Fear Month: Sharks!
SciShow Tangents

Fear Month: Sharks!

Oct 8, 2019
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E48
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SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear continues! This week, Stefan is confronted by his fear of sharks! Thrill as we weave a tale of nigh-immortal sharks! Feel the chills run down your spine as you learn about how weird shark penises are! Try not to scream when you hear about Sharkarado, the Shark Colorado! This episode... might be too scary!!! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail] Still Shark Eggs https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0052551 Tiger Shark Siblings https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/baby-sand-tiger-sharks-devour-their-siblings-while-still-in-the-womb-46192985/ Thermal Vents https://www.livescience.com/61699-skates-eggs-thermal-vents.html [Fact Off] White Shark Café https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/voyage-white-shark-cafe/#data http://whitesharkcafe.org/media/photos-videos https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/28/613394086/great-white-sharks-have-a-secret-cafe-and-they-led-scientists-right-to-it https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Mysterious-great-white-shark-lair-discovered-in-13234068.php https://www.nature.com/articles/415035b Greenland sharks eating seals https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098112001657?via%3Dihub https://animals.mom.me/seals-sleep-4736.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/6/120626-greenland-sharks-seals-sleeping-animals-science/ [Ask the Science Couch] Intromittent organs/penises https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/56/4/705/2198314 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/06/scienceshot-birds-disappearing-penis Shark claspers https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-shark-penises-evolved https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7698 https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/clasper [Butt One More Thing] Coprolite shark tooth https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/fossils/that-time-a-prehistoric-shark-took-a-bite-out-of-a-turd/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

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