Feed Editor 15 Feb 2008 17:51:06 GMT Welcome to WeirdFins, a NOAA Fisheries Service Web site and weekly podcast about strange - and sometimes just plain bizarre - creatures that inhabit the sea. Each edition is only two minutes long, but we guarantee you will learn something new each time, just as you can learn new things about the oceans and atmosphere on the hundreds of other NOAA Web links. And if you have heard of a weird sea creature that you like to see featured on WeirdFins, contact us at: weirdfins@noaa.gov http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ en no The Sea Hare is a giant Sea Slug weighing over two pounds 18 Feb 2008 17:51:06 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Sea_Hares.mp3 Weird Grandma 00:00 no The Sea Cucumber is shaped like a cigar and can shoot its innards out at an enemy. 19 Feb 2008 21:22:47 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Sea_Cucumbers.mp3 WeirdFins - Episode 2: the Sea Cucumber Weird Grandma 00:00 no The Giant Ocean Pillbug can grow up to a foot long. 20 Feb 2008 21:13:31 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Giant_Ocean_Pillbugs.mp3 Weird Grandma WeirdFins - Episode 3: Giant Ocean Pillbugs Weird Grandma 00:00 no The Giant Oarfish is a real-life sea monster that’s shiny silver and has a big red crest on its head. 14 Mar 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Giant_Oarfish.mp3 Weird Grandma WeirdFins - Episode 4: Giant Oarfish Weird Grandma 00:00 no The Oyster Toadfish is an ugly fish that lives along the Atlantic shoreline and sounds like a foghorn. 22 Mar 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Noisy_Toadfish.mp3 Weird Grandma WeirdFins - Episode 5: Noisy Toadfish Weird Grandma 00:00 no Baby shark cannibals that eat their brothers and sisters before any of them are even born! 29 Mar 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Baby_Shark_Cannibals.mp3 Weird Grandma WeirdFins - Episode 6: Baby Shark Cannibals Weird Grandma 00:00 no The Yeti crab is a really fluffy crustacean that lives in the Pacific Ocean off South America. 9 Apr 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Yeti_Crab.mp3 Weird Grandma WeirdFins - Episode 7: The Yeti Crab Weird Grandma 00:00 no The world's tiniest fish, a deep-sea male anglerfish, is only a quarter-inch long. 9 May 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Anglerfish.mp3 Weird Grandma WeirdFins - Episode 8: Big Mom, Tiny Dad Weird Grandma 00:00 no Many kinds of cod-icefishes, which live near the South Pole, make a kind of antifreeze so that the icy water doesn't kill them 9 Jun 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Anti-freeze Fish.mp3 Weird Grandma WeirdFins - Episode 9: Anti-Freeze Fish Weird Grandma 00:00 no The Hagfish, the slimiest, gooeyist fish in the sea 30 Jun 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Hagfish.mp3 Weird Grandma WeirdFins - Episode 9: Anti-Freeze Fish Weird Grandma 00:00 no