily Podcast: A Town Where Wireless Signals Are Banned, Why Fish Stink, and a Personality Health Test

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Learn about why wireless signals are completely banned from Green Bank, West Virginia; why fish stinks but chicken doesn’t; and how to find out if you have a healthy personality.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Lying to Seem Honest, The Physics of the ‘Cheerios Effect,’ and Wasps that Recognize Faces

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Learn about why sometimes people lie to seem more honest; how researchers finally figured out how to explain the Cheerios effect; and what we learned about evolution from studying Northern paper wasps, which can recognize each other’s faces.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Foods to Curb Sleep Deprivation, Light Levels Affect How Cold You Feel, and Kangaroo Pouches

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Learn about why the amount of light you see affects how cold you feel; what’s inside a kangaroo’s pouch; and, foods that can curb the effects of sleep deprivation.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Persuading Others When Facts Don’t Seem to Matter (w/ Lee Hartley Carter), Cross-Dressing Cuttlefish

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Learn about how some male cuttlefish “cross-dress” to woo the ladies. You’ll also learn how to persuade people in a world where facts don’t seem to matter, with help from author Lee Hartley Carter.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Building the World’s Largest Wildlife Crossing to Save P-22 (w/ Beth Pratt of #SaveLACougars) and the Health Benefits of the “Helper’s High”

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Beth Pratt, leader of the Save LA Cougars campaign, tells the story of mountain lion P-22 and how he inspired a campaign to build the world’s largest wildlife crossing. Plus: learn about the health benefits of the helper’s high you get when you volunteer.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: How Wildlife Crossings Work (w/ Beth Pratt of #SaveLACougars) and Get Happy by Doing One Creative Thing a Day

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Beth Pratt, leader of the Save LA Cougars campaign, explains how wildlife crossings work and the unique engineering behind the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing. Plus: learn how doing one creative thing every day can boost your happiness.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Seeing Opinions as Facts, Bird-Killing Pisonia Trees, and How Much the Tooth Fairy Pays

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Cities Have Squirrels, How Psychopath Brains Are Different, and a Holographic Brain Device

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In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you learn something new in just a few minutes:

5 Mythical Animals to Uncover in Mysterious Creatures with Forrest Galante

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Forrest Galante uncovers mythical animals in his new show Mysterious Creatures with Forrest Galante.

Jimiyu the Chimp Just Got Vaccinated

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discovery.com details the latest news in animal vaccinations against Covid-19.

Could Sharks Live in Space?

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Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter hypothesizes if and where sharks could survive in space on Space Out for Discovery.com.

Georgia Aquarium Welcomes Beluga Whale Calf

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The beluga whale calf was born at Georgia Aquarium Sunday, May 17th to an adult female named Whisper. Raed more on Discovery.com and don’t miss Animal Planet’s The Aquarium

3 Reasons Why Legends of the Wild Will be Legendary!

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It's "lights! camera! action!" but in the wild! Lifelong friends and wilderness experts Damian Duffy and Matt Hoffmann are taking on extraordinary mysteries of the natural world in the debut of Discovery's new series, Legends of the Wild, premiering Wednesday, April 1st at 10p ET.