Creature Classic: Biomimicry

Creature Feature

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Science, Education, Comedy

4.6 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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One of my favorite past episodes, Ellen Weatherford and I talk about wild human inventions inspired by animal designs!

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0:44.8	Welcome to Creature Feature Production of IHeartRadio.
0:50.0	I'm your host of many parasites, Katie Golden.
0:52.6	I studied psychology and evolutionary biology,
0:55.3	and today on the show we are talking about biomimicry.
0:59.3	It is when humans plagiarized from animals.
1:03.2	We are not given any royalties to these creatures,
1:06.1	and yet we use them as inspiration for our inventions.
1:11.6	We're talking about shark skin suits in a non-handlector way.
1:18.0	Butterfly money.
1:19.6	We're talking about gecko tape.
1:22.4	And I have a guest who is bringing up some mystery animals even to me.
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