How Do Mussels Get Their Shells?
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public
4.3 • 5.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We're heading to the coast of Maine to learn a little bit about why the sea is salty and how mussels get their shells with Zach Whitener, a research associate at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine.
We also get an answer to a question to how you get a ship in a bottle from Colorado-based ship-in-bottle builder Daniel Siemens in this encore episode from 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's me, Jane. |
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| 0:36.0 | We can only answer questions from kids around the world just like you because of supporters, |
| 0:41.6 | just like you. |
| 0:44.6 | Some fish are really neat. |
| 0:46.0 | My favorite fish of them all are called L-wives. |
| 0:49.4 | We call them anagemas. |
| 0:58.6 | There's your vocabulary word for the day, anagemas. |
| 1:10.4 | This is But Why, a podcast for curious kids from Vermont Public Radio. |
| 1:15.9 | You ask the questions and we help find the answers. |
| 1:19.6 | I'm Jane Lindholm and in this episode we are taking the podcast to see. |
| 1:24.9 | We're heading to the coast of Maine to learn a little bit about why the sea is salty, |
| 1:29.1 | how muscles get their shells and why a lobster with no claws, no antenna and no eyes will |
| 1:35.6 | probably still come out okay. |
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