identifier taxonID type subtype format title description accessURI furtherInformationURL language Rating UsageTerms Owner agentID 31464531 cda004436ab8c8599bba40df53ae1c3c http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Chinook Salmon

Can painted wooden fish on a schoolyard fence change human behavior and help clean up the ocean for the real salmon? Stream of Dreams in British Columbia thinks so, and a lot of wooden fish and some 100,000 school kids later, they have some intriguing results to show for their effort.  

 

Image: Willoughby Elementary School, Stream of Dreams Mural

 

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Duration: 4:21
Published: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:19:33 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/31/31464531.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/chinook-salmon-1 en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 30892522 90331642dcd1f7063f24a783090fb722 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Parasitic Wasps

Sometimes it’s hard to tell where one organism stops and another begins. That’s especially true with the kind of evolutionary arms race that takes place between parasites and their unwilling hosts. It’s biological warfare at the level of the genes. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Athens, Georgia, USA.

 

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Duration: 5:30
Published: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:58:48 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/22/30892522.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/parasitic-wasps en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 30298955 d96c251b88b862242853df87e1d8c915 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Mangroves

Follow researchers Candy Feller and Dennis Whigham as they scramble, climb, crawl, and creep through the tangled roots of a mangrove forest. Along the way, learn what’s threatening these unique ecosystems where the ocean meets the land. Studying these flooded forests is a challenge, but pursuing science in this strange landscape has its own rewards.

 

Photo credit: Gary M.Stolz, BioLib.cz

 

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Duration: 4:00
Published: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:57:33 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/55/30298955.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/mangroves-0 en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 30298954 a79b99e181da5a8165de7192a36a30ff http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Western silvery aster

When biologist Diana Bizecki Robson sits in the middle of the tallgrass prairie in a park near Winnipeg, she sees stars—the tiny, bright flowers of the western silvery aster. The prairie may seem a world away from our modern lives, but Robson shows how this endangered ecosystem’s flora and fauna are intimately connected with our own well-being.

 

Image Credit: Chicago Botanic Garden, CC BY-NC-SA

 

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Duration: 5:32
Published: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 18:05:23 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/54/30298954.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/western-silvery-aster en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 30298953 7feedd2a6a7758ffcde133af089dc1f0 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Black-tailed prairie dogs

Over the past century the grasslands of northern Mexico have been taken over by shrubby mesquite and turned to desert. Ecologist Gerardo Ceballos is on a mission to turn them back. Can he restore an entire prairie ecosystem? Ceballos hopes he can, with the help of an unlikely ally. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Chihuahua.

 

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Image Credit: Arthur Chapman, Flickr: EOL Images. CC BY-NC-SA

 

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Duration: 5:28
Published: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:17:45 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/53/30298953.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/black-tailed-prairie-dogs en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 30250484 ffa0c2d16e087bc1464e66979c8a1e40 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Riftia

Host Ari Daniel Shapiro dives deep to discover a white worm as tall as your refrigerator that breathes through bright red feathery “lips.” This isn’t a creature from outer space. Meet Riftia, a tube worm that lives in deep-sea vents, and learn the surprising lessons this denizen of the abyss is teaching scientists about life on Earth.

 
Photo credit: Vicki Ferrini, Marvin Lilley
 

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Duration: 4:14
Published: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:18:27 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/84/30250484.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/riftia en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 30195794 ee49bde0896d7a3cb19de47db2b6d054 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Sea Slugs

Come one, come all! See the amazing, the astonishing, half-animal, half-plant! Journey to Tampa Bay, Florida, where scientist Skip Pierce and one of his students first made a remarkable discovery twenty years ago. Meet Elysia chlorotica, a bright green, solar-powered, algae-slurping sea slug that’s still turning our understanding of the classification of life upside down.

 

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Duration: 5:18
Published: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:11:25 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/94/30195794.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/sea-slugs en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 30195793 bcb2bbfa78b600b211e5e75fa9be3eb4 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Springtails

Springtails are tiny creatures that live underfoot in the soil and leaf litter. Most people are not even aware they exist. Until 2000, biologists classified these curious animals as insects. Then new DNA evidence forced scientists like Louis Deharveng to revise their thinking and redraw a branch on the tree of life.

 

Image Credit: Miroslav Deml, BioLib.cz. CC BY

 

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Duration: 5:30
Published: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:13:08 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/93/30195793.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/springtails en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 29276153 acbcb82a7adba9cab08a832beb066fa7 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Fungi

This week’s podcast begins with a riddle about a life form that’s all around us, yet rarely seen. Working under cover, it sends its ghostly tendrils into almost every corner of the terrestrial world. We associate it with death and decay, but life as we know it would be impossible without it. Come for a walk in the woods with Ari Daniel Shapiro and learn how this mysterious form of life, neither animal nor vegetable, shapes our world.

 

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Duration: 5:29
Published: Wed, 02 May 2012 14:22:48 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/53/29276153.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/fungi en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 29276152 1918b31954b5e4eea651dc52a14a3a43 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Chaffinch and Winter Wren

Every morning when he walks the dog, retired professor of natural history Peter Slater can identify as many as thirty birds by their song alone. On a walk in a Scottish town with Ari Daniel Shapiro, Slater explains what two common songsters, the chaffinch and winter wren, are singing about, and how even city dwellers can learn to “bird by ear” in their own neighborhoods, with rewarding results.

