Weird Species

Weird Species #10: Histriobdella homari – A.k.a. Charlie Chaplin

Ekin Tilic isn't just Senckenberg's resident worm expert, but a science communicator as well: As "spinelessguy," he shares beautiful pictures of all kinds of deep sea inv

Weird Species #9: Apus apus – A swift, not a swallow!

What are the "rules" of biodiversity? How do ecology and evolution interact? These are questions that biologist Hanna Kokko is a renowned expert on, and in this episode o

Weird Species #8: Heloderma suspectum – A pretty chill monster

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

Weird Species #7: Sperm whales - Moby Dick's dark-skinned cousins

Enric Sala used to be a professor of marine biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California. Then he realized that he was "writing the obituar

Weird Species #6: Dorado Octopus - Deep Sea Super Powers

In this episode of „Weird Species“, our guest is Dr. Janet Voight, renowned marine biologist and curator emerita of the Field Museum in Chicago. Earlier this year, she vi

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

Weird Species #4: Choloepus didactylus – Sloth Wisdom

For this episode of "Weird Species", we slow things down a bit: Dr. Irina Ruf, head of the mammalogy section at Senckenberg, talks about her favorite species, the two-toe

Weird Species #3: Populus tremula – Plants and their plans

Plants might not run around, bark at us or seem very active in general, but they are complex organisms with needs, goals, and ways to achieve them. In this episode of "We

Weird Species #2: Dorynota pugionata – The benefits of a telescopic anus

Almost 40 % of insects and about 25 % of all known animal species worldwide are beetles – the fact left british-indian biologist J. B. S. Haldane to remark that "God has

Weird Species #1: Diacamma – the most vicious ant

In the first episode of the new Senckenberg podcast "Weird Species", our host Prof. Dr. Julia Sigwart talks to Dr. Brendon Boudinot, head of Entomology II at Senckenberg,

Weird Species: Trailer

Welcome to "Weird Species," an original podcast by the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research. Join Prof. Dr. Julia Sigwart as she guides you through the fascinating wor