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What Happened To The Other Mesozoic Mammals?
New ReviewIn 2003, a fossil belonging to a mammaliaform was discovered in an ancient lakebed in what's now China. It was an almost complete skeleton the size of a platypus, a find that complicated the history of mammaliaforms. It painted a picture...
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The Dinosaurs That Evolution Forgot
New ReviewWhere are all the east coast dinosaurs? Why don’t we find famous species like Triceratops in Central Park? Turns out, evolution and geology came together to make the east coast into an ancient lost world of weird dinosaurs.
PBS
When the Amazon Flowed Backwards
New ReviewWhat did life look like when the Amazon watershed flowed backwards? How did its direction shape the evolution of life around it? And what force could have possibly been strong enough to up-end one of the world’s mightiest rivers between...
PBS
The Mystery of the Cretaceous Pompeii
New ReviewSince the 1990s, paleontologists have been pulling 125-million-year-old complete dinosaur skeletons from the rocks of the Lujiatun in Northeastern China, most seemingly posed in perfect rest. This has prompted comparisons to a famous...
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How Mountains Make Evolution Weird
New ReviewMountains have a unique effect on diversity, messing with our understanding of animals through time, and pretty much just making evolution weird. And they would eventually reveal something even stranger about a group of mammals even...
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When Red Pandas Roamed North America
New ReviewHow did a relative of the red panda end up in North America? What can this tell us about how long ago – and how many times – North America was connected to Europe and Asia?
SciShow
A Lost Human Ancestor Is Probably Under This Parking Lot
It's really rare to find fossils, which means that when they're lost again after someone dug them up, it really hurts. These are a few of the most famous fossils that went missing after someone found them, and what researchers can still...
SciShow
Six-Foot Long Millipedes?! And Other Fossil Giants
Six-foot millipedes? The biggest apes ever? And a kangaroo too big to hop? These are just a few of the biggest animals of their kinds to ever exist, and they're not just big, they're WEIRD. So let's talk about why Gigantopithecus went...
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A Quarter Of All Your Bones Are In Your Feet
You might have heard that a quarter of your skeleton is in your shoes, and that's true, as long as they're closed-toe. So why do we need that many foot bones? The answer is more complicated than you think, and to get to the bottom of it...
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We Can't Find the Most Important Fossils Ever
About 360-ish million years ago, some tetrapods moved onto land and changed the course of history. So we'd love to know more about these guys, and what it took to get there. But the thing is, the fossils we need to understand this...
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These Are The Coolest Fossils From 2024
From a fancy-frilled ceratopsian to a possible new biggest snake ever and something called a giga goose, there were some pretty amazing giant fossils announced in 2024. Plus, Kallie from our sister channel Eons reminds us to give some...
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We've Been Collecting This Fossil for 15,000 Years
Trilobites are one of the most iconic fossil animals out there. And people have loved them for centuries! Let's talk about the people across time and space who have loved collecting trilobites, from Elrathia to Calymene, going back...
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That Time Our Ancestors Almost Went Extinct
There's a lot of humans on our planet. But our global domination was hardly a given. New evidence suggests that our ancestors were on the brink of total extinction nearly a million years ago. So let's talk about that time when the Homo...
SciShow
How Snakes Hijacked Our Brains
Sometimes, one animal ends up in an evolutionary arms race with another for millions of years. Here are four fascinating examples, including our own showdown with snakes. Hosted by: Jaida Elcock (she/her)
SciShow
Permafrost Is Not What You Think It Is
If you've ever heard about things like mammoths being found in permafrost, you may have an image in your head of what that looks like. But you might be wrong! So let's talk about what permafrost really is, why it's so important, and why...
Amoeba Sisters
Evolution
Explore the concept of biological evolution with the Amoeba Sisters! This video mentions a few misconceptions about biological evolution before providing a general definition. Then this video provides a description of four different...
MinuteEarth
How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been?
Want to learn more about the topic in this week's video? Here are some keywords/phrases to get your googling started: - Mass Extinction Event: a significant, global decrease in the diversity of life - "Big 5": The five biggest mass...
SciShow Kids
Say Hello to Saber-toothed Smilodon! | SciShow Kids
Smilodon the saber-toothed cat had really big teeth! Join Jessi and Squeaks and learn all about how fossils can tell us how these Ice Age animals lived.
SciShow Kids
The Ancient Animal Crossing | SciShow Kids
Join Squeaks and Jessi as they learn about a time when lots of animals switched places -- like bears, sloths, armadillos, and more.
SciShow Kids
Tails and Tusks and Teeth, Oh My! | SciShow Kids Compilation
Come with Jessi and Squeaks as they explore some of the animals that roamed the Earth during the ice age. And a lot of these animals had giant features, like teeth the size of bananas or mouths shaped like a shovel!
SciShow Kids
The Very Big Story of the Dinosaurs | SciShow Kids Compilation
In this SciShow Kids compilation, Jessi and Squeaks learn all about dinosaurs—when they lived, how they died, and how we know so much about them.
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How Do We Figure Out The Sex ... Of A Fossil?
We know a lot about fossils, but there's one thing about all those long-dead organisms that's hard to figure out -- their sex. So let's talk about the ways we can try to determine whether those T. rex bones came from a male or a female,...
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The Tiny T. rex Causing a Big Science Feud
You’ve heard of Tyrannosaurus rex, but did you know they might have a mini-cousin called Nanotyrannus? And that “might” is serious, because researchers have been arguing about it for nearly 40 years and still haven’t gotten to the bottom...
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How Lava Turned a Rhino Into a Cave
We know that fossils are fragile, and volcanoes are destructive. So you wouldn't think that volcanoes are really any help when preserving fossils... but you'd be wrong! From the Laetoli Footprints to the Blue Lake Rhino, here are five...