The Spellbook: Ancient Recipes for Animals

Terrestrials

WNYC

Education For Kids, Storytelling, Education, Educational, Terrestrials, Pets & Animals, Radiolab, Kids, Kids & Family, Stem, Nature, Podcast, Fun, Science, Family-friendly, Children, Animals

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Solving an ancient mystery.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening?
0:01.6	Okay.
0:02.9	All right.
0:04.1	Okay.
0:05.5	All right.
0:06.6	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.9	Flickin.
0:10.6	Radio Lab.
0:11.0	From W. N. Y.
0:13.7	C.
0:14.5	See?
0:14.9	Yeah.
0:15.5	Three, two, one.
0:23.9	Imagine?
0:25.2	You slither out of the mud of the Nile River.
0:28.8	You grow wings made of soil.
0:31.5	And legs made of bamboo.
0:32.9	And with a sprinkle of lemon, herbs, and an earthly slime, you have become the various ways that people have tried to explain where animals come from.
0:49.8	Now is the part where I make you sing the theme song with me.
0:53.9	Terrestrials, terrestrials, we are not the worst.
0:58.1	We are the bestrials.
1:00.9	You got it.
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