SciShow
How Wasps Protect Their Babies With a Virus
Contracting a virus is generally a bad thing, but among certain parasitic wasps, passing a virus to their offspring is actually key to their survival.
MinuteEarth
Does It Pay To Cheat?
For some birds, trying to cheat your neighbors into raising your babies is just as much work - and is no more successful - than doing it yourself.
Be Smart
Could We Clone Ourselves?
Is the science of Orphan Black realistic? Could we clone humans, or engineer them to have customized traits? We take a look at today's genetic engineering technologies to find out if designer babies and human cloning is, or should be, a...
SciShow
A Colorful Quiz Show with Trace Dominguez | SciShow Quiz Show
Two long-time SciComm powerhouses face off to find out if either of them retained any relevant random facts from the many, many videos they’ve each produced.
Amoeba Sisters
Dihybrid and Two-Trait Crosses
This video will show how to set up and solve everyone's favorite 16 square Punnett square.
SciShow
Bringing Back the Lost American Chestnut Tree
American chestnut trees were all over the US at the end of the 19th century until the fungus wiped most of them out. Scientists have been trying to figure out ways to bring those endangered American chestnuts back to their former glory.
SciShow
Why Are Mules Sterile?
Horse plus donkey — it seems like an unlikely combination. I mean, they're different species! And yet, when they get together, they can produce a mule or the lesser-known hinny. Either way, those offspring usually can't become parents...
SciShow
For These 7 Species, Sex Changes Everything
Animals and plants come in an amazing variety of shapes, sizes and colors. And in some species, they take it pretty extreme to deal with the battles within and between sexes.
TED Talks
TED: The birds and the bees are just the beginning | Carin Bondar
Think you know a thing or two about sex? Think again. In this fascinating talk, biologist Carin Bondar lays out the surprising science behind how animals get it on. (This talk describes explicit and aggressive sexual content.)
SciShow
3 Things to Know About Cecil the Lion
Cecil was one of the most thoroughly studied lions in Africa. And thanks to him, we know several reasons why the death of one big cat can be a big deal.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt
Until recently, scientists thought cannibalism was a rare response to starvation or other extreme stress. Well-known cannibals like the praying mantis and black widow were considered bizarre exceptions. But now, we know they more or less...
Amoeba Sisters
Epigenetics
You know all about how DNA bases can code for an organism's traits, but did you know there's more influencing phenotype than just the bases? Explore epigenetics with the Amoeba Sisters by learning about a few types of epigenetic marks...
SciShow
When Three Species Combine Multi-Species Hybrids
Hybrid organisms are rare, and most end up sterile, like mules. But sometimes, three or more species come together to create multi-species hybrids, and they can and have been really useful.
MinuteEarth
MinuteEarth Explains: Battle of the Sexes
In this collection of classic MinuteEarth videos, we take a look at how deep the divide between males and females actually goes.
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Is there a disease that makes us love cats? - Jaap de Roode
Today, about a third of the world's population is infected with a strange disease called toxoplasmosis - and most of them never even know it. And while the parasite can multiply in practically any host, it can only reproduce sexually in...
Amoeba Sisters
Speciation
Explore speciation with The Amoeba Sisters. This video discusses sympatric and allopatric speciation and covers several types of isolation types including behavioral, temporal, and habitat isolations. Table of Contents: Intro 00:00...
Bozeman Science
LS2D - Social Interactions and Group Behavior
In this video Paul Andersen explains the importance of social interactions and group behavior. Organisms live in groups because it overs them greater success and has been selected for through natural selection. Some groups are stable and...
SciShow
What Makes a Species a Species
Sorting organisms into categories seems pretty simple at first, but look a little closer and things get weird.
SciShow
Awesome Animal Dads
Let's talk about some of the awesome single dads out there in the animal kingdom!
Crash Course
Animal Behavior - CrashCourse Biology
Hank and his cat Cameo help teach us about animal behavior and how we can discover why animals do the things they do.
SciShow
Twins x Twins = Twins?
At SciShow, we ask the tough questions. Today we explore the answer to the question "if identical twin brothers married identical twin sisters, would their offspring be identical?"
Crash Course
The Reproductive System: How Gonads Go - CrashCourse Biology
Hank lets us in on the meaning of life, at least from a biological perspective - it's reproduction, which answers the essential question of all organisms: how do I make more of myself? So, sex, how does it work?
SciShow
Why Sex?
Hank gets into why sex is the preferred method of reproduction for most species - and it's not for the reasons you're thinking.
MinuteEarth
Why It’s HARD To Bring A New Apple To Market
Fruit trees are unpredictable and grow slowly, and consumer tastes are fickle, so successful new varieties of fruit are rare