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b"Sign up for our mailing list! We also have t-shirts and mugs with our logo!\\n\\nIt's our fourth annual updates and corrections episode! I've already had to make a correction to this episode!\\n\\nFurther reading:\\n\\nCassowary, a rare emu-like bird, attacks and kills Florida man, officials say\\n\\nThe dog Bunny's Facebook page\\n\\n3D printed replicas reveal swimming capabilities of ancient cephalopods\\n\\nEnormous ancient fish discovered by accident\\n\\nA rare observation of a vampire bat adopting an unrelated pup\\n\\nPandemic paleo: A wayward skull, at-home fossil analyses, a first for Antarctic amphibians\\n\\nNeanderthals and Homo sapiens used identical Nubian technology\\n\\nEntire genome from Pestera Muierii 1 sequenced\\n\\nAnimal Species Named from Photos\\n\\nCryptophidion, named from photos:\\n\\n\\n\\nThe sunbeam snake showing off that iridescence:\\n\\n\\n\\nShow transcript:\\n\\nWelcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I\\u2019m your host, Kate Shaw.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nIt\\u2019s our fourth annual updates and corrections episode, and to keep it especially interesting we\\u2019ll also learn about a mystery snake. Make sure to check the show notes for lots of links if you want to learn more about these updates.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nFirst, we have a small correction from episode 222. G emailed with a link about a Florida man who was killed by a cassowary in 2019, so cassowaries continue to be dangerous.\\n\\n\\xa0\\nWe also have a correction from episode 188, about the hyena. I called hyenas canids at one point, and although they resemble canids like dogs and wolves, they\\u2019re not canids at all. In fact, they\\u2019re more closely related to cats than dogs. Thanks to Bal for the correction!\\n\\xa0\\n\\nIn response to the talking animals episode, Merike told about a dog who uses computer buttons to communicate. The dog is called Bunny and she\\u2019s completely adorable. I\\u2019ll link to her facebook page. I have my doubts that she\\u2019s actually communicating the way it looks like she is. She\\u2019s obviously a clever dog but I don\\u2019t think she understands the English language so well that she can choose verbs like \\u201cis\\u201d from her list of words. I think she\\u2019s probably mostly taking unconscious cues from her owner. But I would be happy to be proven wrong.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nFollowing up from our recent deep-sea squid episode, a team of paleontologists studying ancient cephalopods 3-D printed some replicas of what the animals would have looked like while alive. Then they took the models into a swimming pool and other water sources to study how their shells affected the way they could move through the water. They discovered that a type of cephalopod with a straight shell, called an orthocone, probably mostly moved up and down in the water to find food and could have moved extremely fast in an upward or downward direction. A type of cephalopod with a spiral shaped shell, called a torticone, also spun slightly as it moved around. The same team has previously worked with 3-D models of ammonoids, which we talked about in episode 86. The models don\\u2019t just look like the living animals, they have the same center of balance and other details, worked out mathematically.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nSpeaking of ancient animals, a collector in London bought a fossil found in Morocco thinking it was part of a pterodactyl skull. When the collector asked a palaeontologist to identify it, it turned out to be a fossilized coelacanth lung. The collector donated the fossil for further study, and the palaeontologist, David Martill, worked with a Brazilian coelacanth expert, Paulo Brito, to examine the fossil.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nThe fossil dates to the Cretaceous, about 66 million years ago, and is bigger than any coelacanth lung ever found. Modern coelacanths grow a little over six feet long at most, or 2 meters, but the estimated length of this Coelacanth is some 16 \\xbd feet, or 5 meters. The fossil is being donated to a university in Morocco.\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nWe talked about vampire bats way back in episode 11, and I love bats and especially vampire bats so I try to keep an eye on new findings about th..."