This episode's hypotheses:

• Fauns actively try to deter humans from finding them attractive, but it is not working
• We don't talk about the great apes
• Legs for days?
• Partying is a valid survival strategy

We apologize for the audio issues in this episode.

Art by Kim Hastings: @kvhastings on instagram and @kiviha on tumblr Theme music and editing assistance provided by Bristol Pod Works. For help getting started with your own podcast, contact [email protected].

Episode Hypotheses:

• griffins have a surprising amount in common with silky chickens
• hide your wife, hide your gold
• Pliny the Elder has an alarming number of opinions

Art by Kim Hastings: @kvhastings on instagram and @kiviha on tumblr. Theme music and editing assistance provided by Bristol Pod Works. For help getting started with your own podcast, contact [email protected]

This episode's hypotheses:

• spiders have bones (at least the giant ones)
• giant spiders are actually not spiders at all
• evolution really struggles with an eight-limb body plan

Art by Kim Hastings: @kvhastings on instagram and @kiviha on tumblr Theme music and editing assistance provided by Bristol Pod Works. For help getting started with your own podcast, contact [email protected]

Mermaids

This episode’s hypotheses:

• Mermaids communicate primarily using a form of sign language
• In some species, male merpersons carry and rear the young
• Mermaid belly buttons may not, in fact, be their belly buttons
• Taxonomic categorization is sloppy at best, restrictive at worst

Art by Kim Hastings: @kvhastings on instagram and @kiviha on tumblr Theme music and editing assistance provided by Bristol Pod Works. For help getting started with your own podcast, contact [email protected]