What does a volcano, a thousand-year-old tree, ancient squirrel droppings, and a deep-sea ghost have in common? They're all weirder than anything you'd make up. In this debut episode of Gotta Be Kidding Me, host Tammy Coron digs into four stories that prove the natural world has absolutely no obligation to make sense. And we're here for all of it!

We cover the Antarctic volcano that's been scattering gold dust across the ice every single day since 1972 (and why no one's getting rich off it), the legendary Major Oak of Sherwood Forest that survived a millennium of history only to be felled by too much human "help," the Ice Age ground squirrels whose frozen droppings turned out to be a richer genetic archive than bone, and the goblin shark, a 125-million-year-old living fossil that finally let itself be filmed alive for the very first time.

Science, history, paleogenomics, volcanology, deep-sea discovery — all delivered in about five minutes with no jargon and zero apologies.

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