Cool Facts About Animals Podcast
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This is a podcast by and for kids giving you the coolest facts about the coolest animals. We research our episodes carefully, distilling the information into manageable segments, focusing on the things that really make these animals unusual. Thanks for listening!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Animal science becomes a funny, questioning family conversation where children's curiosity helps shape the explanation.
Cool Facts About Animals turns animal science into a lively exchange between explanations, children's questions, improvised jokes, and occasional guest interviews.
A toilet rat sends your curiosity toward a plague professor, with plenty of jokes along the way.
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A lively dinosaur face-off where armor, spikes, and a tail club test huge jaws, fierce teeth, and awkward arms.
T-Rex v. Ankylosaurus frames its prehistoric matchup as a clean study in form and function. One side has the massive jaw and severe teeth; the other answers with thick armor, face horns, back spikes, and a 10-foot tail club.
A cat-name test and an object-permanence lesson make feline intelligence feel close, funny, and easy to follow.
Cats get a surprisingly thoughtful intelligence workout here, while the conversation keeps one paw in family comedy. The discussion moves from Carl responding to his own name instead of the similar-sounding "girl" to household cats seeming to recognize other cats' names.
A loose, funny rat episode that balances odd animal facts with clear plague context.
Rats make a brisk, funny return, with sewer and toilet jokes giving way to a run of stranger-than-expected animal facts. The episode moves from chewing, bladder control, prolific pooping, space travel, and Queen Victoria's pet rats into the bigger question of why rats still…
A calm, kid-sized look at plague, from painful buboes to the comfort of understanding disease.
This single-episode review frames a frightening topic as a science conversation that helps danger feel more understandable. Allie and Teddy ask Professor Monica Green about what caused plague, why buboes could swell to the size of a nut or an egg, and how bubonic and pneumonic…
Animal science stays curious, from panda camouflage to salt-seeking ants.
Julie Beer grounds big animal questions in the stuff of everyday family life, starting with a kitchen cabinet and widening into mysteries scientists are still sorting through.
A lively rebroadcast that makes the Schmidt Pain Index easy to remember.
Dr. Justin Schmidt turns stings into a clear science segment, and the Schmidt Pain Index lands because the comparisons are vivid rather than fussy. The episode stays easy to follow and lightly funny as it moves through bees, wasps, bullet ants, and the black wasp.
Meet the food, then hear its story.
Daily TED and TEDx talks hosted by Elise Hu, spanning science, psychology, and creativity.
Pop culture, personal stakes, and room for a tangent.
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The episode introduces a cooking segment where Jaguar plans to prepare dinosaurs, sparking curiosity about the specifics.
The hosts introduce an episode about milk snakes, discussing their name's folklore origin involving stealing milk from calves in barns.
This segment discusses the albatross, highlighting its long wingspan of 11.5 feet.
The host introduces a podcast about animals, mentions a long-running series since Grady was in second grade, and transitions to discussing Patreon support.
The hosts discuss sea otters' cuteness, thank Grace and Evie for money, and ask Jaguar to explain its purpose.
The host introduces a return to discussing cool animal facts, specifically mentioning the Cochineal Beetle, and shares a personal anecdote about a necklace made by Clara for Korda Rae.
This segment features a Patreon sponsor shout-out to Maeve and Jaguar, with a playful exchange about support and money.
This segment thanks a Patreon donor named Penny for choosing an animal topic and humorously discusses the use of donations for legitimate purposes.
The host introduces the podcast episode about scorpions and other animals not found in Oregon, expressing excitement to share facts.
The hosts introduce themselves and thank a Patreon sponsor before hinting at discussing the Portuguese Man of War animal with a dangerous twist related to Girl Scouts.
This replay episode discusses Brood X cicadas emerging across parts of the United States, encouraging listeners to engage with animal facts.
The hosts discuss an exhibit at a science museum featuring various animal defense mechanisms, including poison, venom, and size-changing adaptations, with examples like the bumblebee dart frog and African bullfrog.
The hosts introduce a game called 'Four Truths and a Lie – Bug Edition' where listeners must identify which bug is fictional, after thanking Patreon sponsors.
This special episode of Cool Facts About Animals features 10 facts about axolotls and an interview with Dr.
This rebroadcast episode features an interview with Mr.
Cool Facts About Animals compares T-Rex and Ankylosaurus across size, senses, strengths, speed, diet, and smarts.
Domestic cats are described as living with humans for about 10,000 years, and the episode links that history to grain protection, boat travel, and Egyptian burials with cats.
Cool Facts About Animals says rats get a bad rap because the Black Death killed between 30% and 60% of Europe in the 1300s, and plague still exists today.
["Monica Green tells Allie and Teddy that plague is still present today, with about five human cases a year in the United States and surveillance built around rodent fleas.", "She says medieval writers did not use the term \"Black Death\"; they called it \"the Great Mortality,\" \"the Great Death,\" or \"the Pestilence of Death,\" and she traces modern understanding to the 1894 identification of Yersinia pestis.", "Green explains how flea bites move the bacterium into the lymph system, create buboes the size of a walnut or egg, and lead to bubonic, pneumonic, or septicemic plague.", "She also says the biggest historical mystery is why the 14th-century Black Death killed so many people when the biological evidence does not show a clearly more virulent strain."]
Julie Beer, a writer and editor for National Geographic Kids Books, discusses Why Animals?
Cool Facts About Animals examines ocean plastic through Dr.
Cool Facts About Animals and The Past and the Curious combine a 1925 Nome, Alaska, diphtheria rescue with 10 sled-dog facts.
Cool Facts About Animals contributes a five-minute bald eagle segment to a Kids Listen sampler containing 10 children’s podcasts.