 

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Duration: 5:21
Published: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:30:18 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/52/29276152.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/chaffinch-and-winter-wren en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 29276151 80f6a7471dc521b96a26954f4d63fd73 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Bowhead Whale

Writer Karen Romano Young takes an icebreaker to Barrow, Alaska, to join in the festival of Naluqatak and learn about the intimate relationship between the Inupiat Eskimos and the bowhead whale. Listen as she tells Ari Daniel Shapiro how the whole community turns out for whale hunt, how the bowhead nourishes the Inupiat, both physically and spiritually—and how the hunt is proving to be an unexpected gift to scientists.

 

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Duration: 5:14
Published: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:36:55 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/51/29276151.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/bowhead-whale en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 29276150 592aa7e371f6321dc218a2420d3ed564 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Right Whale

Hear how research unfolds at sea. Playing female whale calls into the water, researcher Susan Parks suddenly finds herself the center of attention of a group of male North Atlantic Right Whales. Will she be able to gather crucial data before a breaching whale crashes down on her boat?

 

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Image Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

 

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Duration: 5:45
Published: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:27:58 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/50/29276150.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/right-whale en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658117 d7b6d2faf16fc11927318f4881b2b187 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Lichens

Most of us walk past lichen-covered rocks, splotched with grays, greens, and golds, without giving them a closer look. Ari Daniel Shapiro visits with mycologist Anne Pringle and graduate student Benjamin Wolfe to learn about these amazing symbiotic organisms, formed when a fungus partners with an algae. Each lichen can host an entire microcosm, a microbial landscape teeming with life. These worlds-within-worlds are proving an invaluable tool for scientists studying our changing landscapes.

 

Umbilicaria. Photo Credit: Benjamin Wolfe

 

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Duration: 5:26
Published: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:37:25 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/17/28658117.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/lichens en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658116 52203dd4f6a58a4fe51b2bce505dc55f http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg E.O. Wilson

Renowned evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson has spent his long career cracking the code of ants. It’s the ants’ ability to communicate and form tight-knit societies that lies behind their extraordinary evolutionary success. Ari Daniel Shapiro visits Wilson in his office at Harvard to learn the nature of the ants’ special language—and what’s in an ant’s name. Photo Credit: Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology

 

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Duration: 5:25
Published: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:44:24 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/16/28658116.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/eo-wilson en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658115 7614d15b39496c86785a04f051aef3fa http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Quinine Tree

In a large greenhouse at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri, there grows a slender sapling of Cinchona pubescens, a tree that has played a remarkable role in human history. Journeying to this artificial tropical forest under glass, Ari Daniel Shapiro asks curators Carmen Ulloa Ulloa and Charlotte Taylor just what makes this famous “fever tree” special.

 

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Duration: 5:07
Published: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:04:41 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/15/28658115.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/quinine-tree en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658114 3a386c24fa417f1ee5efb93d4e521fa6 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Sea Cucumbers

What reef animal comes in a rainbow of crazy colors, can throw out its innards to immobilize predators, then creep away and regrow a brand-new stomach? It’s the sea cucumber, prized as a gastronomic delight by some cultures and beginning to yield some of its secrets to scientists. Follow host Ari Daniel Shapiro from a Chinatown market to the reefs of Fiji to learn more about this amazing creature.

 

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Duration: 4:10
Published: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:02:25 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/14/28658114.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/sea-cucumbers-0 en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658113 f00f425286289da16af3c37b385cbc4c http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Great White Shark

Students from Martha's Vineyard Regional High School in Massachusetts and La Salle Academy in Rhode Island question shark researcher Greg Skomal about this charismatic predator at the top of the ocean food chain. Learn some surprising facts and the answers to such questions as what preys on the Great White and do they mate for life?

 

Photo credit: Klaus Jost, Animal Diversity Web

 

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Duration: 4:45
Published: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:32:06 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/13/28658113.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/great-white-shark-0 en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658112 cc2687762a14a03597f923da16d9d81c http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Coral

Coral reefs are bustling cities of marine life, until rising ocean temperatures turn them into ghost towns. Can reefs spring back from devastating bleaching events? Ari Daniel Shapiro and researcher Dr. Randi Rotjan of the New England Aquarium, journey to the remote Phoenix Islands to find out.

 

Photo credit: Page Gill, NOAA

 

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Duration: 5:07
Published: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:53:42 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/12/28658112.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/coral-0 en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658111 c2436d4a8fa0daeda5f0c54913056deb http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Red-Shouldered Soapberry Bug

In the lab at American University in Washington, DC, evolutionary biologist David Angelini and graduate student Stacey Baker are studying a snazzy red-and-black insect called the red-shouldered soapberry bug. These tiny insects with the big name are speedy and hard to catch—and speedy in other ways, too, as Ari Daniel Shapiro discovers.

