Podcast · Kids & Family
Terrestrials
by WNYC · English · Kids & Family
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,…
- New episodes
- Every two weeks
- Typical length
- 31 min
- Latest
- 8 Oct 2026
- Language
- English
Latest episode
Earlier episodes 29 most recent
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E54 · 24 Sep 2026 · 34 min
The Hideout: A Monarch Butterfly Mystery
Mexican mountains, moms, magnets, and… monarch butterflies.
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E53 · 10 Sep 2026 · 30 min
The Snow Beast: A Mystery Animal (Replay)
The unpredictable story of a globetrotter.
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E47 · 13 Aug 2026 · 29 min
The Fuzzy Ruckus: The Power of Lichen (Replay)
Artist Ashley (Ash) Eliza Williams was so shy growing up that they found it hard to speak to people. They found comfort scavenging in the forest. One day, Ashley discovered lichen, which quietly changed the course of their life.
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E45 · 30 Jul 2026 · 35 min
Dung Beetles from Just the Zoo of Us
All about poop. And the bugs who love it???
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E43 · 2 Jul 2026 · 40 min
The Travelers Update: A Moon Tree Grows in New York
Breaking Moon Tree news!
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E42 · 18 Jun 2026 · 34 min
The DADventure: Wild Animal Dads from Owl Monkeys to Seahorses
Father Nature
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E41 · 4 Jun 2026 · 31 min
BIG CATS 2: Leopards & Jaguars (2 Fast, 2 FURious)
Fear, forests, felines.
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E39 · 7 May 2026 · 35 min
The Wicked Smoocha: Anglerfish Break A World Record
Where does one creature end and another begin?
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E38 · 23 Apr 2026 · 32 min
The Forest Fairy: Aphids Reveal Hidden Harmonies
The secret harmony of the forest.
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E37 · 9 Apr 2026 · 40 min
The Greeting: Yo-Yo Ma's Humpback Whale Experiment
Can humans communicate with whales through music?
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E33 · 26 Mar 2026 · 31 min
The Red-Eyed Mascot: Loon Resilience in Minnesota
The scrappy strength of loons.
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E8 · 12 Mar 2026 · 25 min
The Snowball: Extreme Squirrels in the Arctic (Replay)
Middle schooler, Aanya, tells us her tale of an up-close encounter with a squirrel in the school yard, which turns into an obsession that leads her to learn about the arctic ground squirrel — the world’s only mammal that can drop its body below freezing and survive in a braindead state for weeks.
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1 Jan 2026 · 29 min
The Present: A Gift from our Furry Friends
A sonic New Year’s gift from the Terrestrials team.
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E27 · 17 Nov 2025 · 37 min
A Podcast Turducken: With Wow in the World, Terrestrials and Circle Round
A giant holiday potluck of stories.
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E6 · 13 Nov 2025 · 35 min
The Hybrid: A Miracle Mule
In the game of life, every species is like an action figure. You got your dogs and your dung beetles, your bald eagles and your blueberries. And for a long time scientists believed it was pretty much impossible for those action figures to mix and make a new kind of action figure that was able to have its own babies (dog beetles? Baldberries? Nah). But, today we tell the story of a four-legged beast in Kentucky whose existence is upending scientific beliefs. If you want a big fat SPOILER, here it is: the creature in question is a mule! After almost 20 years of living her life as a hybrid (a…
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E26 · 30 Oct 2025 · 26 min
The Night Flyer: How Bats sPOOkily Revive Forests
The bats planting trees while we sleep.
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E25 · 16 Oct 2025 · 28 min
Maggies: The Healing Power of Baby Flies
What happens when we push through disgust?
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E24 · 2 Oct 2025 · 32 min
The Travelers: How Moon Trees Hide Among Us
Seeds that took a trip to the moon.
About Terrestrials
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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- Publisher
- WNYC
- Language
- English
- Category
- Kids & Family
- New episodes
- Every two weeks
- Typical length
- 31 min
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
- Feed
- RSS — paste into any podcast app
- Apple Podcasts
- podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1504895463
- Rights
- WNYC Studios
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