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MonsterTalk

The Blair Fish Project

MonsterTalk

Monster House LLC

History, Science, Society & Culture, Natural Sciences

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2012

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

For thousands of years, people who made their living by working the sea have reported creatures that appeared to be half-human and half-fish. Some of these stories are legends and fairy tales, but more recent sightings are reported as real animals. Confounding things even more are mummified mermaids brought to Europe from sailors coming back from Asia. A recent Animal Planet “documentary” claimed that mermaids are real and the US government is hiding the truth. This week on MonsterTalk, we interview museum curator (and mermaid-model expert) Paolo Viscardi. READ episode notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

0:05.0

If you like this podcast, can we recommend another one?

0:08.0

It's called Big Picture Science.

0:10.0

You can hear it wherever you get your podcast and its name tells part of the story

0:14.2

The big picture questions and the most interesting research in science.

0:19.5

Seth and I are the. Seth is a scientist.

0:22.7

I am Molly and I'm a science journalist

0:24.4

and we talk to people smarter than us

0:26.9

and we have fun along the way.

0:28.4

The show is called Big Picture Science

0:30.1

and as Seth said, you can hear it wherever you get your podcast.

0:39.2

So I asked myself, how could this thing stay hidden so long. Then you realize that the surface of the moon has been explored more than the deep oceans and you look at the fact that even to this day there are still large animals being discovered

0:55.8

There have been two new species of whales discovered in just the past decade

1:00.3

These are 30 foot 40 foot long animals that have never been seen before, never been recorded.

1:06.0

Giant animals found for the first time ever in just the past 10 years.

1:11.0

So yeah, it's possible. It's still possible to stay hidden. But of course, this animal we found had been recorded before.

1:20.0

We have no record, we have no scientific record of them, but there's another

1:27.4

record. We know them. We've known them all long

1:35.4

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before

1:40.4

A giant hairy creature Part 8, Pardonat.

1:45.0

In Lark Ness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the Highlands of Scotland.

1:50.0

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. Monster Talk.

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