 

Photo Credit: Crystal Perreira, Soapberrybug.org

 

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Duration: 5:29
Published: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:40:50 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/11/28658111.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/red-shouldered-soapberry-bug en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658110 0f64789a46cc1a7e548bc4ed183f8d32 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Red Paper Lantern Jellyfish

Vacuumed up from its habitat a mile down in the ocean, the red paper lantern jelly may not look like much. Mostly water, it’s so fragile that once brought to the surface it’s reduced to a tattered blob in a jar. But this unassuming jellyfish has lessons for scientists. It’s teaching researchers in Japan how intricately life is connected down in the ocean’s deep, dark depths—and how the fate of this small red lantern sheds light on the fragility of life close to home.

 

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Duration: 5:33
Published: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:35:07 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/10/28658110.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/red-paper-latern-jellyfish-0 en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658109 12933c84593498908fbcd8a4dc73799e http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Water Hyacinth

It may have pretty purple flowers, but Eichhornia crassipes can be a green menace. Introduced to Africa from the neotropics, this invasive weed is choking Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest lake. Water hyacinth has carpeted vast stretches of the lake, fouling fishing nets and blocking harbors. Ari Daniel Shapiro teams with reporter in the field, Gastive Oyani, to speak with local fishermen and botanist Helida Oyieke. They learn how the lake and the lives of the people who depend on it are responding to this weedy challenge.

 

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Duration: 5:30
Published: Tue, 03 May 2011 17:32:59 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/09/28658109.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/water-hyacinth en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658108 f69f934aa4951298b5c6101c64ff3920 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Polar Bears

In this podcast, host Ari Daniel Shapiro relates two close calls with polar bears. Listen as Heather Cray recalls how, dumped by a storm on a small Arctic island, she got an unexpected wake-up call. And when researcher Steve Amstrup accidentally crashed through the roof of a polar bear’s den, no one could predict what happened next.

 

Photo credit: Sea Mammal Research Unit, World Register of Marine Species

 

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Duration: 4:37
Published: Wed, 18 May 2011 18:10:15 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/08/28658108.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/polar-bears en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658107 7d8ab9be8bc23310ae369b819775e5fb http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Giant Squid

How do you get two dead Giant Squid the size of a school bus from a fishing boat in Spain to a museum in Washington, DC, USA? Call in the Navy! Find out how Operation Calamari unfolded and how the museum managed to put their new Giant Squid on display.

 

Photo Credit: Glenn Rankin, Smithsonian Institution

 

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Duration: 3:33
Published: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:59:18 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/07/28658107.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/giant-squid-1 en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658106 39c64e48eec116a4f6692ab4020843e3 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Insects of Costa Rica

In this episode, EOL education director Marie Studer journeys to Costa Rica to experience firsthand the astonishing variety of insect life in this tiny Central American nation—20,000 different kinds of butterflies and moths alone!

 

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Duration: 4:52
Published: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:23:37 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/06/28658106.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/insects en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658103 b6741ddedeb1f07cf7d9c721c90be459 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Box Jellyfish

Learn how three fiery, painful stings during an early morning swim in Hawaii changed the life of researcher Angel Yanagihara. Once the young biochemist had recovered from her box jelly encounter, Carybdea alata had her full attention. Now she works to unlock the secrets of venom of these beautiful, and sometimes dangerous, angels of the sea. Photo credit: Alvaro Migotto

 

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Duration: 5:01
Published: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:05:26 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/03/28658103.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/box-jellyfish en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658102 5a033ab2b67f556397cb4a42edd409cc http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Branch-tip Spiders

The hills near Missoula, Montana, are changing, native grasses and other plants increasingly squeezed out by nonnative plants. Knapweed, cinquefoil, and other weeds aren’t only changing the look of this ecosystem but its very structure. As ecologist Dean Pearson’s research has shown, however, some species are benefitting from the changed habitat in unexpected ways. You just have to look closely to see them.

 

Photo Credit: Dean Pearson

 

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Duration: 5:02
Published: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:30:48 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/02/28658102.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/branch-tip-spiders en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658101 45983a4453549a39ddf672f5509d08b4 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

What is it like to be eyeball to eyeball with a fish the size of a Volkswagen? Learn about the process of tagging tuna and how those tags are revealing surprises that might help save tuna from their own popularity in sushi restaurants.

 

Photo credit: Opencage, Japan

 

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Duration: 5:08
Published: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:52:27 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/01/28658101.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/altantic-tuna-1 en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658100 b25c1a41af82f1dcb2562d9d0445e483 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Marine Iguana

No iguana wants to be cooked alive on a hot rock and then served up as dinner for a Galapagos hawk. But it turns out the marine iguanas have a strategy that warns them of the presence of hawks they can’t see. They learned to tune in to a kind of police scanner…the alarm calls of mockingbirds.

 

Photo Credit: Phil Myers, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan

 

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Duration: 4:13
Published: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:06:48 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/00/28658100.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/marine-iguana en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658099 ee347d109ae33823e1e6ffceb72a85b4 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Muskox

There’s a chill in the air this week as we travel to a mountain range in Norway in search of muskoxen, Ice Age survivors that once roamed the far north alongside the woolly mammoth. Introduced to Norway from Greenland in the 1940s, muskoxen flourished on these cool, dry slopes until 2006, when the seemingly healthy animals began to die. Ari Daniel Shapiro investigates the muskox mystery.

