Press Association
Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton begins to be pieced together in Glasgow
A 39ft-long Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton which weighs the same as four Mini Cooper cars is being pieced together in Glasgow on the latest stop of its European tour. Trix the T-rex is being housed in a bespoke, climate-controlled 600 square...
Curated Video
Serbia- Srebrenica massacre survivors held in jail
WTN journalists have visited a prison in Serbia which the United Nations has alleged is secretly holding some 40 to 50 survivors of the Srebrenica massacre. In a private interview the governour of the prison told WTN that there were no...
Curated Video
The Field Museum in Chicago uses a little free labor to help clean carcasses for their mammal display - millions of meat-eating bugs.
HEADLINE: Museum full of creepy-crawlies hard at work
CAPTION: The Field Museum in Chicago uses a little free labor to help clean carcasses for their mammal display - millions of meat-eating bugs. (Dec. 21)
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Bloomberg
Deutsche Bank's Role in Mueller's Trump-Russia Probe
Jul.21 -- In today's "Morning Must Read," Bloomberg’s Tom Keene and Francine Lacqua highlight comments from Bloomberg View columnist Timothy L. O'Brien on President Donald Trump's business dealings. They speak with Bloomberg's Kevin...
American Museum of Natural History
Living Large
Get to know all about sauropods from a paleontologist, Jonah. Following an introductory video, scholars choose from five fossils to learn more about. Each fossil begins with a video, provides information from several different...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stickleback Film with Quiz: Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies
The pelvic bone's connected to the...nothing in the stickleback fish, because it doesn't have one. Young biologists watch a video about the evolution of the stickleback fish living in Alaskan lakes. It turns out that they lost their...
The Brain Scoop
Chicago Adventure, Part Four: Rodents of Unusual Size (And Other Mammals, Too)
The Chicago Field Museum is home to some amazingly large creatures! The installment from a larger mammals playlist takes young biologists on a tour of the mammal curation labs. Experts explain the specimen collection in terms of their...
The Brain Scoop
Chicago Adventure, Part Three: Little Skeletons
How do museums keep up with all of the tiny creatures they collect? Go behind the scenes through a video from a larger playlist covering mammals. The narrator shows how skeletal parts are numbered, then examines the museum's collection...
The Brain Scoop
The First Brachiosaurus
How do scientists know when they've discovered something new? Travel back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the earth using an interesting video, which is part of Brain Scoop's Fossils and Geology playlist. The narrator examines the...
The Brain Scoop
Siats Meekerorum
Scientists find and name 30-40 new dinosaurs every year. A timely video discusses the siats meekerorum, one relatively newly discovered dinosaur. It explains the pieces scientists found and how they use those to better understand the...
TED-Ed
What Can You Learn From Ancient Skeletons?
Skeletons may not be able to speak, but they can still tell us a lot. High schoolers watch a short video about the ways biological anthropologists can use a skeleton's bone structure to determine age, gender, place of birth, and social...
Engenius Films
Biomechanical Modeling
What does modeling have to do with bones? A video introduces us to Dr. Prinold, a biomechanical engineer. Dr. Prinold is working at modeling the forces incurred on a child's ankle. The idea is that the model will help doctors understand...
Curated OER
The Skeletal System
Discover the importance of your skeleton. Its different purposes are described and the various types of bones are shown. The animation in this clip clearly introduces the human skeletal system and its parts. A great resource for your...
Curated OER
The Human Skeleton
Sculpture animation is used to build the skeletal system. Beginning with a single vertebra, more and more of the skeleton is added on while the animation spins and music plays. Show your anatomy class this animation and have them name...