Darwin's Deviations

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Subscribe to out NEW PODCAST HERE On Tracing Owls, we will be covering cryptids, aliens, paranormal phenomena, high strangeness, anomalies, obscurities, natural curiosities and general weirdness, as we attempt to catalogue the overlooked, spotlight the disregarded, and remind that the cosmic expanse is much greater than our understanding of it! ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to The Crescent Hare, a.k.a. Christina (actually a barn owl in "human" disguise) for creating this amazing podcast artwork! The idea was to have a barn owl cast the shadows of Braxie and Mothman... with its wings! Thus the outline of a mundane little cutey animal is traced onto monstrously eerie silhouettes... which are open to further interpretation

A mysterious cardboard box arrives at the doorstep of an aspiring web sleuth, who soon finds himself entangled in the unexpected absurdity of another dimension. A dimension not only of...sound, it's a podcast, but of (unsound) mind. A journey into an abhorrent wasteland whose boundaries are that of... well... there are no boundaries, pretty bottom of the barrel here... His next stop, the Darwinverse! ====================== This cinematic masterpiece was written, recorded, edited... and scripted, acted, produced... and directed by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Death Investigator No fruit was harmed during the making of this scene (cuz I murdered it beforehand) Check out their podcast, creatively named Autopsy. HERE Check out their website as well at www.autopsypod.com (yes, they are semi-professional) If you can't get enough of their logo and wish to help pay off my bill to this incredible indie podcast, check out their SWAG HERE ...or, If you are, like me, ashamed of exposing your disturbing podcast preferences to the public, then head on over to Patreon and give them some support! Support independent niche creators, because who else is going to provide detailed, objective medical information on the condition of a victim's remains, other than random "true crime" podcasters investigating from the comfort of their own home? ====================== Collaboration scene from Episode 19. Vampire Watermelons, with a Side of Garlic Bread LISTEN TO IT HERE Episode Art was created using Microsoft Paint. You can obtain it for free, by installing a Windows OS on any cheap ass PC. You don't even need to be a graphic designer

Death, Decay, Murder, Blood, Vampires...and other keywords which will make this episode more visible to the edgelords of the internet! Today we appease the Cosmic Joker and bring you a morbidly absurd April Fools experience! Yes, watermelons can be vampires too, and no, we are not pranking you. No siree. It's a real thing, just look at the sources below. I'm not making this stuff up. No really...it is a genuine traditional belief...as is killing the elderly with bread! No wait! I can explain! Damn, just listen to the episode... unless you're vegan! Or an old person. Or Serbian. Or a representative of the vampire pumpkin majority! Or... sane, in any sort of way :P ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Autopsy. Podcast for falling victim to our April Fools pranks!..and relieving us of the dreadful curse! Check out their podcast, creatively named Autopsy. HERE Check out their website as well at www.autopsypod.com (yes, they are semi-professional) Also, if you can't get enough of their logo and wish to help pay off my bill to this incredible indie podcast, check out their SWAG HERE ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia: Vampire pumpkins and watermelons Talk Page for above article Wikipedia: Petar Blagojević Wikipedia: Lapot Wikipedia: Sin-eater The vampire ground fruit of the Balkans Will a watermelon left out at night turn into a vampire? Vampire tourism: Kisiljevo in Serbia is where vampire Petar Blagojevich ‘lived' Reddit: Is the Serbian tradition of “Lapot” myth or reality? Sinful suppers: Sin-eating in England and Wales The Worst Freelance Gig in History Was Being the Village Sin Eater Bojan Jovanović (1997), Ritual of Killing Elders as a Scientific Myth Wilson, Damon (2004). The World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries. New York: Barnes and Noble Books

We have finally reached 1,500 plays!!! As a special treat for achievingly achieving this achievement, we have decided to gracefully make you cringe by doing our very first non-scripted, non-acted episode! I talk about why I have been a lazy bum the past month, expand upon my concepts and theories of the Cosmic Joker and Hierarchies of Nature and Reality... and talk some more nonsense about high strangeness, abstract realities, the Flatwoods Monster (Braxie), mythology and my own awkwardness! ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to The Crescent Hare, a.k.a. Christina (actually a barn owl in "human" disguise) for inspiring this whole conversation, and for letting us feature her magnificent Braxie artwork!!! This awesome art piece may be purchased HERE Show your support by following her on Instagram @thecrescenthare If you wish to proudly display your weirdness and decorate your physical vessel with the very sexy Braxie, or the very... "handsome" face of Indrid Cold, or even different variations of horny bunnies, all of Christina's art can be found at www.etsy.com/shop/thecrescenthare/ ❤️❤️❤️❤️ ====================== For more on the Hierarchies of Nature and Reality, check our Episode 12. Volvox: Corporate Unification of Systematic Multicellularity For more on the Cosmic Joker, otherworldly entities and the psycho-social aspects of the paranormal, check our Episode 18. Extradimensional Psychological Entities For more info on the book I mentioned, titled "Quest for the Unknown: Bizarre Phenomena" check it out on Amazon ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com ====================== FURTHER READING: Cosmic Joker Trickster Psychosocial hypothesis HighStrangeness (Subreddit) Charles Fort Forteana Anomalous Weather Entombed animal Flatwoods monster Mothman Fresno Nightcrawler Indrid Cold Gray Barker Flatwoods Monster Solved!

