SciShow
3 Reasons Animals Puke Their Guts Out (Literally)
For most of us, the term "puke your guts out" isn't meant to taken literally. But for these animals, it's kind of useful.
SciShow
7 of the Most Uniquely Fierce Sharks
Sharks come in a lot of different shapes and sizes and many of them don't look like the ones you see in movies. Here are seven sharks that went down some decidedly strange evolutionary paths.
SciShow
Is SHARKNADO Possible
Well? Is it? No. But that doesn't mean that this ... bizarre ... attempt at cinema doesn't raise some interesting questions. Questions that we will explore in this episode of SciShow. Hold on to your buckets!
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The most groundbreaking scientist you've never heard of - Addison Anderson
Seventeenth-century Danish geologist Nicolas Steno earned his chops at a young age, studying cadavers and drawing anatomic connections between species. Steno made outsized contributions to the field of geology, influencing Charles Lyell,...
SciShow
10 Strange-Looking Prehistoric Animals
Take a close look at some of the strangest-looking animals evolution has created.
SciShow Kids
Weird Animal Teeth
Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn about a few animals with extreme teeth!
Crash Course
Evaluating Photos & Videos: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #7
With the amount of fake and doctored photos and videos out there, how can we know what to trust? Most of us are used to thinking that "seeing is believing" but as technology makes it easier and easier to spread unreliable content online...
MinuteEarth
You Are A Fish
With our current understanding of evolutionary history and our strategy of cladistic naming, if we wanted to have both goldfish and sharks under a single group called "fish", then mammals must also be called fish....
TED Talks
TED: The ocean's glory -- and horror | Brian Skerry
Photographer Brian Skerry shoots life above and below the waves -- as he puts it, both the horror and the magic of the ocean. Sharing amazing, intimate shots of undersea creatures, he shows how powerful images can help make change.
SciShow
The Biggest Sloth That Ever Lived, and 6 Other Gigantic Animals
Sometimes it seems like the past favored large animals, but it turns out that each one on this list has a different reason for its size. Chapters View all Carboniferous & Permian periods 360 251 million years ago 1:04 DRAGONFLY Credit:...
SciShow
How To Fly More Fuel-Efficiently
Airplanes use a lot of fuel, which means a lot of CO2 emissions. So, to help reduce the impact of aviation, engineers are looking to animals (like sharks) for some ways they can make airliners more efficient.
TED-Ed
Meet the bluefin tuna, the toughest fish in the sea | Grantly Galland and Raiana McKinney
What's as big as a polar bear, swallows its prey whole, and swims at forty miles an hour? It's not a shark or a killer whale... it's the Atlantic bluefin tuna— the largest and longest-lived of the 15 tuna species. Its unique set of...
SciShow
Abilities Evolution Took From Us
A common misconception is that evolution is a long chain of progress, where organisms gain cool, new features over time. However, if a trait doesn't help with survival or reproduction, eventually it can disappear. Here are a few...
TED Talks
Hamish Jolly: A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it's not what you think)
Hamish Jolly, an ocean swimmer in Australia, wanted a wetsuit that would deter a curious shark from mistaking him for a potential source of nourishment. (Which, statistically, is rare, but certainly a fate worth avoiding.) Working with a...
SciShow
How Studying Animals Is Helping Us Make Better Drones
Drone technology has advanced a lot in the last few decades, but our flying robots still have a lot to learn about navigation, agility, and adaptability from animals that have been flying for millions of years.
SciShow
Extreme Animal Cannibalism
Evolution doesn't care about ethics - it cares about surviving and getting your alleles out there as much as possible. From that perspective, cannibalism can seem like a pretty good idea to some creatures. Hank introduces us to three...
SciShow
Why You’re More Afraid of Sharks Than Cows
Tons of people are afraid of sharks, but the reasons have a lot more to do with how our brains deal with risk than anything to do with these super cool sea critters. Heads up: This video contains footage of sharks.
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...
SciShow
5 Ways Orcas Have Earned the Nickname “Killer Whale”
Orcas are some of the most effective predators in the ocean, and each population of them has entirely different prey preferences and hunting techniques, more than earning their nickname “killer whale!” Chapters 1 MAKING WAVES 2:12...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The surprising reasons animals play dead - Tierney Thys
From lemurs to lizards, ants to amphibians, sharks to chickens, hundreds of animals "play dead" as a survival tactic. But how and why do animals do this? Tierney Thys explains how this curious behavior, known as tonic immobility or TI...
Bozeman Science
The Brain
In this video Paul Andersen explains the structures and functions of seventeen major parts of the brain. He begins with a quick discussion of brain evolution and ends with a review of the major parts presented inside the brainstem,...
SciShow Kids
Super Sharks!
Sharks are fascinating creatures with cool teeth, awesome scales, and there are over 450 kinds of sharks! Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn some super shark facts!
Curated Video
Only In Malaysia 13 - Underwater Juggling Record Attempt
Underwater Juggling Record Attempt:A serial record-breaker attempts to break the record for the longest underwater juggling at a Malaysia aquarium. Underwater Painting:Artists spend five hours creating a 36-meter-long underwater...