Magic Mushroom Medicine, Neptune’s Aurora Confirmed, And First-Ever Shark Sounds

This week on Break It Down: a new study has become the first to document what sound a shark makes, Neptune has been confirmed to have an aurora thanks to the best telescope ever, a pipeline construction site turned up the terrifying claw of a new species of therizinosaur, why people are trying to prevent measles with Vitamin A (and why it won’t work), 400-million-year-old fossils may belong to a new branch on the tree of life, and the growing role of psilocybin in new medications inspired by magic mushrooms.

So, sit back, relax, and let’s Break It Down…

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Shark sounds

Hear a coral reef

Sharks existed before Saturn’s rings

Neptune’s aurora

New therizinosaur

Measles and Vitamin A

Supplements and liver injury

New branch of life?

Magic mushroom medicine

We Have Questions – How do you rediscover a “lost species”?

Videos galore

Melanistic penguin

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