Rewind Ep. 10 - Dragons | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Original Airdate: January 15, 2019
Some small, magical corner of your heart wants dragons to be real, right? Well... sorry. They’re not. But this week, we wanted to celebrate some science adjacent to dragons, from fruit and animals named after them to giant flying predators that probably terrified humans.
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[@sarahmacintosh6449]

Listening while doing a big logic puzzle that eventually ends in a picture. Just finished, and it's a dragonfly. Truly. 😂

[@julescaru8591]

I was afraid this episode was going to drag-on, but I needn’t have worried, very entertaining and diverse, loved it ! All the best Jules

[@dropkickcorpse]

Since this is a Rewind, I'll add the etymology of dragon in Ceri's place. Dragon: plural of drake (Middle English). Inherited from (Old English) draca -->(Proto-West Germanic) *drakō --> Latin dracō -->Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). δράκων (drákōn): "one who stares”.

[@millieb3823]

Thank you!

[@Graelcase]

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[@KOKO-uu7yd]

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[@OverlordMaggie]

Re: Dragonfruit, if anyone sees a yellow dragonfruit they are excellently tasty. Honey, floral, vanilla. Try 'em but they can be hard to find, I find them infrequently here in Ottawa, Canada.

[@SciShowTangents]

i don't think Montana is getting a lot of dragonfruits :(

[@zolacnomiko]

Agreed, yellow dragonfruit far superior in flavor to pink/white dragonfruit

[@michellegummeson4424]

Coins are 3 sided, aren't they ? Absolutely love the SciShow Tangents. Thank you for uploading this !! Had watched all your shows, and loved them all.

[@wearethefruitoftheuniverse]

Would it apply to smooth edge coins

[@JWQweqOPDH]

Not sure about coin tosses, but toin cosses have 3 possible outcomes.

[@LawTaranis]

It took over 14 hours worth of tries, but I got a nickel to land on edge once during lockdown, so yes. Then I found out that my camera stopped recording at 12 hours.

[@paulkinzer7661]

A famous story about Darwin: he loved collecting beetles. One day, he had one in each hand and saw another that he wanted. So he put one from his hand into his mouth, and that's how he personally, discovered the existence of Bombardier beetles (he may not have been the first, but definitely one of the better).

[@AlvarM]

I honestly hope this show and it's sister show and the amazing work you all do never goes underappreciated ❤

[@michaelnewman2343]

Sam “am a furry”

[@SciShowTangents]

don't tell anyone!

[@shadowfox11911]

Canon

[@massimocole9689]

Clearly he has a dragon fursona

[@mariafranceschini7662]

I just started playing D&D, in November 2022, at 40 years old. Love it!! Very time consuming. ...I needed a hobby 🤷🤣

[@shivanis451]

I play DnD and my homebrew character has Night Fury as a weapon. Just felt too good a tangent to not mention it 😅

[@anthonychakty1934]

I have seen these birds in a documentary by David Attenborough starting fires with burning sticks

[@janelwilliams9144]

Whoa, crazy!! I gotta look that up 😉

[@frogz]

Firehawks: Welcome to outback snake house, how would you like to try our viper fries?

[@adamphilip1623]

One thing, afaik the bombardier beetle defence mechanism reaches 100c not 1000.

[@krondys]

Beat me to it.

[@SciShowTangents]

I'll add a card in that part to correct it! Thank you!

[@adamphilip1623]

@@SciShowTangents Blimey that was quick, nice job 👍

[@ecurps1]

Re: Breathing/spitting fire [Reign of Fire] explained "fire breathing" as the wyverns generate two different chemicals that are secreted from the mouth. When combined during exhalation, the temperature spikes and ignites similar to dust fires yet burns like napalm.

[@adamphilip1623]

Really funny episode!

[@RealThugKnight]

First time listening in, which we could all watch and listen in though. Don't know if yall got a cams now, gonna check, but I really hope you guys go for it!!

[@kunik61]

Everyone: oversized winged lizards! SciShow Tangents: fire-breathing birbs! Me: the best magical creatures!

[@jess53nz]

Nz mention! 🇳🇿🇳🇿 Not entirely sure how i feel about the hot legs and turkeys with knives though... Dont think we'd have as many sheep with haast eagles! Bet they'd find them tasty. Always sad no moa in our bush.

[@FSMface]

Love this episode, bummer it's not a new one, though. 😢

[@luanvw0512]

fun fact, because why not, the dragons shown in the animation have no front legs, they are wyverns, they fall in the class of lesser dragons, not true ones

[@AmyEHawthorne]

Love the graphics!

[@rayb4faybrown975]

Love the video and the graphics 🤩

[@CinnahBaer]

10:22 It is a Dragon Fruit, not just a Dragon. Like the egg would be the "fruit of the dragon."

[@CinnahBaer]

Not to be confused with Fruit of the Loom

[@LawTaranis]

Sam being a furry is my new favorite nonfact fact

[@Dee-jp7ek]

Sam, if your fursona isn't a bat I'm going to be disappointed.

[@kappega]

A hermit crab 🦀

[@davegray3049]

So true dragons have four legs in 2 wings wyverns have two legs and two wings the worm has no legs and the lindworm has two arms and then you have the amphiptere which is my personal favorite and it has no legs but two wings and then you also have several species of ground dragon which just have 4 legs

[@clearlyrebecca]

Sooooo this is clearly the drunk episode, right? Like, the vibes feel very tipsy to me. 😂

[@ThatReplyGuy]

This episode barely contains anything about dragons. I know they're fictional, but there is still TONS of hustory, biology, habitat, etc out there about dragons that it would've been trivial to make an entire episode about them. Frankly, this one is more about birds.

[@wearethefruitoftheuniverse]

Fun fact, Dragons, like Thanos, are inevitable

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

ok ok we invent time travel we breed lobed finned fish that have 6 fins we wait for them to colonize land we bring them to the future and Create dragons

[@newshodgepodge6329]

"Hot legs"? I love ya honey. 😘😆