animal adaptations

Explore "animal adaptations" with insightful episodes like "Functional Morphology (ANATOMY) Encore with Joy Reidenberg", "Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?", "The Three-Pupiled Eye, Part 2", "Behold! The Anus: An Evolutionary Marvel" and "Why Do Flying Snakes Wiggle In The Air?" from podcasts like ""Ologies with Alie Ward", "This Podcast Will Kill You", "Stuff To Blow Your Mind", "Short Wave" and "Short Wave"" and more!

Episodes (6)

Functional Morphology (ANATOMY) Encore with Joy Reidenberg

Ever poked at roadkill? Watched videos of whales exploding? Drooled over a curio cabinet full of claws & bones? Peered into a jar with a pickled toad? Then this one is for you. Whether you’ve heard it before or are new to this classic ep, you’re sure to be delighted by this Ologist’s storytelling. Arguably the world's most famous comparative anatomist (and pretty-much-also functional morphologist) Dr. Joy Reidenberg pulls up a chair at Mt. Sinai Hospital to talk about her fascinating backstory, exploding whales, taxidermied chipmunks, dead toadfish, animal's weird anatomy and its function and how it might help human health. She is absolutely amazing and you will become obsessed with her work.

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en-usMarch 05, 2024

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Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?

In our episode on the bends, you joined us as we explored how low we can go. Now we’re back with a similar invitation: come along to learn how high we can fly (and what happens to our bodies when we get up there). In this very special episode, we examine the short-term effects and potentially deadly consequences of life at great heights and ask how we came to understand the relationship between altitude, oxygen, and health. This journey begins earlier than you may have guessed, back to a time before oxygen was discovered, and winds through unexpected avenues, including misadventures in hot air balloons and early experiments demonstrating the vitality of air, as we trace how the pieces of high altitude physiology were put together. A big part of what makes this episode so very special is our guest, Dr. Jonathan Velotta, Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Denver, who joins us to chat about some of the incredible ways that humans and other animals have adapted to live at high altitude. Tune in for a bird’s-eye view of what it’s like to have a high life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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enMarch 21, 2023

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The Three-Pupiled Eye, Part 2

From heroes to sages to destructive monsters, various figures in Irish mythology are described as possessing eyes of seven or three pupils (or irises). We also see discussion of such marvelous eyes in Chinese traditions and in the writings of Pliny and Ovid. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss the enigma of the triple eye.

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enMarch 31, 2022

Behold! The Anus: An Evolutionary Marvel

The anus is an evolutionary marvel. But how and when did this organ evolve into what it is today? Today on Short Wave, Maddie gets to the bottom of these questions with The Atlantic's science writer Katherine Wu.

For more of Katherine's reporting, check out 'The Body's Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel' from The Atlantic.

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en-usJune 21, 2021

Why Do Flying Snakes Wiggle In The Air?

Some snakes can fly, and we don't mean on a plane. Certain snakes that live in South and Southeast Asia can leap off branches, undulating through the air, onto another tree. But why do they wiggle? NPR science correspondent Nell Greenfieldboyce shares one researcher's quest to find out.

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en-usJuly 14, 2020

Pineal Optics: My Third Eye

Prepare to open that third eye, listeners, because Robert and Julie are taking you on a journey from philosophical ponderings about human spirituality to scientific explorations of the human pineal gland and the extra parietal eye common to other animals in this classic episode.

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animal adaptations

Episodes (6)

Functional Morphology (ANATOMY) Encore with Joy Reidenberg

Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?

The Three-Pupiled Eye, Part 2

Behold! The Anus: An Evolutionary Marvel

Why Do Flying Snakes Wiggle In The Air?

Pineal Optics: My Third Eye