 

Photo Credit:U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

 

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Duration: 5:00
Published: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:01:58 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/99/28658099.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/muskox en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658098 1fe989a9c17c8957a46033a83883b258 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Martens

On the forested mountain slopes of the Basque country, we follow two Spanish biologists on the track of a pair of secretive mammals. Pine and stone martens are elusive carnivores that make their homes among the moss-covered, ancient oaks, leaving few clues to their presence. Determining just how changes to the forest are affecting the two species requires some scientific detective work—and the willingness to gather some rather smelly data.

 

Photo Credit: Martes martes, SD Lund, BioPix

 

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Duration: 5:48
Published: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:19:34 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/98/28658098.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/martens en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658097 adb5fa4653f22bca04486e0ebcd89e23 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Ediacaran Fossils

When the cod fishery collapsed in Newfoundland in the early 1990s, the hopes of the local fish harvesters collapsed with it. Hundreds of Newfoundlanders moved away and businesses that depended on the cod fishery closed. But retired schoolteacher Kit Ward of Portugal Cove South wasn’t content to watch her community vanish with the cod. She and some friends teamed up to find a solution that was right under their feet, in the reddish rocks of Mistaken Point.

 

Photo credit: Phoebe A. Cohen

 

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Duration: 5:10
Published: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:39:35 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/97/28658097.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/ediacaran-fossils en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658096 0413a8262c5dac9ab4f314fc9fc384b0 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Dinoflagellates

Science contributor Josh Kurz, tells the story of dinoflagellates through “music from the bottom of the food chain.” There are “billions of these microscopic creatures in every bucket of the salty sea,” Kurz reveals. Learn which dinoflagellate has a special glow, and which one is responsible for killing more people every year than sharks.

 

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Duration: 5:45
Published: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:59:06 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/96/28658096.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/dinoflagellates-0 en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658095 052e685f742cc6def44cd1f941036e50 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Red Knot

The red knot is a tiny shorebird that undertakes a mind-boggling migration from the tip of South America all the way to the Arctic Circle. One of the few stops on that marathon journey is the Delaware Bay, an estuary that offers a banquet for migrating birds. Here, for some 20,000 years, red knots have flocked by the thousands to fuel their journey. But humans may be writing a tragic ending to this extraordinary evolutionary success story, unless biologists armed with an unusual tool can win a race against time.

 

Photo Credit: Kevin Karlson

 

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Duration: 5:47
Published: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:12:33 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/95/28658095.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/red-knot en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658094 bfa3a642eafe3d732ff9a099928c7db8 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Greenland Shark

Join shark expert Greg Skomal as he ventures under the Arctic ice in search of the Greenland shark. Sharing this icy, blue twilight with an apex predator is a thrill--so long as you don’t end up being mistaken for a ringed seal, the shark’s favorite meal. In this episode, we’ll learn how Skomal’s research is revealing how these evolutionary survivors endure despite astonishing obstacles. 

 

Photo Credit: Jeffrey Gallant (GEERG)

 

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Duration: 5:33
Published: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:45:03 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/94/28658094.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/greenland-shark en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658093 b75068da7d3f396054b1a6183e60670c http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Sea Grapes Google Earth Tour

“Sea grapes” may sound like something Poseidon would snack on, and not a killer algae. Yet Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea poses a serious threat to marine life. Spread by the bilge water of boats, this fast-growing alga is quick to take root, squeezing out native species. But there is one spot in the Mediterranean where cylindracea hasn’t yet taken over, and biologists like Juan Manuel Ruiz Fernández are trying to discover why.

 

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Duration: 5:27
Published: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:13:28 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/93/28658093.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/sea-grapes-google-earth-tour en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658091 da87b218903052ff87ee6b4ec97429c2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Sanibel Shells

Ari Daniel Shapiro joins the serious beachcombers along the high-tide line of Sanibel Island, Florida. These “shellers” come in search of beautiful sea shells, sometimes no bigger than a grain of rice, that are the remains of marine snails, bivalves, and other mollusks. Along the way, Ari learns why Sanibel’s shores are so rich in molluscan treasure, and how shelling has captured the imaginations of scientists and enthusiasts alike.

 

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Duration: 5:38
Published: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:08:56 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/91/28658091.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/sanibel-shells en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658089 21004d14d79746939e84aba34d2b39a9 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Starlings

This week, we hear a story in two acts about a very familiar bird—the common starling. It's a non-native species that is omnivorous, gregarious, adaptable, and highly successful in its adopted land. It turns out we humans have inadvertently put out the welcome mat for this alien species. Act One tells the story about this winged invader with an $800 million appetite for fruit crops. As for Act Two, we’ll let independent producer Josh Kurz and the theater troupe Higher Mammals explain.

