Summary: <p>Let’s learn about horseshoe crabs and cone snails! The former is harmless, the latter is deadly. Both are interesting!</p> <p>This episode’s animals are inspired by the podcast <a href="https://corbinmaxey.com/podcast-1/">Animals to the Max</a> and by the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Survivors-Organisms-Attack-Defend-ebook/dp/B01N1786VZ"><em>Strange Survivors</em></a> by Dr. Oné R. Pagán. Check both out because they are awesome!</p> <p>A horseshoe crab will never hurt you and just wants to be left alone to be a horseshoe crab:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-518" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/horseshoe-crab3-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169"></p> <p>A trilobite fossil:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-523" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Trilobite-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p>A cone snail just wants to be left alone to be a cone snail but it will kill you if it has to:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-519" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cone-snail-australian-geographic-300x176.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="176"></p> <p>Above: the stripey tube thing is the snail’s siphon, the pink tube thing is the snail’s proboscis, or VENOM DUCT.</p> <p>The Glory of the Sea has a pretty shell:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-520" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/conus-gloriamaris-300x267.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="267"></p> <p>More cone snail shells:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-521" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/conesnailshells-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p>The rarest seashell in the world:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-522" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/incomparabilis-270x300.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="300"></p> <p><strong>Show transcript:</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.</p> <p>This week we’re going to look at animals inspired by a book I recently read and a podcast I recently discovered.</p> <p>The podcast is called Animals to the Max, and it’s one of several new animal podcasts that I</p>
