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- 75
- Transcribed
- 1,965
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 196M
- YouTube views
About ExtinctZoo
Your one stop shop for all things dinosaurs, paleontology and extinct animals. Kickback, relax and learn all about the amazing creatures that once existed - welcome to the digsite!
- Publisher
- ExtinctZoo
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Jan 2024
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
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14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Could Cheetahs Survive In Australia?
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Every Time Something Has Evolved Into A Snake
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Could Cheetahs Survive In Australia?
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And on January 31st, 2026, Cobar reached 47.6 degrees Celsius. 47.6. And in freedom units, that is around 117.7 degrees. And honestly, at that temperature, I'm not even sure that air still counts as air anymore. So surely our cheetah experiment is basically already over, right? Well, not quite. As cheetahs have a trick up their sleeve, or rather, paw. When researchers tracked cheetahs in Botswana, they noticed that as temperatures increased, the cats shifted more of their activity into the night, and the hotter it became, the stronger that shift was. So then during the middle of an Australian summer, we probably wouldn't expect to find them sprinting across the landscape at two in the afternoon, and would rather more likely be chilling under a tree, cursing the heavens for their predicament. […]
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- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 72 ratings
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- 4.5 / 5
- 1,893 ratings
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- 93
- Engagement
- 89
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