Be Smart
How Baby Sea Turtles Find Their Way Home
Find out how baby sea turtles find their way home after hatching!
Be Smart
Do Animals Mourn Their Dead?
Joe brings in a few friends to look at death in the animal kingdom.
SciShow
How Ancient Pollen Can Predict The Future
We don't need a time machine to learn from the past (but let us know if you find one)! Air bubbles trapped in ice for millennia and ancient pollen grains can tell us a lot about climate shifts hundreds of thousands of years ago!
MinuteEarth
Conservation Triage: Prioritizing Species for Survival
This video highlights the urgent issue of wildlife extinction and proposes a medical triage approach to prioritize species for conservation efforts. It questions the current emphasis on charismatic species like pandas, suggesting that we...
TED Talks
Emma Teeling: The secret of the bat genome
In Western society, bats are often characterized as creepy, even evil. Zoologist Emma Teeling encourages us to rethink common attitudes toward bats, whose unique and fascinating biology gives us insight into our own genetic makeup.
TED Talks
TED: Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it | emma Marris
How do you define "nature?" If we define it as that which is untouched by humans, then we won't have any left, says environmental writer emma Marris. She urges us to consider a new definition of nature -- one that includes not only...
SciShow
Why Fish Care About Forest Fires
We don't think of rivers and lakes as something that are greatly affected by fires, but it turns out these disasters can have a big effect on the acquatic wildlife that calls these places home.
SciShow
What If We Killed All the Mosquitoes?
With the Zika virus in the news, some people have wondered why we don't just kill them ALL.
Be Smart
This Rainforest Caterpillar Looks Like Donald Trump
They have some of the best caterpillars in Peru. The best.
Crash Course
Ecology - Rules for Living on Earth: Crash Course Biology
Hank introduces us to ecology - the study of the rules of engagement for all of us earthlings - which seeks to explain why the world looks and acts the way it does. The world is crammed with things, both animate and not, that have been...
SciShow
Can Feeling the Love Save Lions? | SciShow News
Can you feel the love tonight? Hopefully scientists can make this the case for the growing numbers of lions in animal sanctuaries.
SciShow
Ecosystems Around the Globe Contain Echoes of Past Peoples
There’s a common misconception that humans of the past lived in harmony with their environments and left them “pristine and untouched.” However, there is plenty of evidence that these relationships were much more complicated
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Will the ocean ever run out of fish? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet
When most people think of fishing, we imagine relaxing in a boat and patiently reeling in the day's catch. But modern industrial fishing -- the kind that stocks our grocery shelves -- looks more like warfare. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara - Nizar Ibrahim
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...
TED Talks
Richard Preston: The mysterious lives of giant trees
Science writer Richard Preston talks about some of the most enormous living beings on the planet, the giant trees of the US Pacific Northwest. Growing from a tiny seed, they support vast ecosystems -- and are still, largely, a mystery.
Amoeba Sisters
Bacteria (Updated)
Let the Amoeba Sisters introduce you to bacteria! This video explains bacterial structure, reproduction, and how not all bacteria are "bad!" Video also briefly mentions endospores, plasmids, and bacteria transformation. Table of...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The threat of invasive species - Jennifer Klos
Massive vines that blanket the southern United States, climbing high as they uproot trees and swallow buildings. A ravenous snake that is capable of devouring an alligator. Rabbit populations that eat themselves into starvation. These...
TED Talks
Ashwin Naidu: The link between fishing cats and mangrove forest conservation
Mangrove forests are crucial to the health of the planet, gobbling up CO2 from the atmosphere and providing a home for a diverse array of species. But these rich habitats are under continual threat from deforestation and industry. In an...