Episode 14: New Species—of flying tarantulas with eleven eyes that can live for 20 years behind secret doors!
Dr. Rebecca Godwin is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Piedmont University in Demorest, Georgia, USA. She talks to us about her paper published in ZooKeys in which she describes 33 new species of ...
20 Huhti 202132min
Episode 13: New Species—of high mountain jaguar moths and caterpillars that glow (fluoresce, actually)!
National Geographic Explorer Joe Martinez is a Ph.D. student in the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity in the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. He talks to u...
13 Huhti 202128min
Episode 12: New Species—of peacock spider named after a famous fish!
Joseph Schubert is the Legacy Registration Officer for Entomology and Arachnology at Museums Victoria in Australia. He talks to us about his paper published in Evolutionary Systematics in which he des...
6 Huhti 202127min
Episode 11: New Species—of African bats and how they help control pests, and how bats help make tequila!
Dr. Bruce Patterson is the MacArthur Curator of Mammals at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. He talks to us about his paper published in the April issue of the Zoological Journal of the ...
30 Maalis 202129min
Episode 10: New Species—of muscid flies from North America, and the thrill of naming new species!
Dr. Jade Savage is a Professor of Biology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Bishop’s University in Quebec, Canada. She talks to us about her recent paper published on March 15th in ZooKeys! ...
23 Maalis 202134min
Episode 9: New Species—17 of them—of ant-like spiders from the Afrotropical region.
Episode 9: New Species—17 of them—of ant-like spiders from the Afrotropical region. Ruan Booysen is a Ph.D. student at Free State University in South Africa. He talks to us about his recent paper publ...
16 Maalis 202126min
Episode 8: New Species—of daddy longlegs named after a Warhammer 40k character, a Twitter challenge for listeners, and new genera and families!
Dr. Shahan Derkarabetian is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He talks to us about his upcoming paper to ...
9 Maalis 202131min
Episode 7: New Species—of slime-producing hagfishes, including the “ghost” hagfish, from the Galapagos Islands!
Dr. Doug Fudge, an Associate Professor in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University where he heads the Comparative Biomaterials Lab, is our guest for this episode. He talks to...
2 Maalis 202133min
