wonders

EarthDate 452 Sprites and Elves

Episode

452

Sprites and Elves

December 23, 2025

EarthDate 450 Return of the Mammoth, woolly mouse

Episode

450

Return of the Mammoth

December 9, 2025

EarthDate 444 What does a mummy smell like, mummies

Episode

444

What Does a Mummy Smell Like?

October 28, 2025

EarthDate 443 Plants that eat bugs

Episode

443

Plants That Eat Bugs

October 21, 2025

A tardigrade (Paramacrobiotus craterlaki) in moss.

Episode

437

Indestructible Water Bears

September 9, 2025

A depiction of how Earth might look if it had rings.

Episode

432

Did Earth Have Rings

August 5, 2025

A mixed zooplankton sample

Episode

426

Earth’s Greatest Migration

June 24, 2025

Sunrise on the Tetons

Episode

418

Grand Teton National Park

April 29, 2025

The Wallace Line is an imaginary boundary that separates diverse animal populations found on the Southeast Asian Sunda and Australian Sahul continental plates.

Episode

415

Mystery of the Wallace Line

April 8, 2025

A frozen wood frog held in the lab.

Episode

403

Frogsicles

January 14, 2025

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo sequence of four moons of Saturn passing in front of their parent planet. The moons, from far left to right, are the white icy moons Enceladus and Dione (each preceded by their own shadow), the large orange moon Titan, and icy Mimas.

Episode

402

How Planets Get Moons

January 7, 2025

Rakus with his wound, on June 23, 2022, two days before he was observed applying a poultice of medicinal leaves.

Episode

399

Orangutan, Heal Thyself

December 17, 2024

The mushrooms of Armillaria ostoyae are the fruiting bodies of a much larger organism that spreads underground.

Episode

396

The Humongous Fungus “Among-Us”

November 26, 2024