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 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ 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 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ 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 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ 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 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ 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 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ 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 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ 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 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ 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 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ 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 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ Weird Grandma 00:00 no Giant Larvaceans: A critter that spins a new web of sticky mucus every day and lives inside it! 07 Jul 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Larvaeceans.mp3 Weird Grandma http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ Weird Grandma 00:00 no Pufferfish: Balloonfish are among the most poisonous animals on earth! 14 Jul 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Puffers.mp3 Weird Grandma http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ Weird Grandma 00:00 no Sponges that are carnivores, that is, they eat meat! 30 Jul 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Carnivourous_Sponges.mp3 Weird Grandma http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ Weird Grandma 00:00 no The Geoduck is the biggest burrowing clam in the world. It grows to about 3 feet and over 7 pounds 05 Aug 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Pacific_Geoducks.mp3 Weird Grandma http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ Weird Grandma 00:00 no The Torpedo, also called the Pacific electric ray, can generate a pretty good electric jolt that not only numbs the creatures it eats, but can also zap human swimmers when it feels threatened 15 Aug 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFins-Zapperfish.mp3 Weird Grandma http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ Weird Grandma 00:00 no Horn sharks egg cases sometimes wash up on the shore and beachcombers call them "mermaids’ purses." 21 Aug 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFish-Sharks_Purse.mp3 Weird Grandma http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ Weird Grandma 00:00 no The Blobfish, one of the funniest fish faces in the ocean, belongs to a group of fishes called fatheads. 3 Sep 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFish-Blobfish.mp3 Weird Grandma http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ Weird Grandma 00:00 no Gulper eels can open their mouths and swallow something as big or even bigger than they are. 10 Sep 2008 GMT http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/mp3s/WeirdFish-Mighty_Gulpers.mp3 Weird Grandma http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/rss/podcasts/weirdfins/ Weird Grandma 00:00 no