 

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Duration: 6:06
Published: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:06:37 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/89/28658089.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/starlings en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658088 62ab7b83698692c2306db88b69d31d99 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Mydas Flies

Cresting a red sand dune, you come upon an unexpected sight in the desert: a shimmering expanse of fresh water. This oasis is no mirage, but a lake accidentally created by waste water from a desalination plant serving the growing city of Al Ain. The lake has brought change to the creatures, like the mydas fly, that are adapted to life in this stark and beautiful landscape. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports this cautionary tale from the United Arab Emirates.

 

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Duration: 5:25
Published: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:05:39 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/88/28658088.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/mydas-flies en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658087 e589586aaf8a8686109b94ca7cd813e9 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Arctic Tern

The arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) makes an incredible migration each year. These small birds travel distances of more than 50,000 miles, from pole to pole, crossing through temperate and tropical regions along the way. Carsten Egevang used geo-locator tags to track some of these terns, and he shares their story with us in this tour. 

 

Photo Credit: Blake Matheson, Flickr: EOL Images

 

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Duration: 5:38
Published: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:29:31 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/87/28658087.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/arctic-tern en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658086 067617ac34d998c2c2c8f0291193477c http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Corpse Flowers

Let’s face it—when you think of charismatic megaflora, chances are you have in mind something majestic, like a towering Sequoia, or something ancient, like a Joshua tree. But a plant with a four-foot stalk that smells like a cross between rotting stinky cheese and animal feces? This week’s podcast takes us to a sacred island off the coast of Madagascar, where an intrepid botanist braved fever and worse to bring a specimen of this unlikely botanical superstar back alive. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports.

 

Image Credit: Amorphophallus Sp., Greg Wahlert

 

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Duration: 5:29
Published: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:00:44 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/86/28658086.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/corpse-flowers en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658085 28085c25c089c618f2fae2101902dab2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Marabou Stork

The marabou stork of southern Africa isn’t much to look at—it’s large, ungainly, and bald like a vulture, with a nasty appetite for carrion. This bird is increasingly making a home in urban areas like the Ugandan capital of Kampala, where human city dwellers don’t much like the habits of these winged neighbors. But graduate student Lillian Twanza has been studying the storks, with growing respect. She tells Ari Daniel Shapiro the ways that people have unknowingly put out the welcome mat for these scavengers.

 

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Duration: 5:30
Published: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:50:37 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/85/28658085.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/marabou-stork en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658083 534dd99b5a0ecac821590d25673e795e http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Tulips

When you think of the tools of the modern geneticist, the lowly razor blade probably don’t come to mind. But this low-tech tool is essential to the work of Dutch geneticist and passionate gardener Ben Zonneveld, who is using it to tease apart the genetic secrets of the flower whose spectacular genetic variation caused “tulip mania” in the 1600s and has made it a star in the genetics lab in the twenty-first century. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Leiden, the Netherlands.

 

Photo Credit: Ari Daniel Shapiro

 

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Duration: 5:01
Published: Tue, 15 May 2012 16:59:54 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/83/28658083.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/tulips en 2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658082 604b9009ebf6873cd0268f15b5117b5e http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Loggerhead and Green Sea Turtles

Cyprus is split in half, with a Turkish sector in the north and a Greek sector in the south. The unofficial division makes scientific collaboration in this Mediterranean island nation all but impossible; it also complicates management of the island's endangered sea turtles.

 

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Duration: 6:01
Published: Wed, 30 May 2012 14:14:16 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/82/28658082.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/loggerhead-and-green-sea-turtles en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658081 e65e80cba94a499f324e1a2b82052d4a http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Anoles

EOL fellow Rosario Castañeda takes us to the back rooms of Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, searching through dozens of jars of pickled anole lizards to see the traces of evolution in action. These faded specimens don’t much resemble these vivid animals in life, as they skitter along branches and tree trunks in their native tropics. But to the trained eye, they're revealing secrets. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports.

 

Photo Credit: Green Anole. John Sullivan. CC BY-NC-SA

 

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Duration: 5:31
Published: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:39:54 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/81/28658081.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/anoles en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658080 ca5e9f71dcfeb763dffac1a8a69f062c http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Sea Butterflies

In the ocean, a drama is playing out between two marine mollusks: sea butterflies--tiny swimming snails the size of a grain of sand (also known as Pteropods)—and the larger sea angel that preys on them. But it’s another drama, one on a global scale, that concerns marine biologist Gareth Lawson and sculptor Cornelia Kavanagh: the changing chemistry of our warming oceans. The scientist and artist are collaborating to bring that story to a wider audience in the hope of rewriting the ending. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and New York City.

 

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Duration: 5:30
Published: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:59:05 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/80/28658080.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/sea-butterflies en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658079 9d045067920117e905086f265c50ee63 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Four-Leaf Clover

Scientist-in-training Summer Praetorius has an unusual skill—she is really, really good at spotting four-leaf clovers (Trifolium repens L.). A single gene causes the normally three-leafed clover to produce a fourth, supposedly lucky, leaf. As it turns out, good science depends on both close observation—a skill Praetorius uses to spot tiny shelled animals called foraminifera—and a little bit of luck. Ari Daniel Shapiro explains.

