Hagfishology (HAGFISH) with Tim Winegard

Published: April 16, 2019, 2:06 p.m.

b"Hagfish: these floppy hot dogs of the deep sea deserve our undying respect. Tim Winegard is a professional hagfishologist (YES IT'S A WORD) at Chapman University, and he dishes on the world's slimiest treasures. Prepare to hear about swift escapes, spellbinding clots of slime, patchy backstories, aphrodisiacs, outlasting extinction events, why you don't always need a spine, eating your way out of a dead whale, and -- like a slippery messiah -- turning water to slime. Also Alie confronts her fear of m*cus.\\n\\nComparative Biomaterials Lab at Chapman University: https://sites.chapman.edu/fudge/\\n\\nSponsors:\\xa0TrueandCo.com/ologies (code: ologies), TakeCareof.com (code: Ologies50), amazon.com/popchips (code: 20Ologies)\\n\\nThis week's donation went to the Wildlife Research Station: https://www.algonquinwrs.ca\\n\\nMore links at\\xa0alieward.com/ologies/hagfishology\\n\\nBecome a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month:\\xa0www.Patreon.com/ologies\\n\\nOlogiesMerch.com\\xa0has hats, shirts, pins, totes!\\n\\nFollow\\xa0twitter.com/ologies\\xa0or\\xa0instagram.com/ologies\\n\\nFollow\\xa0twitter.com/AlieWard\\xa0or\\xa0instagram.com/AlieWard\\n\\nSound editing by\\xa0Jarrett Sleeper\\xa0of\\xa0MindJam Media\\xa0&\\xa0Steven Ray Morris\\n\\nTheme song by Nick Thorburn\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nSupport the show: http://Patreon.com/ologies"