Wildlife

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Extinct Super Sharks, Mysterious Die Offs, Stopping Attacks

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Today, you’ll learn about a new project trying to keep humans and sharks separate and safe, how all sharks almost mysteriously went extinct 19 million years ago, and how great white sharks may have contributed to the extinction of a shark twice its size!

There’s a Lot You Don’t Know About Sharks

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But in the meantime, here are some fin-tastic facts you probably didn’t know about sharks.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: A Town Where Wireless Signals Are Banned, Why Fish Stink, and a Personality Health Test

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Learn about why wireless signals are completely banned from Green Bank, West Virginia; why fish stinks but chicken doesn’t; and how to find out if you have a healthy personality.

Shark Week: The Podcast - How Shark Fishing Funds Human Trafficking

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Luke Tipple is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the Outlaw Ocean Ian Urbina, who has dedicated his life to chronicling crime on the high seas. They discuss the state of our world’s oceans, how nearly 20% of your seafood was likely caught illegally, and the surprising link between modern slavery and the killing of sharks.

Baby Sharks are in Hot Water

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Climate change impacts everything. From rising ocean levels to record-breaking wildfires, we can see the changes occurring with our own eyes. One of the most resilient species of all time is the shark. Warming waters are challenging their ability to adapt, and one of the signs of the times is smaller baby sharks that are having a hard time surviving.

Shark Week: The Podcast - How Did a Shark Encounter Survivor Become an Advocate for Their Protection?

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Shark Week’s Luke Tipple welcomes professional photographer Mike Coots, who lost his leg to a tiger shark attack when he was only 18. But after his horrific injury, he came to love sharks, and became a lifelong advocate for their safety. Luke and Mike discuss his career, his love for photographing sharks, and how to positively approach the big life-changing moments that can happen to any of us.

Shark Week: The Podcast - Superstar Kesha Lifts the Gag Order on Saving Sharks

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Pop superstar Kesha joins Shark Week’s Luke Tipple on the podcast to discuss her love of sharks, how her music funds her addiction to diving, and how you can find inner peace while under the water. And at the end, our researcher Sierra drops in to tell us that some sharks have teeth in their eyes.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Blood Brothers, Seeing-Eye Shark, Bark vs. Bite

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Today, you’ll learn about how some sharks have social relationships, how shark attacks often happen because swimming humans look like other sea creatures, and how your cat might be snacking on endangered sharks!

Curiosity Daily Podcast: You Have A Type, Harmful Shark Myths, and Why Airplane Engines Have Spirals

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Learn about the truth behind harmful myths about sharks to help you celebrate Shark Week; the surprising purpose of the spiral on airplane engines; and how you can supercharge your relationships with research that shows you really do have a “type.”

Shark Week: The Podcast - Do You Have the Guts to Be a Shark Handler?

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Host Luke Tipple welcomes a pair of divers – Leigh Cobb and Josh Eccles – who have taken their passion for sharks and turned it into a dangerous career. They explore what it takes to swim with sharks for a living, then go into common myths and facts on what to do in the open water – if you ever come face to face with a shark. Plus, our researcher Sierra drops by with a new species of shark discovered in the freezing depths of the ocean.

The Great Easter (Shark) Egg Hunt

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In the United States, we know that every April brings a giant bunny hiding an array of colorful eggs that vary in size, color and texture. But did you know the ocean’s got its own version?!

Shark Week: The Podcast - Shipwrecked & Surrounded by Sharks

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This week, we do things a little differently, as Shark Week’s Luke Tipple invites Adventure Aaron into the podcast studio to talk about his incredible near-death experience on the open water. Adventure Aaron gets into what it takes to circumnavigate the world in an ocean rowboat, what it’s like to stare eye-to-eye with an oceanic white tip that probably wants you for lunch, and everything else that happened to him when his boat was capsized, and he was lost by himself at sea.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Early Warning Birds, Ancient Fairy Tales, Breaks vs. Sprains

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Learn about how birds could help us predict natural disasters; fairy tales’ old origins; and how breaks and sprains heal.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why People Are Afraid of Sharks, Discovery of 4 “Walking” Shark Species, and Fighting Climate Change with Rocks

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To celebrate Shark Week, learn about why people are afraid of sharks; how scientists discovered four new species of “walking” sharks (also called epaulette sharks); and how enhanced rock weathering might help us fight climate change with rocks.

Shark Week: The Podcast – Filming Sharks as a Career

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Luke Tipple catches up with cinematographer, shark expert and star of Air Jaws: Top Guns, Andy Casagrande.

The Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act Passed the US Senate

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On World Ocean’s Day 2021, CHOW (Capitol Hill Ocean Week) took a CHOMP out of the threats that sharks are still enduring. The CHOW bite came in the form of the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act (SFSEA- S. 1106), which recently passed the senate and is now returning to the House for approval.

Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why Some Words Are More Memorable, How Hair Growth Works, and How Fish End Up in Landlocked Lakes

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Learn about why some words are more memorable than others; how hair growth works; and how fish end up in landlocked lakes.

Shark Week: The Podcast - How Many Sharks Are Yet to Be Discovered?

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Luke Tipple is joined by Shark Week host and all-around adventurer Forrest Galante. They discuss his upcoming special Alien Sharks: South Africa, Forrest’s remarkable talent for finding creatures once believed to be extinct, and how many shark species may still be unknown. Then, our researcher Sierra stops by to tell us about the world’s most prehistoric shark.