What happens when 2 podcasting loudmouths stumble upon each other in hyperspace? Hilarity (and absurdity) ensues! The battle between the ancient and the millennial! The cynical wisdom vs the batshit insanity! The unsuspecting friendly collaborator vs the jackass host who did not disclose his plans to screw him over! This is.... Aaron vs Darwin! (Spoiler: I win!) (My show = my rules) (OK there's no winner, but I'm getting all the plays for both episodes so...nya nyaaa) ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Aaron for allowing me to mooch off his scenes once more!... and for being a great collaborator I guess, yeah, OK. Check out his podcast "I HAD to Say It" HERE Check out his website as well at ihadtosayitpodcast.com ====================== CLICK HERE to acquire legal ownership of a portion of my own soul :) ====================== CLICK HERE if you keep ignoring my links ====================== CLICK HERE for pics ;) You know what I mean ====================== Just please CLICK HERE already >:( (and Support so he can start using dramatic music as well) ====================== Collaboration scenes from Episode 18. Extradimensional Psychological Entities LISTEN TO IT HERE

The Outer Space, Hyperspace and Inner Space collide!!!...as we attempt to redefine reality, searching for the aliens of our own psyche! The cosmos is as vast as the variety of its interpretations! We are all material constituents of the universal clockwork, yet psychological instigators of infinite abstract realities! Want more pseudo-philosophical nonsense? Hit the Play button! We get very meta and introspective, so much that we find ourselves lost in our own mind... multiple times! Literally! Aliens, UFOs, dreams, hallucinations, hypnosis, psychedelics, even extra-dimensional lifeforms... we talk about it all, yet say nothing! What does any of this even mean? I don't know! I'm pulling stuff out of my ass! It is too large, and the alien probes needed some company :) ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Aaron for helping bring our absurd nonsense to fruition, and playing the coolest character thus far! Check out his podcast "I HAD to Say It" HERE Check out his website as well at ihadtosayitpodcast.com ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit: Pavel Souviron, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Check out this amazing website: AnomalyInfo.com AnomalyInfo: 1977, January 26: Slabs and Blocks Wikipedia: Narrative of the abduction phenomenon Wikipedia: John E. Mack Wikipedia: N,N-Dimethyltryptamine Wikipedia: Past life regression Wikipedia: Psychosocial hypothesis Wiktionary: Cosmic Joker ObscUrban Legend Wikia: Prospect Monoliths Psychology Wiki: Dimethyltryptamine Non-Alien Creatures Wiki: Machine Elf People Seeing Strange Entities When Taking DMT Could Be The Source Of "Alien Abductions" 10 Bizarre Encounters With The Craziest Aliens Ever Huyghe, Patrick (1996). The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials. New York City: Avon Books. pp. 20–21 & 60–61. ISBN 978-0380781287 "Kentucky Close Encounter" by Carla L. Rueckert, article in the Flying Saucer Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, October 1977. Pgs. 15-16, 19.

Join us as we twist and over-exaggerate the very true falsehood of a completely fabricated forgery fish which was totally considered a genuinely authentic species…for over 5 decades! What would you do if you were served an atrocious fish of unknown origin? You'd eat it! And you'd pay for it as well! Because you do this all the time without your knowledge! But hey, at least you move on with your life, instead of making a mockery of the scientific world…unlike some people :) ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com YVA voiced with FreeTTS Image Credit: Karl Theodor Staiger (d. 1888), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia: Ompax spatuloides Wikipedia: Gayndah The Fishiest Fish A Fishy Tale A Book of Creatures: Ompax Gayndah bear mystery Survey Finds That Fish Are Often Not What Label Says What Is Imitation Crab and Should You Eat It? Castelnau, F. (1879). "On a new ganoïd fish from Queensland". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 3: 164–165. Whitley, Gilbert P. (1933): Ompax spatuloides Castelnau, a mythical Australian fish. Am. Nat. 67(713): 563–567. Helfman, G.; Collette, B.B.; Facey, D.E.; Bowen, B.W. (2009). The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology. John Wiley & Sons. p. 294. ISBN 9781444311907. Bolt, Roelf, and Andy Brown. 2014. The encyclopaedia of liars and deceivers. Reaktion Books. p. 77.

Help support a new, amazing, awesome indie podcaster! Murder Bird covers true crime cases involving women and girls, BUT...in a very genuine, respectful and objective way! The topic selections are unique, unconventional, lesser-known cases often unexplored by media and podcasters, and usually not what they seem at first :) If that wasn't enough to get you hooked, hey... the host Sophie does amazing narration... in the sweetest, most pleasant, Britishy (but VERY comprehensible!!!) voice I've heard in quite a while :) :) :) Listen to Murder Bird on any podcasting platform of your choice, such as: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0X7eFIjKnHcU9s99wiB4su Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/murder-bird/id1547857027 ...or any of those others, if you're one of those weirdo people! Follow them on Instagram @murderbirdpod ...or on Twitter...um...also @murderbirdpod If you feel intimidated by the Britishness of the host, and want to be all formal, then send them an e-mail to murderbirdpod@gmail.com And if you like my show, you will give this podcast a 5-star review on iTunes, because I love it, and so do you! Squishy commands it! :) ❤️❤️❤️

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MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING!!! In this episode we talk about otters, yes, we're going there, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel! So naturally, as it is with otters, expect to be exposed to depraved topics which may include kidnapping, child neglect, male aggression, torture, sadism, sexual assault, serial murder, cannibalism, necrophilia, infanticide, and many forms of inter-species violence…and perversion! But that's not the worst…oh noooo…we are also going to engage in the most controversial and degenerate act known to man: Criticizing endangered species! Oh my! Prepare the stake, we can already smell the burn! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com YVA voiced with FreeTTS Image Credit: Mathias Appel, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia: Enhydriodon dikikae Wikipedia: Giant otter Wikipedia: Sea otter Adorable Terror: Wolf-Size Otter Hunted in Ancient China The Bear Otter Watch a family of otters ambush an unsuspecting crocodile more than twice their size Smithsonian Magazine: Otterly Fascinating The 6 Deadliest Animals Too Adorable to Run Away From The Other Side of Otters How a River Otter Can Bag an Alligator for Lunch Video Shows Otters Drown And Kill A Monkey At A Zoo The case against otters: necrophiliac, serial-killing fur monsters of the sea Fifty shades of fur? Exposing the dark side of a sea otter's sex life 'He was humping it. It was so bizarre': Exposing the ‘aberrant' nature of a sea otter's sex life Do Sea Otters Rape Baby Seals? Carvalho, Lucélia. (2001). Cannibalism among Giant Otters (Pteronura brasiliensis). Mammalia. 25. 225-227. Simpson, V.R. & Coxon, K.E.. (2000). Intraspecific aggression, cannibalism and suspected infanticide in Otters. British Wildlife. 11. 423-426.

