Amoeba Sisters
Animals: Tour of 9 Phyla
Join the Amoeba Sisters in exploring some general animal characteristics, major vocabulary used in classifying animals (such as symmetry, protostome vs deuterostome, cephalization, and coelom), and take a general tour of 9 major animal...
SciShow
Hilde Mangold and the Organizer of Life | Great Minds
Experiments conducted by Hilde Mangold and Hans Spemann taught us how an animal develops from a small ball of cells into an organism with distinct, functioning parts. The work was a foundational contribution to the field of developmental...
SciShow
An Ode to Salps: Our Gelatinous Marine Cousins
Salps are more than just strange balls of goo drifting through the sea—in fact, they’re more closely related to us than they are to jellyfish, and play a huge role in marine ecosystems and the global carbon cycle as the “vacuum cleaners...
Crash Course
Chordates - CrashCourse Biology
Hank introduces us to ourselves by taking us on a journey through the fascinatingly diverse phyla known as chordata. And the next time someone asks you who you are, you can give them the facts: you're a mammalian amniotic tetrapodal...
Curated Video
Chordate
Animals that at least at some stage in their development possess a stiff, rod-like structure running along their back, called a notochord. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning...
Ancient Lights Media
Biological Classification - The Chordata
Biological Classification Set: This clip introduces the phylum of Chordata and the three subphyla of animals of which it is composed
Ancient Lights Media
Biological Classification - The Eight Classes of the Subphylum Vertebrata
Biological Classification Set: This clip introduces the eight classes of animals that make up the subphylum vertebrata.