Queen Latifah makes a cameo in this Bill Nye episode on insects. The facts taught are that the queen bee is in charge of a bee colony, ants can dig tunnels, and exoskeletons support, strengthen, and protect the insect's body. While you...

Insects, and other invertebrates outnumber vertebrates—segmented-legs down! The first in a five-part series of videos from an Invertebrates series introduces these organisms in all their spineless glory. Each invertebrate phyla takes the...

Trilobites survived on Earth for longer than mammals have, so what was their secret? From their evolution to diversity, they survived multiple large changes in the environment—and even flourished. Then, in the matter of less than a...

Scientists need help identifying tens of thousands of species of millipedes. The Brain Scoop video, part of an Insects and Invertebrates playlist, discusses the unique features of millipedes. It explains their importance to the...

"You can always out run a spider." - Petra Sierwald, associate curator of insects at the Field Museum. Scientists identified more than 45,000 species of spiders, and an enchanting video explains how they identify each species as unique....

So many animals, so many characteristics—how do we classify them all? A short tour of taxonomy awaits within a helpful Fuse School video on Evolution. Science scholars see how scientists sort animals into the main classes and what traits...

Don't bug out, but around 100 different animals live in your home with you! The video details how they arrived, what they want, and why they are thriving. Most are harmless, but some cause illnesses in ways you might not expect.

Lobsters can regrow limbs, a trick humans can't do; however, according to this video, the placement of the spine and organs on the dorsal and ventral sides of a lobster is similar to the human body plan. The video also includes the...

Introduce your class to the importance of segmentation in evolutionary history with a video that explain how segmentation permitted the development of complex animals. The narrator analyzes examples of annelids and arthropods in...

This webcast relates the research being done to understand the adaptations insects and other arthropods make to survive in various conditions. [29:15]

Learn about a variety of interesting pests like how to be a horrible host, rolly pollies with cocktail sauce and who's afraid of a little vole. [2:46]

Learn about a variety of interesting pest facts like the anatomy of an ant, how to stop a spider from biting and, what makes rat a rat. [2:54]

Water bears, also known as tardigrades, can survive boiling, freezing, the vacuum of space and years of desiccation. Biologist Bob Goldstein, of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, describes water bears and explains why he...

A video exploring arthropods which were the first animals to venture onto land and spread over the earth. Their body plan allowed them to diversify and adapt to every environment, including the air, inventing new ways to extract oxygen...

Did you know an arthropods' exoskeleton must be shed or molted when they grow. This sequence shows how a blue crab must pull its legs and body out of the old shell. [2:24]

A video that shows how a dragonfly larva hunts a newt. See how a dragonfly larva stalks prey underwater and catches a newt. [2:06]

See a dragonfly's metamorphosis with this video. Watch a dragonfly larva transform into a winged adult. [2:46]

Learn about how horseshoe crabs mate in the water but lay their eggs in sand. This video shows you how the crab allow their young develop safe from marine predators. [1:23]

Follow Bill Shear as he investigates how arthropods made the transition to living on land by looking at microfossils preserved along with fossil plants. In this video watch as he extracts tiny fossils by dissolving the rock that they are...

The blades of the Swiss army knife become the claws, legs, antennae and wings that arthropods evolved to survive on land. [0:52]

Robert Full is interested in the biomechanics of arthropod movement. Arthropods move low to the ground using their legs in a tripod fashion, which is inherently stable. Their skeleton provides local control over movement. But the secret...