As a giant THANK YOU to our fans for helping us reach over 900 plays......we're taking a break! Yaaaaay. Bye :) Check out Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere (Official Video), which inspired the last bit! ====================== Intro/Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Follow, Like, Support Francisco via his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Francisco-S%C3%A1nchez-205622936184228 ....or his Jamendo page: https://www.jamendo.com/artist/370168/francisco-sanchez Check out more of Francisco's music BELOW!!! Mystery and imagination stories - https://www.jamendo.com/album/195217/mystery-and-imagination-stories Mystery and terror sequences (on FREE SOUND LAB) - https://www.jamendo.com/album/195595/mystery-and-terror-sequences Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Kudos to all creators who make amazing, high quality and free content!

In a world of everlasting darkness, where predators lurk in every dark corner…though all of the surroundings are engulfed in eternal shade…there must rise a savior, an eternal illuminator, a bearer of enlightenment, the gateway to the transcendental gleam…because, the only opposition to the abyssal twilight, is the luminosity within. The Haven of the Abyssal Cnidaria want YOU! Distinguish the light from within the darkness of your being! May Eternally Light Thy Flashy! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com YVA voiced with FreeTTS Image Credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas, Public domain (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia: Crossota millsae Wikipedia: Vampyrocrossota Wikipedia: Bioluminescence Bizarre jellyfish is spotted in the depths of the Mariana Trench: Experts believe the orb-like creature may be an entirely new species Deep-Sea Researchers Spot a Mysterious Jellyfish Near The Mariana Trench This Deep-Sea Jellyfish Is Beyond Belief Mysterious 'Cosmic' Jellyfish Spotted in Remote Ocean Depths This Deep Sea Jellyfish Looks Like It Came From Outer Space Scientists call this a 'psychedelic Medusa' Ocean Explorer: Dive 8: Psychedelic Medusa How this jellyfish earned the nickname 'Psychedelic Medusa' YouTube: Jellyfish: 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas YouTube: NOAA live April 24 Stunningly beautiful jellyfish! Thuesen, Erik. (2003). Crossota millsae (Cnidaria: Trachymedusae: Rhopalonematidae), a new species of viviparous hydromedusa from the deep sea off California and Hawaii. Magnolia Press Zootaxa. 309. 1-12. 10.11646/zootaxa.309.1.1.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode is PACKED with colorful vocabulary! Most would define these as sexually explicit words, which does not make sense, because these words are referring to organs used for nursing (which are not used for sex!). However, we do use sexually explicit language when referring to the male body, because men have it coming! Oops In today's episode... Me, Myself and YVA toss around some wacky theories! Were the Ediacaran seas packed with floating boobs? Are these boobs remnants of our long-lost dolphin overlords? Have geologists been covering up the existence of prehistoric boobies for decades? And the most wacky, insane theory or all...should we stop sexualizing non-sexual body parts and allow a whole gender to freely inhabit the physical vessels they are born with? Oh, how shocking! They've been trying to cover 'em up for centuries. We're exposing them! :) ====================== The Haven of the Abyssal Cnidaria want YOU! Join us. Spread the word. May eternal be thy Flashy! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com YVA voiced with FreeTTS Image Credit: Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: A LOT of Wikipedia articles I cannot possibly list Urban Thesaurus - Slang words for Breasts The science of why human breasts are so big Evolution of Life - The Ediacaran: Cyclomedusa Wei-guo, Sun. “Precambrian medusoids: The Cyclomedusa plexus and Cyclomedusa-like pseudofossils.” Precambrian Research 31 (1986): 325-360. R. J. F. Jenkins, C. H. Ford & J. G. Gehling (1983) The Ediacara member of the Rawnsley quartzite: The context of the Ediacara assemblage (late precambrian, flinders ranges), Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 30:1-2, 101-119, DOI: 10.1080/00167618308729240 Narbonne, G. (1994). New Ediacaran fossils from the Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 68(3), 411-416. doi:10.1017/S0022336000025816 Crimes, T., A. Insole and B. J. Williams. “A rigid-bodied Ediacaran Biota from Upper Cambrian strata in Co. Wexford, Eire.” Geological Journal 30 (1995): 89-109. McMenamin, Mark. (1986). The Garden of Ediacara. Palaios. 1. 178. 10.2307/3514512. McMenamin, M.A.S. and McMenamin, D.L.S. (1990) The Emergence of Animals; the Cambrian Breakthrough, Columbia University Press McMenamin, M. (1998). The Garden of Ediacara. New York: Columbia University Press.

