Briefing Chat: Orcas smashed a sunfish to bits — researchers aren't sure why
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Briefing Chat: Orcas smashed a sunfish to bits — researchers aren't sure why

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In this episode: 00:24 The quest to count the Amazon's insects 07:31 The orcas that exploded a sunfish The Guardian: Orcas seen ramming prey so hard it explodes may be playing game Tiktok: Orcas vs sunfish Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hi listeners, Benjamin here. Welcome to the Friday edition of the podcast where we talk about some of the stories we've read about in the Nature Briefing, which is of course Nature's daily email roundup of the latest science news. And joining me this time is Nick Petrich-Hound. Nick, how are you doing? I'm doing well, Ben. How's it going for you? It's going A-OK, thank you very much.

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A couple of stories today. Why don't I go first? And there's kind of a through line, Nick, into the story that i covered on the wednesday show we're heading back to the amazon for some newly discovered things things that are new to science but in this case it's not archaeological remains it's insects and this is a story i read about in nature based on a presentation at the brazilian society for the

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advancement of sciences annual meeting so this is still preliminary data but some of the numbers involved are quite something i imagine so i mean many people will be aware of the fact that many insects are not known to science and there's a lot of them and they're all quite small so it's hard to get sort of an assessment of them but i'm guessing that they've tried to do that in the

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