TED Talks
Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking...
SciShow
Can YOU estimate this dino’s diet? | Tangents Clip #shorts #SciShow #SciShowTangents
Can YOU estimate this dino’s diet? | Tangents Clip #shorts #SciShow #SciShowTangents
SciShow Kids
Dig In To Paleontology
Would you like to spend all day thinking about dinosaurs? Well, some scientists do! Find out all about what it means to be a paleontologist!
SciShow
5 Unsolved Mysteries About Dinosaurs
We can learn a lot from dinosaur fossils, but figuring how they behaved is a real challenge.
SciShow
Why Are Cheetahs the Fastest Land Animal?
Cheetahs are fast. You know this. But which is faster: a cheetah, or a Tyrannosaurus rex?
SciShow
Blue Whales and The Smartphone Morality Experiment
Hank shares news about the biggest animal in the history of ever -- blue whales -- and explains the lessons learned in a new study of human morality, using smartphones.
SciShow Kids
It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a DINOSAUR!
Dino's back to share more dinosaur facts with you, and this time he has some incredible news: birds are the descendants of dinosaurs! Join him to learn the whole story!
MinuteEarth
What Makes A Dinosaur?
Due to a revolution in our understanding of the tree of life, birds are dinosaurs, while dimetrodons are not. ___________________________________________ FYI: We try to leave jargon out of our videos, but if you want to learn more about...
SciShow
How Birds Got (And Kept) Their Beaks
Birds are known for having beaks, however at what point between being a humongous therapod and tiny sparrow did they get them, and why?
Crash Course
Evolution: It's a Thing - Crash Course Biology
Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization.
SciShow
Supersonic Free Fall and the New Element: Hankium?
Hank brings you the news of a newly discovered dinosaur he is kind of afraid to look at, a way to sequence your genome in less time than it takes to get your clothes dry cleaned, & two new adventures that will take place in space - one...
PBS
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
Part of why we're so fascinated with extinct dinosaurs it's just hard for us to believe that animals that huge actually existed. And yet, they existed! From the Jurassic to the Cretaceous Periods, creatures as tall as a five-story...
PBS
An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs
Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just how much we have learned. Let's explore the history of...
Be Smart
De-Extinction: A Mammoth Undertaking
De-extinction, or using the power of modern biotechnology to bring back extinct species like mammoths and dinosaurs, would be cool. But is it really as easy as the movies make it look? Or do the cruel hands of time make it impossible?...
Curated Video
The Age of Dinosaurs: A Journey into the Mesozoic Era
This video provides a fascinating overview of dinosaurs, their reign on Earth for 165 million years, their diverse sizes and species, and their eventual extinction due to a combination of a meteorite impact and volcanic eruptions. It...
Curated Video
Robot Technology at Japan's Aichi World Expo
The video showcases the advanced robot technology featured at Japan's Aichi World Expo. From friendly receptionists and interactive guides to realistic dinosaur replicas and a robot marching band, these robots demonstrate the...
Science ABC
Are Birds Reptiles?
According to phylogenetic classification, a "reptile" is any organism descended from the original group of reptiles, which includes birds. Thus, birds are reptiles by this method of classification, much like everything that descended...
Curated Video
Big Al
How scientists pieced together the life and death of an Allosaurus called "Big Al" by studying his bones. Biology - Adaptation And Evolution - Learning Points. Big Al is one of the most complete dinosaur skeletons ever discovered. His...
Curated Video
What Causes Extinction?
A look at the main causes of extinction from new diseases to climate change to competition from another species. Biology - Adaptation And Evolution - Learning Points. Extinction is a natural part of the evolutionary cycle. It occurs more...
Curated Video
Fossil detectives
Play detective and find out which ancient creature created a fossil footprint. Our universe - Story of life - Fossils Learning Points Everything we have learned about early life forms, including dinosaurs, we have learned from fossils...
Curated Video
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago and they came in lots of shapes and sizes. Our universe - Story of life - Dinosaurs Learning Points The dinosaurs were a group of reptiles that lived on Earth a long, long, long time ago. There were...
Curated Video
Fossils - Ancient Remains
Fossils are the remnants of ancient creatures. Our universe - Story of life - Fossils Learning Points Fossils are the remains of things that lived a long, long time ago. Fossils are made over millions of years by layers of mud pressing...
Curated Video
Dinosaur extinction
Why did dinosaurs become extinct? Our universe - Story of life - Dinosaurs Learning Points All the dinosaurs are dead. We say that they are 'extinct'. Scientists think that an asteroid may have caused the dinosaur extinction. A Twig...
Curated Video
Rocks – Clip
Find out how the fossils found in 124-million-year-old sedimentary rocks are revealing new information about evolution. Material processes - Classifying materials - Rocks A Twig Tidbit Film - Clip. A short film that extends the learning...