Sick of my show??? Desire more respectable, professional, informative quality content??? Then why not check out the Autopsy. Podcast!!! EveryBODY has a final tale...let's just hope the show never covers mine in the near future! You can find Autopsy. Podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/autopsy/id1537662266 ...or visit their website: www.autopsypod.com ====================== ...until I meet my demise, let me at least have some control over how my tale is portrayed! Bonus episode!!! I talk about myself a bit, because I am the most freaky, weird, bizarre and unusual oddity of my show! And I'm a narcissistic, self-absorbed idiot! Thank you all for helping us reach over 700 listens :) ====================== Intro/Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Follow, Like, Support Francisco via his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Francisco-S%C3%A1nchez-205622936184228 ....or his Jamendo page: https://www.jamendo.com/artist/370168/francisco-sanchez Check out more of Francisco's music BELOW!!! Mystery and imagination stories - https://www.jamendo.com/album/195217/mystery-and-imagination-stories Mystery and terror sequences (on FREE SOUND LAB) - https://www.jamendo.com/album/195595/mystery-and-terror-sequences Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Kudos to all creators who make amazing, high quality and free content!

Ever bite into a frog and wonder…can it ever bite back…but then realize you are the host of a survival reality show and consume innocent creatures for the shock and amusement of braindead slobs who never leave their home??? Or maybe you're just French. Well…these frogs can bite your ass!!!…but only if you're also a frog…and male…I guess they're picky biters :/ Join us as we waste some more of your time reading this text instead of just playing the podcast…because you just need to read this to the very end…even though it is pretty obvious we are writing nonsense, and deliberately annoying you…because you just cannot stop now when you can see you are almost finished…but only because I am too lazy to write another sentence. BECAUSE! The Haven of the Abyssal Cnidaria want YOU! Join us. Spread the word. May eternal be thy Flashy! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit: Jegelewicz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia: Limnonectes Do Frogs Have Teeth? The Function of Teeth on the Roof of a Frog's Mouth Frogs Evolve Teeth - Again Understanding Arachibutyrophobia Frog ancestors devoured prey with thousands of hooked teeth Bird-Eating Fanged Frog Found in Greater Mekong The secret life of a fanged frog with an enormous head "Vampire Flying Frog" Found; Tadpoles Have Black Fangs Scientists discover fanged frogs that give birth to tadpoles Fabrezi, Marissa & Emerson, S.B.. (2003). Parallelism and convergence in anuran fangs. Journal of Zoology. 260. 41-51. Paluh, Daniel & Stanley, Edward & Blackburn, David. (2020). Evolution of hyperossification expands skull diversity in frogs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117. 202000872. 10.1073/pnas.2000872117. Iskandar, Djoko T & Evans, Ben & Mcguire, Jimmy. (2014). A Novel Reproductive Mode in Frogs: A New Species of Fanged Frog with Internal Fertilization and Birth of Tadpoles. PloS one. 9. e115884. 10.1371/journal.pone.0115884.

We bring you our first (and only!) clean, non-explicit episode ever! NO...it is NOT a Christmas episode! Furcifer voeltzkowi are sneaky little guys that are not afraid to... die young :( Actually, their survival depends on it! Join us as we delve into the life of a lizard species which is not new....but was lost to science....so we rediscovered it.....because we destroy so many species each year we are running out of new ones to discover, so science needs to rely on remakes just like Hollywood! But heeey....this one also loooves to pull a fast one on scientists! We also mix in a small dose of non-offensive, totally clean and respectful jokes...just not towards the lizard....cuz its life is too short to be offended by us! :) ====================== The Haven of the Abyssal Cnidaria want YOU! Join us. Spread the word. May eternal be thy Flashy! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Google Translate voices obtained from....Google Translate...duh! Image Credit: Dr. David Prötzel, Zoologische Staatssammlung München (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia: Voeltzkow's chameleon Wikipedia: Labord's chameleon National Geographic: The Search for Lost Species Global Wildlife Conservation: The Search for Lost Species Global Wildlife Conservation: Voeltzkow's Chameleon Glaw, Frank & Prötzel, David & Eckhardt, Falk & Raharinoro, Njaratiana & Ravelojaona, Rojo & Glaw, Timon & Glaw, Kathrin & Forster, Julia & Vences, Miguel. (2020). Rediscovery, conservation status and genetic relationships of the Malagasy chameleon Furcifer voeltzkowi. Salamandra. 56. 342-354. Sentis, Marina & Chang, Yiyin & Scherz, Mark & Prötzel, David & Glaw, Frank. (2018). Rising from the ashes: Resurrection of the Malagasy chameleons Furcifer monoceras and F. Voeltzkowi (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae), based on micro-CT scans and external morphology. Zootaxa. 4483. 549. 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.3.7. Karsten, Kris & Andriamandimbiarisoa, Laza & Fox, Stanley & Raxworthy, Christopher. (2008). A unique life history among tetrapods: An annual chameleon living mostly as an egg. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105. 10.1073/pnas.0802468105.

Bonus episode!!! Thank you all for helping us reach over 500 listens :) Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Follow, Like, Support Francisco via his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Francisco-S%C3%A1nchez-205622936184228 ....or his Jamendo page: https://www.jamendo.com/artist/370168/francisco-sanchez Check out more of Francisco's music BELOW!!! Mystery and imagination stories - https://www.jamendo.com/album/195217/mystery-and-imagination-stories Mystery and terror sequences (on FREE SOUND LAB) - https://www.jamendo.com/album/195595/mystery-and-terror-sequences Image by Artie_Navarre from Pixabay (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Kudos to all creators who make amazing, high quality and free content!

