Episode 493: NEW The Mystery of Esconichthys and Friends

Episode 493: NEW The Mystery of Esconichthys and Friends

From Strange Animals Podcast by Katherine Shaw

July 13, 2026 · 16 min

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This episode discusses the mystery of Esconichthys and includes announcements about upcoming projects.

Yes, this is a NEW episode! Thanks to Eesa, Grace, and Viki for their suggestions this week. (Actual episode starts at 3 minutes 28 seconds.) Find the Backerkit campaign here ! Further reading: Nix Illlustration: Esconichthys The southern hognose snake [picture by Caudatejake – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0]: A beach wolf spider [photo by Memer15151 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0]: Oviraptor may have looked kind of like this when alive [art by PaleoNeolitic – Own work, CC BY 4.0]: Two halves of an esconichthys fossil: Show transcript: Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw. Oh, hi! This is a brand new episode, earlier than I expected! I noticed recently that one of the Patreon episodes I’d scheduled for September is one that I’d already run in the main feed a few years ago. I decided to just make a new episode for this week and move the episode that would have run this week to that September slot, because I have an announcement! For our five-year anniversary I published the book Beyond Bigfoot & Nessie: Lesser-Known Mystery Animals from Around the World , with a lot of the entries taken from episodes but also some new topics added. I always intended…

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Books & works: Beyond Bigfoot & Nessie: Lesser-Known Mystery Animals from Around the World, Small Mysteries

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