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Dinosaur Parasites! - Even the mighty T. rex was covered in creepy, crawly parasites.
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Dinosaur Parasites!
Even the mighty T. rex was covered in creepy, crawly parasites.
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What Happens When You Get Rabies?
Rabies may have lead to legends of werewolves, vampires, and zombies.
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Why Does This Frog Have So Many Legs?!
These frogs can have up to TEN back legs.
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The Case For Eating Bugs
I ate a lot of bugs...and (mostly) liked them.
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Grow Your Own Crystals!
What should you do with the borax you have leftover from making slime?
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What Does Lead Poisoning Do To Your Brain?
How does lead damage our brains—and what can we do to stop it?
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Are Bees the Addicts of the Animal Kingdom?
Bees get more than just nectar from the flowers they visit.
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Meet The Frog That Barfs Up Its Babies
These extinct frogs used to barf up their babies.
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The Strangest Plant In The World?!
The plant Hydnora africana is a parasite that smells foul...
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What Your Earwax Says About You
Your gross earwax can reveal a ton about who you are.
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Is Fear Contagious? | Gross Science
Fear may be able to spread from person to person—just like a virus.
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Everything You Didn't Want To Know About Snot
You swallow a ton of snot every single day. Welcome to the gross world of mucus.
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Plants Use An Internet Made of Fungus
It's called the "Wood Wide Web."
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Sea Cucumbers Have Multipurpose Butts
Meet the most versatile butts in the animal kingdom.
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The REAL Rudolph Has Bloody Antlers and Super Vision
Santa's reindeer just got a whole lot more interesting.
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Can Bird Poop Make Clouds?
Bird poop could help clouds form, keeping our planet a little bit cooler. Gross!
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Electronics Powered by Fish Scales
What should you do with stinky old fish skins? How about powering your cellphone?
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Defensive Vomiting
If you're attacked you could run away, fight back...or you could barf. Gross!
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Help a Snail Find True Love!
You can help a special snail find a mate—while also helping scientists unravel a mystery.
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What Sound Does An Ant Make?
Ant language sounds wacky—and can be hacked.
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The Chemistry of Skunk Spray
How do you get rid of skunk odor? Don't use tomato juice... use chemistry!
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Why Do Dogs Eat Poop?
It's called "coprophagia," and lots of dogs do it.
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Is Inbreeding Really That Bad?
Inbreeding...It's hugely taboo for us, but lots of organisms do it.
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The Food Poisoning Lurking In Your Freezer
Listeria turns your own cells against you.
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Are There Dead Wasps In Figs?
Figs aren't exactly fruits...but that's not the only bizarre thing about them.
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How (and Why) to Make a Pill Out of Poop
The latest clinical trials for poop pills that can fight a gut infection failed.
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What Really Causes Sunburns?
The way the sun damages your skin is weirder than you ever thought.
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4 Deadly Carnivorous Plants
Here are four ingenious ways carnivorous plants catch their prey.
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Sea Turtles Get Herpes, Too
Sea turtles can get herpes. And human pollution might be making their flare-ups worse.
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Science, Sex Bias, and...Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
Science has historically ignored females, whether they're insects, lab rats, or humans.
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The World's Most Expensive Fungus
The priciest fungus in the world is a parasite that grows from a caterpillar’s head.
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Hookworms and the Myth of the "Lazy Southerner"
The stereotype of the "lazy Southerner" may have been caused by hookworm infection
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Why Am I Obsessed With Gross Stuff?
Thanks for watching me make a fool of myself for one whole year!
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Three Facts About Periods
Knowing more about periods is important for everyone’s health.
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