Dude...I've spent like 10 days creating an awesome intricate 50-minute episode just for you...just listen to it! You really want me to waste another 5 extra minutes writing an episode description? It's about a psychedelic plant, and witches, and there are ghosts and stuff, the episode title says it all. Just click the play button..and remember, NEVER do drugs!...or poison yourself...or others, as you'll see in the episode, being a ghost is even worse than being alive! And dead people cannot provide me views...so I do care :) ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit Eva the Weaver, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, via Flickr (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Is this really necessary? This is not an academic lecture..and I mostly talk about things which are myths and speculation. Do science people really want their name associated with my show? I didn't think so! But heeeey...I did overtly reference one source, so....out of legal obligation, there, enjoy, bla: Lockie, Andrew (2000). Encyclopedia of Homeopathy (1st ed.). New York: Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 978-0-7566-1871-1. I copied the citation from Wikipedia, I don't know what edition the book I used is, who cares, it's homeopathy...not very academic LOL

We get abducted by communist aliens hell-bent on getting us drunk, stinky and carried away in useless conversations on weird Balkan alien nonsense. Along the way we sing, dance, roast a lamb and forget about Erica…until we sober up a bit and remember this is another collaborative train wreck episode :( Sorry listeners…as a token of our apology...do you want some garlic? ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Erica for helping narrate our absurd nonsense and being so cool! Check out their podcast "Just Might Exist" HERE If you enjoy atrociously pronounced Serbian words, be sure to check out Erica's episode on the Drekavac. ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Balkan Loop Music found at Looperman Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit Панкратов Володимир, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Visoki Dečani Fresco UFO Mothman/Phantom of Ljubovija Croatian Pag Triangle Pag UFO Wave Zagreb 2008 UFO Rtanj Mountain Rtanj Doomsday (NSFW IMAGES OF FAKE ALIEN) Yugoslavian Alien Autopsy Autopsy Hoax Reveal Alien PLASTIC TOY of Niš Croatian Weird Ancient Skulls Croatian Alien Head Belgrade 2020 UFO Pan Adria UFO Incident (Croatian) Pan Adria UFO Incident (English)

We get cartoony with imaginary creatures, infectious diseases, and desecrated animal corpses :) Join us as we attempt to profit off of the demise of a sweet little critter, pick on cryptozoologists, taxidermists and....Americans (Oh my! How blasphemous!) and share some useless unscientific and morbid information that is sure to destroy all our chances of collaborating ever again! ====================== Huge THANK YOU!!! to Lindsey for helping narrate our absurd nonsense and being so cool! Check out their podcast "Just Might Exist" HERE If you enjoy hoax animal nonsense, be sure to check out Lindsey's episode on the Missourium. ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit Joris Hoefnagel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: A LOT of Wikipedia articles City of Douglas Wyoming NY Times: Douglas Herrick, 82, Dies; Father of West's Jackalope Jackalopes of Wyoming – Myth or Reality? Fantastically Wrong: The Disturbing Reality That Spawned the Mythical Jackalope The World's Scariest Rabbit Lurks within the Smithsonian's Collection Escudero, Clara & Williams, Richard & Timm, Robert & Pérez-Tris, Javier & Benitez, Laura. (2015). A Century of Shope Papillomavirus in Museum Rabbit Specimens. PLoS ONE. 10. e0132172. 10.1371/journal.pone.0132172. Zimmer, C. (2011). A planet of viruses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Morrow, William (2013). The Big, Bad Book of Beasts: The World's Most Curious Creatures. ISBN 978-0062087454 Irwin, Ken. (2009). Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference 2008. , ISBN: 978 0 7656 8047 1

Join the party! We be tripping…over…the complexity of this topic, yes :) We're screwed over by termites again, so heeey... since they're a never-ending source of weirdness, let's talk about them again! Never mind the aggregated colonies of the same species… instead, today we showcase the extramarital inter-species union of termites and Termitomyces mushrooms. You already know why we picked this…both have a mutual love of consuming poop!...which, unfortunately, cannot overshadow our love of blasting your ears with S-bombs! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com (Outro was heavily edited by us) Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit This image was created by user Liz Popich (Lizzie) at Mushroom Observer, a source for mycological images, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: My education...cuz today I know what the heck I'm talking about...kinda Wikipedia: Termitomyces Wikipedia: Macrotermitinae Termitomyces: exploring the world's most mysterious mushroom The genus Termitomyces, By Tobias Frøslev ScienceDirect: Termitomyces Forest Floor Narrative: Fungi Friday; Termitomyces titanicus Rouland-Lefèvre, Corinne & Bignell, David. (2004). Cultivation of Symbiotic Fungi by Termites of the Subfamily Macrotermitinae. 10.1007/0-306-48173-1_46. Korb, Judith & Aanen, Duur. (2003). The evolution of uniparental transmission of fungal symbionts in fungus-growing termites (Macrotermitinae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 53. 65-71. 10.1007/s00265-002-0559-y. Brauman, Alain & Bignell, David & Tayasu, Ichiro. (2000). Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology. 10.1007/978-94-017-3223-9_11. Rouland-Lefèvre, Corinne & Inoue, Tetsushi & Jojima, Toru. (2006). Termitomyces/Termite Interactions. 10.1007/3-540-28185-1_14. Margulis, Lynn, and Dorion Sagan (2002). Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species, Perseus Books Group, ISBN 0-465-04391-7

