Terrestrials

The Badgerpalooza: A Chaos of Questions!

From killer snails to flying beavers, our panel of experts answer your wildest questions! At the end of every Terrestrials episode, we hand over the mic to our brilliant

Shenanigans from Weirdly Helpful

This week, we’re bringing you an episode from our friends at Weirdly Helpful, a podcast we love. And we’re talking about… shenanigans! High-spirited, mischievous activiti

The Green Goblins: Carnivorous Plants Bite Back

Pull on your wading boots because we’re taking you on a haunted swamp tour… of meat-eating plants! Our journey begins in a bog in North Carolina, where a fly lands on wha

El escondite: Un misterio de la mariposa monarca

Just in time to commemorate Day of the Dead, we are releasing a special Spanish version of our monarch butterflies episode! Este episodio nos lleva a las montañas del cen

The Night Flyer: How Bats sPOOkily Revive Forests (Replay)

This Halloween, we’re going to the dark side. Deep in the darkest tropical forests, some of the world’s most elusive bats hang upside down in their winged sleeping bags.

The Scarecrow: Scaring Birds with Mary Roach

It’s an epic humans-versus-birds showdown in this follow-up to last week’s crows episode! Ever since humans started farming, birds have been eating our crops. And for cen

The Goths: Befriending Clever Crows

Spooky season is upon us and so we are bringing you a tale of Halloween’s eeriest avian mascot. Emma Terry is friends with basically everyone in her town. She personifie

The Hideout: A Monarch Butterfly Mystery

As the leaves begin to change and the air cools, monarch butterflies disappear from our skies and journey …where?  The mysterious migration of this iconic butterfly stump

The Snow Beast: A Mystery Animal (Replay)

Today we bring you a story stranger than fiction. In 2006, paleobiologist Natalia Rybczynski took a helicopter to a remote Arctic island near the North Pole, spending her

The Wallowers: A Buffalo Comeback Story

Ervin Carlson grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana hearing stories about buffalo (aka American bison) who once roamed the land by the hundreds of thousands. Th

Celestials: A Bedtime Snail Story Experiment

Meet François Tranquille. He's a snail. He's French. And this is the first episode of a little experiment we're calling Celestials: Bedtime Stories from Terrestrials. Res

The Fuzzy Ruckus: The Power of Lichen (Replay)

Artist Ashley (Ash) Eliza Williams was so shy growing up that they found it hard to speak to people.  Instead, they withdrew from the world of humans and found comfort in

The Jimothy: Seattle Raccoon Steals Hearts

If you’ve been on the internet recently, you might’ve heard of Jimothy—a raccoon from Seattle who went viral. Jimothy t-shirts, murals, tattoos, and tribute songs popped

Dung Beetles from Just the Zoo of Us

It’s summer break! So, while Terrestrials takes a summer breather,, we’re bringing you a show that we really love. It’s called Just the Zoo of Us, and it’s produced by El

The Charmer: King Cobras' FANGtastic Powers

Lulu has been terrified of snakes all her life. But strangely, her oldest son  has been obsessed with them since he was two. So to understand his fascination, she called

The Travelers Update: A Moon Tree Grows in New York

The director of horticulture at Madison Square Park, Stephanie Lucas, spends her days caring for over 300 trees in the heart of New York City. One day in 2022, she saw a

The DADventure: Wild Animal Dads from Owl Monkeys to Seahorses

What does it really mean to be a dad? In the animal world, fathers have long been painted as aggressive or absent. At best providers and protectors, but certainly not car

BIG CATS 2: Leopards & Jaguars (2 Fast, 2 FURious)

We're back with PURR-T TWO of our big cats journey, and this time, we’re heading even deeper into the cat-iverse.  We travel to India, where conservationist Shatrunjay P

BIG CATS: Lions, Tigers & Roars (Oh My!)

Big cats are our most requested animal, but Lulu doesn’t really want to make an episode about them! . She thinks lions, tigers, and their feline cousins are the bullies o

The Wicked Smoocha: Anglerfish Break A World Record

In the depths of the ocean, a tiny male anglerfish catches a scent and follows it through the darkness. Eventually he finds a glowing, toothy female with a bacterial ligh