Australia is full of weird plants and animals. And Dr Ann Jones is on speaking terms with most of them!
Each week Ann explores the most unusual elements of our natural world — the ones that make you go What the Duck?! Like why do quolls have spots? Who farts (and who doesn't)? And how do snakes climb trees?
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Hollywood lied to us: Jaws
Jaws (1975) was a massive hit that also created a whole lot of fear, but does anything in the film really stand up to shark science? Do sharks stalk humans? Do they roar? What can they sense?
Duration: 24 minutes 59 seconds
Published: with Ann Jones
Hollywood lied to us: The Little Mermaid
Yes, the Little Mermaid is an animated movie, but if it were real, where would this mermaid paradise be?
Is it plausible that Ursula the Octo-woman would have henchmen in the form of eels?
Duration: 24 minutes 39 seconds
Published: with Ann Jones
Introducing: Sex is Weird (a What the Duck?! series)
How the duck did sex evolve as a major form of reproduction?
Sex is Weird is a brand new series of What the Duck?! with Dr Ann Jones.
Duration: 3 minutes 15 seconds
Published: by Ann Jones
Sex is Weird: Ep 1- The world’s first d*ck pic
When you really think about it, sex to make babies is WEIRD! You take an outie that has to get stuck inside an innie that links into a production line of eggs to assemble a perfect tiny being. It’s so damn complicated!
Duration: 24 minutes 52 seconds
Published: with Ann Jones
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