Ever feel the existential dread induced by the realization that you are just another corporate entity from the moment of your inception? Well you should, because you are. ALL OF US ARE! The show gets more philosophical and professional, as today we present you our brand new product: a huge episode, on a huge topic, for the huge fan willing to donate a huge portion of their daily attention, and risk having their brain reprogrammed forever! We will tell you not just the meaning of life, but the meaning of reality itself! And as all great philosophers..we will constantly repeat ourselves and never shut up :) ====================== Diagram 1 Diagram 2 Diagram 3 ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit Frank Fox, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: A LOT of Wikipedia articles I cannot possibly list AlgaeBase: Volvox Linnaeus, 1758 MicrobeWiki: Volvox carteri Umen, James. (2020). Volvox and volvocine green algae. EvoDevo. 11. 10.1186/s13227-020-00158-7. Herron, Matthew & Nedelcu, Aurora. (2015). Volvocine Algae: From Simple to Complex Multicellularity. 10.1007/978-94-017-9642-2_7. Szövényi, Péter & Waller, Manuel & Kirbis, Alexander. (2018). Evolution of the plant body plan. 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2018.11.005. Herron, Matthew & Michod, Richard. (2008). Evolution of Complexity in the Volvocine Algae: Transitions in Individuality Through Darwin's Eye. Evolution; international journal of organic evolution. 62. 436-51. 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00304.x. Herron, Matthew & Hackett, Jeremiah & Aylward, Frank & Michod, Richard. (2009). Triassic origin and early radiation of multicellular volvocine algae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106. 3254-8. 10.1073/pnas.0811205106. Kirk DL. Evolution of multicellularity in the volvocine algae. Curr Opin Plant Biol. 1999;2(6):496-501. doi:10.1016/s1369-5266(99)00019-9 Kirk, David. (2000). Volvox as a Model System for Studying the Ontogeny and Phylogeny of Multicellularity and Cellular Differentiation. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. 19. 265-274. 10.1007/s003440000039. Domozych, David & Domozych, Catherine. (2014). Multicellularity in green algae: Upsizing in a walled complex. Frontiers in plant science. 5. 649. 10.3389/fpls.2014.00649. Matt, Gavriel & Umen, James. (2016). Volvox: A simple algal model for embryogenesis, morphogenesis and cellular differentiation. Developmental Biology. 419. 10.1016/j.ydbio.2016.07.014. Starr, R.. “Colony Formation in Algae.” (1984).

The most asexual episode…that will blow you away with the most F-bombs! Oscillatoria, and all cyanobacteria, are slimy, scummy, invisible…they do not need to be handsome, they are their own partners, and they are EVERYWHERE! You cannot escape them, they will even tear themselves apart in order to hitch a ride on your muddy sneaker….follow you home..and terrorize you with their overt photosynthetic efficiency…and existence…and capabilities to survive for over 3.5 billion years without ever getting laid! However dreadful their lives may seem…they're more successful than our own :) ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia: Prokaryote Wikipedia: Cyanobacteria Microbe Wiki: Oscillatoria Oscillatoria: Occurrence, Thallus Structure and Reproduction Oscillatoria – Classification , Occurrence , Structure and Reproduction AlgaeBase: Oscillatoria Vaucher ex Gomont, 1892 Nuernberg, Dennis & Mariscal, Vicente & Parker, Jamie & Mastroianni, Giulia & Flores, Enrique & Mullineaux, Conrad. (2014). Branching and intercellular communication in the Section V cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus, a complex multicellular prokaryote. Molecular microbiology. 91. 10.1111/mmi.12506. Rani, V. & Ulagalanthaperumal, Elaya Perumal & Sonaimuthu, Palanivel. (2016). Morphology and taxonomy of Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher ex gomont (OSCILLATORIALES, OSCILLATORIACEAE). Indian Journal of Education and Information Management. 5. 1-5. Muhlsteinova, Radka & Hauer, Tomáš & Ley, Paul & Pietrasiak, Nicole. (2018). Seeking the true Oscillatoria: A quest for a reliable phylogenetic and taxonomic reference point. Preslia. 90. 10.23855/preslia.2018.151. Brahamsha, B. and D. Bhaya. “Motility in Unicellular and Filamentous Cyanobacteria.” (2013). Ridley, Christian & Faulkner, D & Haygood, Margo. (2005). Investigation of Oscillatoria spongeliae-Dominated Bacterial Communities in Four Dictyoceratid Sponges. Applied and environmental microbiology. 71. 7366-75. 10.1128/AEM.71.11.7366-7375.2005.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode portrays genuine emotions…it is the saddest episode thus far, but also the funniest as well! Linhenykus monodactylus…the one-fingered wonder…if you are looking for a dinosaur which can properly use scissors…you're at the wrong place :) All this little guy is good for is running..and hugging termite mounds…it cannot even help us create a good episode, even when our show's future is at stake! Will I be able to hold myself together under the pressure of impending doom? Will AL finally bring us back to the past? Find out now! This episode is dedicated to my best friend :) Happy birthday, my poopy friend, and thank you for all the love and support you continue to provide me even in the darkest of times :( ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit Artwork by Julius T. Csotonyi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia: Linhenykus Wikipedia: Alvarezsauridae Linhenykus: A weird, one-fingered dinosaur First One-Fingered Dinosaur Found—Dug for Bugs? Xu, Xing & Sullivan, Corwin & Pittman, Michael & Choiniere, Jonah & Hone, David & Upchurch, Paul & Tan, Qingwei & Xiao, Dong & Tan, Lin & Han, Fenglu. (2011). A monodactyl nonavian dinosaur and the complex evolution of the alvarezsaurid hand. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108. 2338-2342. 10.1073/pnas.1011052108. Xu, Xing & Upchurch, Paul & Ma, Qingyu & Pittman, Michael & Choiniere, Jonah & Sullivan, Corwin & Hone, David & Tan, Qingwei & Tan, Lin & Xiao, Dong & Han, Fenglu. (2011). Osteology of the Late Cretaceous Alvarezsauroid Linhenykus monodactylus from China and Comments on Alvarezsauroid Biogeography. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 10.4202/app.2011.0083. Holtz, Thomas. (2018). Evolution: New Branches on the Alvarezsaur Tree. Current Biology. 28. R941-R943. 10.1016/j.cub.2018.07.014.

