Blue Streak Science Podcast

On This Week’s Show Hoodwinker sunfish washes up on California beach SpaceX launches Ripley to the ISS Second Adult In The World To Be Considered Cleared Of HIV You can’t make it up on the weekend (sleep) Science News with Chris MacAlister and JD Goodwin Hoodwinker sunfish washes up on California beach JD Goodwin But first we’re going to start off with a story that’s a great example of what I love most about doing this podcast. That’s discovering something is not as I thought it was, at having my assumptions turned over. I had always thought there was just one kind of giant sunfish in the ocean, the ocean sunfish, or Mola mola. They look like a giant fish head without the body, and their unlikely fins propel them in an unlikely way. They get huge, like over a metric ton huge. Some even as much as two tons! They eat small fish, crustaceans, and jellyfish. But I always thought it was just one species, until this story came up. Last week, at the unfortunately named Coal Oil Point Reserv