 

Photo Credit:KEBman

 

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Duration: 4:53
Published: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:40:45 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/79/28658079.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/four-leaf-clover-0 en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658078 0aa988d2a0aed8eecbc281aee6210878 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Killer Whale

Imagine yourself immersed in a chilly, blue, three-dimensional world, one where vision isn’t much use but sound travels far. That’s the leap of the imagination demanded of scientists like Volker Deecke who study killer whales. Deecke and his colleagues must sort myth from science to learn the secrets of these consummate predators. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from the Shetland Islands.

 

Photo Credit: Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758). Public Domain.

 

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Duration: 5:30
Published: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:31:01 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/78/28658078.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/killer-whale en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658077 7711638a65181d37f8b330194d158fdc http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Head Lice

This week’s podcast is guaranteed to make your scalp crawl—but don’t worry, it’s most likely all in your head, and not on it. We’ll visit entomologist Richard Pollack to learn about an insect that’s the bane of parents and school principals everywhere—or is it? Ari Daniel Shapiro explains.

 

Photo Credit: Gilles San Martin, CC BY-SA

 

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Duration: 5:04
Published: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:52:49 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/77/28658077.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/head-lice en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658076 2c36ff8f46b5a9897177ebbedf4c10e8 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg The Raptors of Beijing

In a Beijing green space larger than New York’s Central Park, biologist Bao Weidong is scanning the trees, looking for a shy bird that’s increasingly scarce: the long-eared owl. There used to be dozens of them across the city, but they’re vanishing. On the other side of the city, a wildlife rescue center is working to save other raptors that have run afoul of the city’s many perils. Can the raptors of Beijing stage a comeback, in the face of runaway development? Will the people of Beijing make room for raptors?

 

Image Credit: Asio otus, Piet Reens. CC BY-SA

 

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Duration: 5:28
Published: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:35:39 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/76/28658076.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/raptors-beijing en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658075 b91b1690360706f6961665f7158cc6f9 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Foothill Yellow-legged Frog

How is a tadpole like a short-sleeved white tee shirt? The answer lies in the Alameda Creek outside San Francisco, California, USA. Ari Daniel Shapiro wades into the issue of dams and biodiversity with two biologists sampling the DNA of this threatened frog in order to save it.

 

Photo Credit: Alessandro Catenazzi, CC BY-NC-SA

 

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Duration: 5:12
Published: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:24:17 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/75/28658075.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/foothill-yellow-legged-frog-0 en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658074 376d73d4b76eb2c500ea74e09ace4de4 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Lions

Does the mane really make the lion? Certainly, luxurious locks are the feature that sets Panthera leo apart from the other large cats. But surprisingly, not all male lions have manes. And manes used to cover more of the lion than just the head. Ari Daniel Shapiro speaks with archivist Connie Rinaldo of Harvard University and curator of mammals Bruce Patterson of Chicago’s Field Museum to learn about the diversity of lions in the distant past and the challenges they face in the present.

 

Image Credit: H. Vannoy Davis, CalPhotos, California Academy of Sciences. CC BY-NC-SA

 

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Duration: 5:32
Published: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:36:15 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/74/28658074.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/lions en 5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658071 452c937cf6c327df15fddff8ad6f927b http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Ravens

We humans learn some of our earliest life lessons from our brothers and sisters, watching what toys our siblings play with and what treats they stash away for later. In this Halloween season podcast, Ari Daniel Shapiro journeys to Austria to learn how such social learning happens in a spooky bird—the raven.

 

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain

 

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Duration: 5:26
Published: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 14:52:05 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/71/28658071.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/ravens en 4.4 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658070 dcc793888e8f388b72250f19e1faa05c http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Hedgehogs, Swifts, Glow-worms

What can species as different as a hedgehog, a swift, and a glow-worm possibly have in common? To find out, we journey to southwest England. We’ll join two naturalists on a walk through the heart of Exeter, a city known more for its football club and cathedral than for its wildlife. You may be surprised at what we find.

 

Image Credit: Piotr Halas, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA

 

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Duration: 5:26
Published: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:15:45 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/70/28658070.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/hedgehogs-swifts-glow-worms en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658069 db09f97f77fca5f19aefefe64b2c9048 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Hungarian meadow viper

There’s a snake in the grass—but the viper in this Hungarian meadow is more threatened than a threat, at least to people. As new ways of farming replace the old, these vipers have been pushed to the brink of extinction. Can conservationists change the hearts and minds of local farmers in time to preserve this critically endangered species? Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Kiskunság National Park.

 

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Duration: 5:27
Published: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:30:26 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/69/28658069.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/hungarian-meadow-viper en 5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658068 ba308fb5395a89971ab2f6bbc4720118 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Lebanon Cedar

Mentioned in the Bible and in the 8000-year-old epic Gilgamesh, Lebanon’s iconic cedars have been reduced to a fraction of their former range by centuries of logging. Ari Daniel Shapiro walks the Shouf Cedar Reserve to learn how scientists are working to save the last remaining trees from a more insidious threat—climate change. The answer may surprise you. 