Join us as we attempt to pander to completely foreign cultures and expertly emulate their language! Sitta whiteheadi is the very frenchily-named, very mainland-France-inhabiting tiny dinosaur who's hobbies include getting laid…and getting VERY ILLEGALLY shot (a.k.a. formally, scientifically discovered) by those pesky Englishmen >:( Prepare to be offended in the name of another appropriated culture, as we doubt the French and Corsican listeners will last ‘till the intro music :) P.S. I love my French audience and please stay around….I don't have any other fans :'( ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit Àlex Milian, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: French Wikipedia: Sitelle Corse Wikipedia: Nuthatch Wikipedia: Corsica Wikipedia: List of birds of Corsica Fat Birder - Birding Corsica WWF - Mediterranean Sea: Corsica Island Brichetti, P. and Carlo Di Capi. “Conservation of the corsican nuthatch sitta whiteheadi sharpe, and proposals for habitat management.” Biological Conservation 39 (1987): 13-21. THIBAULT, JEAN-CLAUDE & Jenouvrier, Stéphanie. (2006). Annual survival rates of adult male Corsican Nuthatches Sitta whiteheadi. Ringing and Migration. 23. 10.1080/03078698.2006.9674349. Thibault, J.-C & Villard, P.. (2005). Reproductive ecology of the Corsican Nuthatch Sitta whiteheadi. Bird Study. 52. 282-288. Thibault, Jean‐Claude & Prodon, Roger & Villard, Pascal & Seguin, Jean-François. (2006). Habitat requirements and foraging behaviour of the Corsican Nuthatch (Sitta whiteheadi). Journal of Avian Biology. 37. 477 - 486. 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2006.03645.x. THIBAULT, JEAN-CLAUDE & HACQUEMAND, DIDIER & MONEGLIA, PASQUALE & PELLEGRINI, HERVÉ & Prodon, Roger & RECORBET, BERNARD & Seguin, Jean-François & VILLARD, PASCAL. (2011). Distribution and population size of the Corsican Nuthatch Sitta whiteheadi. Bird Conservation International. 21. 10.1017/S0959270910000468.

Join us as we attempt to assemble this fragmented monster of an episode! So many legs. So many pop culture references. So many research papers to sift through! We try our best to separate fact from video game, and find ourselves caught in the crossfire between science and media. Our reputation may be at stake, but in the end…our mutual fascination with poop may unite us all! ====================== Download SCAM: Supreme Coelenteratan Advanced Multiplayer on you mobile devices NOW! Become the Ultimate HAC-er! May eternal be thy Squishy! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: ARK: Survival Evolved Wiki: Arthropleura Dinosaur Wiki: Arthropleura The Fossil Forum: Lycopods on the Menu? A herbivore coprolite mystery... Wikipedia: Carboniferous Wikipedia: Trace Fossil Largest Land-Dwelling “Bug” of All Time National Geographic: Carboniferous Period Why Giant Bugs Once Roamed the Earth Arthropleura, the Giant Prehistoric Millipede Czech Paleontological Society - Images of Arthropleura armata fossils Whyte, Martin. (2018). Mating trackways of a fossil giant millipede. Scottish Journal of Geology. 54. sjg2017-013. 10.1144/sjg2017-013. BRIGGS, D. E. G., PLINT, A., PICKERILL, R. K. 1984. Arthropleura trails from the Westphalian of eastern Canada. Palaeontology, 27, 4, 843–855. Rolfe, W. D. Ian and J. Ingham. “Limb structure, affinity and diet of the Carboniferous ‘centipede' Arthropleura.” Scottish Journal of Geology 3 (1967): 118 - 124. Pearson, P. (1992). Walking traces of the giant myriapod Arthropleura from the Strathclyde Group (Lower Carboniferous) of Fife. Scottish Journal of Geology, 28, 127 - 133. Proctor, C.. “Arthropleurids from the Westphalian D of Writhlington Geological Nature Reserve, Somerset.” (1998). McGhee, G. (2018). Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World. New York; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press. doi:10.7312/mcgh18096

It is finally here, the culmination of spooky season :) HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Join us around the campfire as we discuss scaaaary topics, which may include copyright infringement, weirdly shaped genitalia, underground trafficking of....the disembodied weirdly shaped genitalia, and also.....freaky simulated sex with the weirdly shaped genitalia. Also...please be warned that the episode does NOT contain explicit content :O Ohhh...I'm disturbed just at the thought of that! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit: Eric Hunt, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia 1 Wikipedia 2 Weird genitalia article 1 Weird genitalia article 2 A site dedicated to weird genitals The most AWESOMEST research paper!!! Another awesome research paper The YouTube video much cooler than my episode

They snuggle together to form a bundle of fluffy cottonballs....they are the bat species Ectophylla alba, and they are out to get you....with fuzzy cuteness!!! Just kidding :) These little guys are shy and hide under leaves. They suffer from daddy issues and wouldn't hurt a fly...well...maybe the ones who live inside figs. ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit: Charlie Jackson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia: Honduran white bat Wikipedia: Communal roosting Bat Roosting | HowStuffWorks The World of Tent-making Bats | Bat Conservation International Animal Diversity Web Timm, Robert. (1982). Ectophylla alba. Mamm. Species. 166. 10.2307/3503942. Herrera, Bernal & Ceballos, Gerardo & Medellín, Rodrigo. (2011). Ecological Aspects of the Tent Building Process by Ectophylla alba (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae). Acta Chiropterologica. 13. 365-372. 10.3161/150811011X624839. Timm, Robert & Mortimer, Jeanne. (1976). Selection of Roost Sites by Honduran White Bats, Ectophylla Alba (Chiroptera: Phyllostomatidae). Ecology. 57. 10.2307/1934829.

