Terrestrials

Biweekly nature episodes exploring surprising animal and plant behavior AI summary

WNYC Visit website › Kids & Family · EN · 76 episodes · latest 2026-11-12

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Welcome, nature lovers, to the home of the Terrestrials podcast and family-friendly Radiolab episodes about nature. Every other week, host Lulu Miller will take you on a nature walk to encounter a plant or animal behaving in ways that will surprise you. Squirrels that can regrow their brains, octopuses that can outsmart their human captors, honeybees that can predict the future. You don’t have to be a kid to listen, just someone who likes to see the world anew. You’ll hear a range of nature stories on this podcast. Sometimes these will be brand new Terrestrials episodes, full of original songs (by “The Songbud” Alan Goffinski) that tell a fantastical-sounding story about nature that is 100% true. Sometimes these will be our very best, shiniest, furriest, leafiest Radiolab episodes about animals or plants or nature. The stories that drop here will always be family-friendly and safe for kids. They will always be sound-rich and full of the vivid, gripping storytelling you’ve come to expect from Radiolab. They will always transport you to the beyond-human world: into the depths of the ocean, into jungles, prairies, forests, space, snow, wildflower fields and beyond. Sometimes we’ll encounter something so wild we just have to break out into song about it! Don’t worry, good voices not required. Join us on this adventure!

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Latest episodes

  1. The Badgerpalooza: A Chaos of Questions!

    2026-11-12 · 40 min · Episode 62

    The badgers take over.

  2. Shenanigans from Weirdly Helpful

    2026-11-05 · 22 min · Episode 60

    Being silly for the thrilly.

  3. The Green Goblins: Carnivorous Plants Bite Back

    2026-10-30 · 34 min · Episode 59

    A tour of carnivora flora

  4. El escondite: Un misterio de la mariposa monarca

    2026-10-29 · 37 min · Episode 58

    Montañas, mamás, imanes, y…mariposas monarcas.

  5. The Night Flyer: How Bats sPOOkily Revive Forests (Replay)

    2026-10-22 · 26 min · Episode 57

    The bats planting trees while we sleep.

  6. The Scarecrow: Scaring Birds with Mary Roach

    2026-10-15 · 23 min · Episode 56

    The power of confusion.

  7. The Goths: Befriending Clever Crows

    2026-10-08 · 31 min · Episode 55

    Un-haunting the crow.

  8. The Hideout: A Monarch Butterfly Mystery

    2026-09-24 · 34 min · Episode 54

    Mexican mountains, moms, magnets, and… monarch butterflies.

  9. The Snow Beast: A Mystery Animal (Replay)

    2026-09-10 · 30 min · Episode 53

    The unpredictable story of a globetrotter.

  10. The Wallowers: A Buffalo Comeback Story

    2026-08-27 · 33 min · Episode 51

    The resurrection.

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Publisher details

Oldest episode in feed
09/2022 · over 4 years
Typical length
26 min
Format
Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
Keywords
kids, radiolab, kids, children, educational, podcast, fun, podcast

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