 

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Duration: 5:30
Published: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:11:45 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/68/28658068.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/lebanon-cedar en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658065 1e3e0dfd9e63811cba200e17e2db9ad5 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Bacteria

In this episode, we raise the blinds on an invisible world that’s all around us: the realm of bacteria. Don’t reach for the antibacterial gel just yet. Roberto Kolter of Harvard explains the relationship between one bacterium, Bacillus subtilis, and the majestic trees outside his office windows at Harvard Medical School. There’s a lot going on, down among the roots.

 

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Duration: 5:29
Published: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:56:39 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/65/28658065.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/bacteria en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658064 cb5f9245ce4de9a82b8940ddc1a21da0 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Chamois

Growing up in a village in the foothills of the French Alps, Francis Roucher used to hunt the chamois. But on the day one of his shots went astray, Roucher was transformed from hunter to game manager, working to reverse the chamois’ decline.

 

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Image Credit: Marcin Białek, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA

 

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Duration: 6:20
Published: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:03:08 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/64/28658064.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/chamois en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658063 107c364f0841ffa30e156cba31e0bd82 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Red Swamp Crawfish

For centuries, human commerce has played a role in distributing plant and animal species around the globe. But not every species can claim the title of circumnavigator. In this week’s episode, Ari Daniel Shapiro journeys to the Gulf Coast of the U.S. to meet a tiny Magellan, the star of an unlikely story that has come full circle.

 

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Duration: 5:29
Published: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:20:00 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/63/28658063.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/red-swamp-crawfish en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658061 9887736624e63018a12c5c8d6c99497b http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Seagrass

The species that was Àlex Lorente’s passion was an extraordinarily long-lived seagrass, once common along the coast of his native Spain. Tragically, Lorente himself was not to enjoy a long life: he died in 2012 at the age of 37. But his colleagues in marine conservation are working to make sure the links Lorente forged between scientists and fishermen survive, for the good of the Mediterranean that he cherished. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports.

 

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Duration: 5:27
Published: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:53:48 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/61/28658061.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/seagrass en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658060 417329b11f86ee5f88d106916eed966a http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Beetles and Moths

How much trouble can an unassuming black beetle no bigger than your fingernail be? Plenty, as we learn in this episode of One Species at a Time. Tiny stowaways like the European Gazelle beetle are arriving on container ships and wreaking havoc with native ecosystems. Long-standing pests like the gypsy moth have been joined by new exotic species that are crowding out North American fauna. Ari Daniel Shapiro journeys to the forests of Oregon to meet the beetles.

 

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Duration: 5:01
Published: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:39:40 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/60/28658060.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/beetles-and-moths en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658059 1e0ffe651e08676871608d80da6dc2de http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Monarch Butterflies

Every year monarch butterflies begin a journey north from their overwintering grounds in Mexican forests. The epic migration spans generations and the better part of a continent. In this first of two episodes, we’ll meet a pair of women united by their fascination with this iconic insect. Mexican geographer Isabel Ramírez and American biologist Karen Oberhauser are working to save monarch habitat on both ends of this remarkable insect’s 2,500 mile journey. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports.

 

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Duration: 5:30
Published: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:25:56 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/59/28658059.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/monarch-butterflies en 4 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658058 1e0ffe651e08676871608d80da6dc2de http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Monarch Butterflies II

As they wing their way across North America, millions of migrating monarch butterflies form a living river of orange. In this episode, the second of two podcasts on monarchs, we’ll meet citizens young and old who are dipping a toe in that river in the name of science and of beauty.

 

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Image Credit: Victoria Reeder, iNaturalist.org. CC BY-NC-SA

 

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Duration: 5:29
Published: Tue, 14 May 2013 17:51:37 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/58/28658058.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/monarch-butterflies-ii en 4 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658057 208481b157a4cd363a5accf01285cb1d http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Scottish Wildcat

Scottish Wildcats or Felis sylvestris grampia have been around since the last ice age. A symbol of strength and independence, the cats used to roam the whole of Great Britain, but researchers believe there are now fewer than 400 left in the rugged highlands. We journey to Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland to learn about the threats that have this secretive species on the run and what the Cairngorms Wildcat Project is doing to help protect them. 

 

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Duration: 5:25
Published: Wed, 29 May 2013 17:07:27 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/57/28658057.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/scottish-wildcat en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658056 b503a63799770010527a5b4ad67df285 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Ediacaran Fauna Fossils

In this episode, journey back in time to learn about Ediacaran Fauna, a diverse group of organisms that lived in the world's oceans about 580 million years ago. We’ll meet Dickinsonia rex, a sort of living bathmat without eyes or a mouth, and other strange denizens of the primordial slimebed. Paleontologists Mary Droser and Jim Gehling explain how they’re working to reconstruct this ancient ecosystem by studying fossils and shed light on the enduring evolutionary puzzle of how and why the first complex life forms arose.

 

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Duration: 5:41
Published: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:30:16 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/56/28658056.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/ediacaran-fauna-fossils en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658055 eb0beb933c326f7c77e0cb46d8134710 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Island Fox

In this episode, reporter Molly Samuel journeys to Santa Cruz Island, off the coast of California, to look into the mystery of the island’s tiny foxes, descendants of gray foxes who rafted over from the mainland more than ten thousand years ago and branched off to form a new, smaller species. Despite weighing a mere three pounds, these diminutive grey foxes thrived and for millennia they reigned as the island’s top predator. But twenty years ago, their numbers began to plummet, from three thousand in the early 1990s to fewer than one hundred by 2000.

