SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com
episode 12: Marsupials
G'day, mate! This week, we’re taking a trip Down Under (and to South, Central, and North America) to meet our weird mammalian cousins with built-in cargo pockets, the marsupials!
Head to the link below to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents
A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
Antechinus mating
https://www.wired.com/story/antechinus-climate-change/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-a-little-mammal-has-so-much-sex-that-it-disintegrates
https://www.livescience.com/51083-photos-antechinus-new-species.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-17/search-for-endangered-antechinus-after-bushfires-on-gold-coast/12564958
Alaskan marsupial fossil
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uoaf-ndm021819.php
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-ancient-night-marsupial-months-winter.html
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2018.1560369
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app52-217.html
https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/documents/files/PublicRoom_AK_Dinosaurs-on-NorthSlope_booklet_2018.pdf
https://www.npca.org/articles/1822-the-only-marsupial-in-u-s-national-parks
[Ask the Science Couch]
Pouch cleaning
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/science/how-do-female-kangaroos-keep-their-pouches-clean.html
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/08/05/1168902.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339227/
[Butt One More Thing]
Opossums and smelling dead
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/544902/facts-about-opossums
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/opossums-so-darn-ugly-theyre-adorable.htm