Weird Species #5: Deep sea brains

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Weird Species

Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

9 episodes

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Krister Smith is Head of Division Messel Research and Mammalogy. In this episode of “Weird Species“, he talks about the UNESCO World Heritage Site just south of Frankfurt and its many well-preserved fossils. His favorite species lives quite far away, though: The Gila monster, a venomous lizard native to the Southwestern US and the Mexican State of Sonora. They are remarkably relaxed creatures, only active for 20 hours per month – but with a bite that has been described as excruciatingly painful.

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Weird Species #5: Deep sea brains – Xenophyophores

Weird Species

37 minutes 9 seconds

11 months ago

Weird Species #5: Deep sea brains – Xenophyophores

They kind of look like brains and live on the floor of our oceans in depths up to 10,000 meters: xenophyophores. Here to talk about them in this episode of "Weird Species" is world-renowned deep sea biologist Dr. Lisa Levin, this year's recipient of the Senckenberg Prize for Nature Research. She not only shares facinating insights about xenophyophores, but also about her long and distinguished career that took her all over the globe.

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