Instructional Video12:22
SciShow

5 Dinosaur Dinners and What They Told Us

12th - Higher Ed
"When it comes to extinct creatures like dinosaurs, it can be tough to know for sure what they actually ate. And we’d like to know because what an animal eats tells you a lot about it. But every now and then, the fossil record gives us a...
Instructional Video10:16
Be Smart

The Dinosaur On Your Thanksgiving Table

12th - Higher Ed
Eating turkey this holiday season? Chowing down on a roast chicken? You're eating a dinosaur! Entertain your family and friends with a little science lesson this year, and show them why bird bones tell us that birds are actually living...
Instructional Video15:05
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: Hank vs. Stefan

12th - Higher Ed
Associate Producer Stefan Chin faces off against his boss, Hank Green. Will Stefan manage to keep his job? What does a dinosaur sound like? And where is that space whale?
Instructional Video18:16
TED Talks

Playtime with Pleo, your robotic dinosaur friend - Caleb Chung

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. Pleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet -- exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor and...
Instructional Video10:38
SciShow

These Extinct Birds Really Stretch the Definition of “Bird”

12th - Higher Ed
From birds with no wings to giant fowl that were once mistaken for predators, here are 6 birds that who's strange features may not be what you think of when you think of birds!
Instructional Video3:20
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How did feathers evolve? - Carl Zimmer

Pre-K - Higher Ed
To look at the evolution of modern bird feathers, we must start a long time ago, with the dinosaurs from whence they came. We see early incarnations of feathers on dinosaur fossils, and remnants of dinosaurs in a bird's wish bone. Carl...
Instructional Video2:16
SciShow

What Did Dinosaurs Taste Like?

12th - Higher Ed
Have you ever wondered what dinosaur meat might have tasted like? Chances are you've eaten dinosaur more recently than you might expect.
Instructional Video10:32
Bozeman Science

Thinking in Matter - Level 4 - Conservation of Matter

12th - Higher Ed
In this video Paul Andersen shows conceptual thinking in a mini-lesson on the conservation of matter. TERMS Matter - physical substances Atoms - the basic unit of elements Conservation - the quantity of a physical quantity remains...
Instructional Video4:23
SciShow

The Dress: Now with Peer-Reviewed Science!

12th - Higher Ed
Researchers have an idea about how your lifestyle affects the way you see the dress, and we've identified a new ancestor to the dinosaurs!
Instructional Video10:04
SciShow

Resurrection Biology: How to Bring Animals Back From Extinction

12th - Higher Ed
We've all seen the movies and heard the hype: But is it really possible to bring back animals that have gone extinct? If so, how? And how soon? And can I have a mammoth to ride around in my backyard? Hank explains the latest research...
Instructional Video6:30
Be Smart

Are Dinosaurs Extinct?

12th - Higher Ed
Most people are taught that dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago when a giant meteor crashed into the Yucatan peninsula. I'm here to tell you that's wrong. Dinosaurs are alive and well today, and you don't have to go to Jurassic...
Instructional Video7:40
PBS

How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms

12th - Higher Ed
Tyrannosaurus rex was big, Tyrannosaurus rex was vicious, and Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms. The story of how T-Rex lost its arms is, itself, pretty simple. But the story of why it kept those little limbs, and how it used them? Well,...
Instructional Video5:10
SciShow

How to Find Out Why T. rex Arms Were… Like That | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week, a new theory as to why the mighty and fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex has such cute little arms. And in more fossil news, recently discovered giant ichthyosaur bones present a different picture of the Triassic.
Instructional Video4:49
SciShow

The Mystery of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Death Trap

12th - Higher Ed
Paleontologists think they've solved part of the mystery of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, a dense bed of Jurassic dinosaur fossils. Also, electron microscope images reveal new, mucus-drenched info about the tubelip wrasse.
Instructional Video3:57
SciShow

An Update on Boaty McBoatface!

12th - Higher Ed
It turns out the name Boaty McBoatface didn't go to waste, and the submersible now bearing the name has returned from its first mission! Also, the diversity of frogs we see today may have arisen more recently than we previously thought!
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

3 Discoveries You Missed Because of COVID

12th - Higher Ed
There have been a lot of scientific discoveries around COVID, but other science stories did happen in 2020 — including amazing discoveries about everything from dinosaurs to parasites.
Instructional Video3:50
SciShow Kids

Get to Know a Dinosaur!

K - 5th
Do you have any questions about dinosaurs, or anything else about nature, or outer space, or machines?
Instructional Video22:34
SciShow

SciShow Talk Show: Jack Horner Meets a Dinosaur

12th - Higher Ed
Jack Horner and Hank talk about the evolution of dinosaurs, what it took to become a world-famous paleontologist, genetics, and meet a live dinosaur courtesy of Jessi Knudsen Castañeda.
Instructional Video10:58
TED Talks

TED: What the discovery of gravitational waves means | Allan Adams

12th - Higher Ed
More than a billion years ago, two black holes in a distant galaxy locked into a spiral, falling inexorably toward each other, and collided. "All that energy was pumped into the fabric of time and space itself," says theoretical...
Instructional Video10:49
TED Talks

TED: Art made of the air we breathe | emily Parsons-Lord

12th - Higher Ed
emily Parsons-Lord re-creates air from distinct moments in earth's history -- from the clean, fresh-tasting air of the Carboniferous period to the soda-water air of the Great Dying to the heavy, toxic air of the future we're creating. By...
Instructional Video4:32
SciShow

Dinosaurs Had a Bloodsucking Enemy

12th - Higher Ed
This week, scientists revealed a sample of amber containing an extinct tick that fed on dinosaurs. Unfortunately, we can't take a blood sample from it and make Jurassic Park a reality, but it can still tell us a lot about how dinosaurs...
Instructional Video4:19
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara - Nizar Ibrahim

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In Cretaceous times (around 100 million years ago), North Africa was home to a huge river system and a bizarre menagerie of giant prehistoric predators -- including the Spinosaurus, a dinosaur even more fearsome than the Tyrannosaurus...
Instructional Video15:49
TED Talks

TED: Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe | Kenneth Lacovara

12th - Higher Ed
What happens when you discover a dinosaur? Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara details his unearthing of Dreadnoughtus -- a 77-million-year-old sauropod that was as tall as a two-story house and as heavy as a jumbo jet -- and considers how...
Instructional Video5:07
SciShow

The First Results on the Interstellar Asteroid!

12th - Higher Ed
Our asteroid news edition this week clears up some misleading headlines regarding 3200 Phaethon, and our interstellar visitor has both a new name and a shape we haven’t seen before.