
Could Charmander exist in real life?
12/27/2025 | 1 mins.
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How do fish get into isolated mountain lakes?
12/26/2025 | 3 mins.
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Aerial stocking: The practice of releasing hatchery fish into a natural body of water from airplanes. Panspermia: The theory that life on Earth may have come from other parts of the universe. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ancestor Paradox
12/25/2025 | 4 mins.
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Genealogy: a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor. Genetic ancestor: a person from whom an individual is biologically descended Genetic ancestry: the genetic origin of a person's population, and the specific lines of descent through which they inherited DNA from their ancestors. Pedigree: the recorded ancestry, especially upper-class ancestry, of a person or family. Pedigree collapse: a term used in genealogy to describe when the number of distinct ancestors in a family tree is smaller than it would be otherwise. MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

inside of your body is REALLY LOUD
12/24/2025 | 3 mins.
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: Otoacoustic emissions: sounds given off by the inner ear when responding to a sound Ear rumbling: a dull sound that occurs when the tensor tympani muscle in the middle ear contracts MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are Scientists Going Extinct?
12/23/2025 | 5 mins.
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: AI: the general ability of computers to emulate human thought and perform tasks in real-world environments Machine learning: a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows systems to learn and improve from data without being explicitly programmed MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info If you like what we do, you can help us! - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Buy our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Buy our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Sign up to our newsletter: http://news.minuteearth.com - Share with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices



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