 

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Duration: 5:32
Published: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:49:49 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/55/28658055.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/island-fox en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658054 6bd26d1e3afe3bdcb449caa949bd02b4 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Saltwater crocodiles

The city of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory lies in the heart of crocodile country. In the 1950s, saltwater crocodiles were shot, skinned, and turned into shoes and handbags. After hunting was banned in the 1970s, crocodile numbers climbed. Now there’s a croc for every man, woman, and child in Darwin. Can the human citizens learn to live alongside their toothy neighbors?

 

Image Credit: Gerald and Buff Corsi. CalPhotos. CC BY-NC-SA

 

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Duration: 5:32
Published: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:40:17 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/54/28658054.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/saltwater-crocodiles en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658053 11b8ba632bf622f4a90d15b0d6715e52 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Moths

Like moths to a flame, some people are irresistibly drawn to the woods at night. Carrying bed sheets and armed with special lights and lures, they come seeking moths. In July 2012, in 49 states and numerous countries across the world, scientists and ordinary folk alike fanned out to get a closer look at these insects during the first ever National Moth Week - now an annual event across the world.

 

National Moth Week 2013 is July 20-28. Learn more at: http://nationalmothweek.org/

 

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Duration: 5:29
Published: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:29:33 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/53/28658053.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/moths en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658052 c4bc88b5cad55a4453bac487117bfcf8 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Bittersweet nightshade

Some species are born invaders, like bittersweet nightshade, a non-native vine with purple flowers and red berries. So what makes it such a successful space invader while other foreign plants never make it? It turns out the answer may be right underfoot. Ecologists Jean Burns and Angela Brandt have devised clever experiments to get to the root of the matter. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Cleveland, Ohio.

 

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Duration: 5:30
Published: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:55:19 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/52/28658052.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/bittersweet-nightshade en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658051 713f83d763043834c30767e3d0f4d51a http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Iron-oxidizing bacteria

If you were driving along a highway in Maine - located on the east coast of the United States - past pine trees and summer cottages, you might not give a ditch of rust-colored water a second thought, unless you had the bad luck to drive into it. In this week’s podcast, Ari Daniel meets some scientists who are wading into the rusty water and finding a whole ecosystem of unusual life forms.

 

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Duration: 5:30
Published: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:44:47 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/51/28658051.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/iron-oxidizing-bacteria en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658050 ad9b4c62b5b46120a4e89dfab9028b9f http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg New Species in the Old World

You don’t always have to venture into the heart of a rain forest to discover a new species. Sometimes all you have to do is look more closely, right where you are. In Europe, experts and enthusiasts alike are looking high and low, from alpine meadows to underground caves, in search of Old World species new to science. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from France.

 

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Duration: 5:20
Published: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:45:44 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/50/28658050.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/new-species-old-world en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658048 4259c64d933b0ba6a6783fe957e359be http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Mexican long-nosed bats

The batman of Mexico has his own bat-cave. He just shares it with 4,000 Mexican long-nosed bats. In this episode, join researcher Rodrigo Medellin as he descends into the Devil’s Cave just north of Mexico City. It’s a journey that started decades ago when Medellin was on a game show as a boy. He lost the game show, but won a prize far more valuable—for himself, his students, and Mexico’s bats. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports from Tepoztlán.

 

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Duration: 5:30
Published: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:16:14 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/48/28658048.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/mexican-long-nosed-bats en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658045 28c6d92cb981fe9fb54dd57b381f84ea http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Dolphins

You have probably seen cans of tuna in your local supermarket marked “dolphin safe.” That label means the tuna was fished in a way that spares most dolphins from being killed in the tuna fleet’s giant nets. In this podcast, biologist and guest reporter Matt Leslie brings us a story about tuna, the intertwined fate of fisheries and dolphins, and the work of scientists. It’s a story that lies behind the label of every can of tuna. It spans two generations of scientists and a revolution in scientific methods. Matt reports from a dolphin morgue in La Jolla, California, USA.

 

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Duration: 6:00
Published: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:12:47 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/45/28658045.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/dolphins en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18 28658044 6b575014623dfa8c5f0ca595fdcce241 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound audio/mpeg Delal a kar

Palau, an island nation of 20,000 people in the western Pacific, is on a collision course with modernization. As a Western way of life takes hold in this archipelago, a modern ailment is taking hold with it. Christopher Kitalong has a foot in both worlds. He grew up in Palau and is getting a degree in ethnobotany in the U.S. He thinks a nondescript native tree may hold the answer to Palau’s epidemic, and Kitalong is determined to ask the right questions.

 

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Duration: 5:31
Published: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:53:19 +0000 https://editors.eol.org/other_files/EOL_media/44/28658044.mp3 http://podcast.eol.org/podcast/delal-kar en 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Encyclopedia of Life 156cba0b88c0de2f75a6814c0ecfe0e0; ccae14c047723ad685bc238143d9a18d; 735a06ef842254b9b4e7a12fcda98e18