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What the Crater that Impacted the Dinosaurs Taught Us About Mars
We've been trying to understand Mars for years, but some scientists think that ancient craters on earth might hold some answers to our red neighbor's history.
SciShow Kids
What Happened to the Dinosaurs?
Jessi and Squeaks love science mysteries, and today they've teamed up with their friend, Dino, to try and solve one of the biggest mysteries of all: what happened to the dinosaurs?
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A Brief History of Life on Earth: The Full Series
From the Archean Eon to the Holocene Epoch, check out this SciShow mini-series for a primer about life on earth.
TED Talks
Nizar Ibrahim: How we unearthed the Spinosaurus
A 50-foot-long carnivore who hunted its prey in rivers 97 million years ago, the Spinosaurus is a "dragon from deep time." Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim and his crew found new fossils, hidden in cliffs of the Moroccan Sahara desert, that...
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Mass Extinctions
Hank takes us on a trip through time to revisit the 5 major mass extinction events that have impacted species over the Earth's history, and leaves us with some thoughts about what could possibly be the sixth event - the one caused by...
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We Know Exactly When Dinosaurs Went Extinct
During the age of dinosaurs, a massive asteroid slammed into the Earth, bringing an end to most life at the time. And thanks to new fossil evidence, we've been able to pinpoint a time of year for this event that happened millions of...
TED Talks
Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids
What's six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid -- and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait shows us all the ways asteroids can kill us (yipes), and what we must do to avoid...
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Did Dinosaurs Really Have Feathers?
At least one entire class of dinosaurs seems to have had feathers, including velociraptors, and probably T. rex. Find out how we know, and how we even know what color some of them were!
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Two New Sauropods Generate Excitement and Controversy | SciShow News
One new fossil discovery helps shed some light on early titanosaur evolution, while another leads to some controversial claims about dicraeosaurs.
TED Talks
Jack Horner: Where are the baby dinosaurs?
In a spellbinding talk, paleontologist Jack Horner tells the story of how iconoclastic thinking revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs.
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Why No Giant Mammals?
Hank gives a quick run-down of the reasons scientists think the land mammals of today are nowhere near the size of the largest sauropods. Some of them might surprise you!
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5 Animals That Aren't Dinosaurs
If you get most of your information about ancient animals from vintage cartoons or action figures, then a lot of things that you think of as "dinosaurs" actually weren't. Learn about the definition of true dinosaurs and the evolutionary...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: When will the next mass extinction occur? - Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard
About 66 million years ago, a terrible extinction event wiped out the dinosaurs. But it wasn't the only event of this kind -- extinctions of various severity have occurred throughout the Earth's history -- and are still happening all...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The most notorious scientific feud in history | Lukas Rieppel
After the California Gold Rush of 1848, settlers streamed west to strike it rich. In addition to precious metals, they unearthed another treasure: dinosaur bones. Two wealthy scientists in particular— Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward...
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Paleontology's Technicolor Moment
For a long time, we could only guess what color a dinosaur might be. But in the past decade, there has been an explosion of color.
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Dinosaurs Probably Weren't Cold-Blooded, According to Eggshells
Scientists can find answers in some pretty unusual places, and recently they found some evidence that dinosaurs weren't cold-blooded by looking at... eggshells?
TED Talks
Paul Sereno: Digging up dinosaurs
Strange landscapes, scorching heat and (sometimes) mad crocodiles await scientists seeking clues to evolution's genius. Paleontologist Paul Sereno talks about his surprising encounters with prehistory -- and a new way to help students...
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5 Mysteries Science Created... and Then Solved
Asking questions almost always leads to finding answers, but those answers will often pose even more questions. Here are five mysteries started and later solved by science.
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The Siberian Traps: A 250 Million Year Old Crime Scene
The event that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago might be the most famous mass extinction ever, but it's not the only one in Earth’s history, nor is it the worst... not by a long shot.
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IDTIMWYTIM Bird or Dinosaur
Hank fixes those of us who are probably wrong about what is and is not a dinosaur... and gives a refresher to those of us who do know this already.
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The Biggest Sloth That Ever Lived, and 6 Other Gigantic Animals
Sometimes it seems like the past favored large animals, but it turns out that each one on this list has a different reason for its size. Chapters View all Carboniferous & Permian periods 360 251 million years ago 1:04 DRAGONFLY Credit:...
Crash Course
The Evolutionary Epic: Crash Course Big History
In which John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie teach you about evolution. So, in the last 3.8 billion years, life on Earth has evolved from single-celled prokaryotes to the dizzying array of life we have today. So how did all this...
SciShow Kids
Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter | Science for Kids
Everybody loves dinosaurs, and we wouldn't know nearly as much as we do if it weren't for a person named Mary Anning.
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A Brief History of Life: Dinosaur Time!
The Great Dying hit life hard, but the species that survived took over the planet and diversified into many interesting forms, including the dinosaurs!