May lethal be thy squeaky :) In this episode, we delve into the wonderful world of bug farts, and pit beaded lacewings (Lomamyia latipennis), mites (Womersia strandtmanni) and termites against each other, in a battle to determine who is the most fartiest, and deadliest, of them all! These silent ASSassins give Agent 47, and Desmond, a run for their money! ====================== The House of the Atmospheric Coelenterata want YOU! Seek out your local HAC recruiter today! May eternal be thy Squishy! ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit: Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia...duuuh Do Insects Fart? (They Sure Do!) Insects emit “Silent but Deadly” toxic gases to immobilize prey! Termites fart methane, but their mounds filter it from the air Silent and Deadly: Fatal Farts Immobilize Prey Hackstein, J H, and C K Stumm. “Methane production in terrestrial arthropods.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 91,12 (1994): 5441-5. doi:10.1073/pnas.91.12.5441 Johnson, J., Hagen, K. A neuropterous larva uses an allomone to attack termites. Nature 289, 506–507 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/289506a0 Huber I. Prey attraction and immobilization by allomone from nymphs of Womersia strandtmanni (Acarina: Trombiculidae). Acarologia. 1979 Jan;20(1):112-5. PMID: 474050.

In this episode...we go on a date with a fish (Chiasmodon). She is a petite and flexible lady with giant ambitions and many talents. She can be a bit clingy, but inspires us to write poetry. She also has an eating problem that may lead her to an early grave. Can we save her from these destructive habits? Find out today :) ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image credit (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia...of course Amazing Reddit post Fish Swallows Four Times Bigger Prey Fish! Fish Index Melo, M. R. S.. “Revision of the Genus Chiasmodon (Acanthomorpha: Chiasmodontidae), with the Description of Two New Species.” Copeia 2009 (2009): 583 - 608. The House of the Atmospheric Coelenterata want YOU! Join us. Spread the word. May eternal be thy Squishy!

The episode's main character is a cholesterol-infused blobby mess that never gets enough exercise. It rather prefers to eat scraps off of the floor and leave butt impressions on the filthy bacteria-infested bed it calls home. It also tries to talk about an interesting prehistoric species, but without doing its homework :) ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image credit Masahiro Miyasaka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Wikipedia....and all references it already states...the usual

Trichobatrachus robustus, a.k.a the Hairy/Horror/Wolverine frog. Described somewhere after the late 1880s. Short and hairy, it prefers to inadvertently stab everyone who hugs it. Powers & Abilities include enhanced senses, animal-like attributes, a regenerative healing factor, retractable bone claws, an indestructible skeleton (it will destroy it itself before ever giving you a chance) and is a master foot-to-foot combatant. Its whole life, it felt like an animal. Nature made it a freak, we made it into an episode...but we also made it last too long :) ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image Credit: Emőke Dénes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Squeakers: Frogs with Claws, Frogs with "Hair" About the Horror Frog 'Horror frog' breaks own bones to produce claws Blackburn et al. Concealed weapons: erectile claws in African frogs. Biology Letters, 2008; 1 (-1): -1 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0219 BAREJ, M.F., BÖHME, W., PERRY, S.F., WAGNER, P., SCHMITZ, A. (2010) The hairy frog, a curly fighter? – A novel hypothesis on the function of hairs and claw-like terminal phalanges, including their biological and systematic significance (Anura: Arthroleptidae: Trichobatrachus). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 117(2): 243-263.

PLEASE SKIP THIS EPISODE!!!...unless you want to experience cringe so bad it will make YOU crawl out of your own skin! But really....this episode is NOT an accurate representation of what the rest of my podcast is like...the only thing it accurately depicts...is how dishonest portrayal of politeness, decency and what you perceive as "mass appeal" (and using Audacity for the first time EVER) are a recipe for failure! This episode exists just to be mocked by my future self...cuuz at least I cannot sue myself for slander and harassment! :D ====================== ORIGINAL LOSER EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Yay, the very first episode :) Geckolepis megalepis are sneaky little guys that are not afraid to show some skin. Actually, their survival depends on it! Join us as we delve into the life of a relatively new lizard species that loooves to pull a fast one on scientists. We also mix in a small dose of self-mutilation jokes and socialist ideology! SIDENOTE: Apologies for the lower sound quality and.....politeness I guess :P Just like this gecko, I eventually shed my own skin and grew a new, more amazing and confident layer :) ====================== Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com Image credit: Dr. Frank Glaw, Sektion Herpetologie, Zoologische Staatssammlung München (Episode image is heavily edited, the image owner reserves all rights to their image, and is not affiliated with our podcast) SOURCES: Geckolepis megalepis: New Gecko Species Has Exceptionally Large, Fish-Like Scales A new species of gecko with massive scales and tear-away skin New Species of Fish-Scaled Gecko Can (Literally) Jump Out of Its Skin Scherz, Mark D.; Daza, Juan D.; Köhler, Jörn; Vences, Miguel; Glaw, Frank (2017). "Off the scale: a new species of fish-scale gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Geckolepis) with exceptionally large scales"

The new, amazing, bestest most cool slimy radioactive trailer for the show! Send us suggestions and comments to darwinsdeviations@gmail.com Intro/outro of Trailer sampled from "Atmospheric Tension – a slow, warm lightly tense, mysterious quiz music bed with warm pads and synth arpeggios" from https://www.zapsplat.com Intense music sampled from "Sequence (Mystery and Terror) 3" by Francisco Sánchez (@fanchisanchez) at pixabay.com Follow, Like, Support Francisco via his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Francisco-S%C3%A1nchez-205622936184228 ....or his Jamendo page: https://www.jamendo.com/artist/370168/francisco-sanchez Check out more of Francisco's music BELOW!!! Mystery and imagination stories - https://www.jamendo.com/album/195217/mystery-and-imagination-stories Mystery and terror sequences (on FREE SOUND LAB) - https://www.jamendo.com/album/195595/mystery-and-terror-sequences Kudos to all creators who make amazing, high quality and free content!