The Podcast Aquatic
The official podcast of the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Gain new insights into the animals — even the human kind — living and working in one of the world's largest freshwater-focused aquariums!
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A Six-Story Celebration (opens the original)
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In 1996, the Tennessee Aquarium opened the first major expansion to its campus on Chattanooga's downtown riverfront. This new building showcased every kind of sea life imaginable, not to mention every conceivable biome on the planet. It also introduced guests to dinosaurs and interstellar phenomenon and — much later — wizards, superheroes and one exceptionally embattled Greek king just trying to get home. This year, the Tennessee Aquarium IMAX 3D Theater celebrates its 30th anniversary. It has d
How the Heckin' HECK Do You Find Endangered Fish? (opens the original)
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By their very nature, endangered animals are a difficult target for scientists to research. They tend to be few in number — naturally — and the populations that exist have sometimes survived purely through remaining isolated from their top threat, which all too often is us. To those outside the field of academia, the assumption might be that science takes place in the kinds of locales that appear on the pages of National Geographic — pristine forests, wind-swept deserts and coral reefs. In reali
Season 2 Finale: A Jolly Good Fellowship (opens the original)
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Being selected for an internship or fellowship is a career milestone for many students and recent graduates, but it can also be a bit of a double-edged sword. Ideally, these programs are a chance to battle test skills honed in academia in a real-world setting. They're opportunities to build out a portfolio, to network and to determine whether your education adequately prepared you for your desired role. In reality, for many interns and fellows, these programs ultimately end up being little more
Grand Moth Talkin' (opens the original)
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Despite outnumbering them (in species diversity) by a factor of almost ten to one, moths are the quintessential under-appreciated insect. To most people, they're an almost-spooky nocturnal curiosity at best and a wardrobe-endangering pest at worst. In reality, moths are hugely important, helping to pollinate plants during the night-time shift when butterflies have called it quits for the day. They're also more ancient than butterflies, not to mention faster and more efficient and, often, hardier
A Quick Drop-in with Oscar the Sea Turtle (opens the original)
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In the Aquarium gift shop years ago, there was once a sea turtle stuffed animal for sale that looked a little ... different. He didn't have all of his flippers, and his shell was missing a notch. This wasn't a manufacturing error, though; it was an homage to one of our most-beloved residents, Oscar. Thanks to an early life run-in with an oceanic predator and a boat, Oscar has never looked like a "normal" sea turtle. Yet despite the difficulty of swimming and diving with his injuries, Oscar manag
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