Instructional Video15:57
SciShow Kids

All About Teeth! | SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
In this SciShow Kids compilation, Jessi and Squeaks learn about why teeth are important, how they're different, and why some animals have really weird ones.
Instructional Video13:30
SciShow

Inbreeding with Yourself

12th - Higher Ed
*At the time this video was made, it had been reported that Charlotte the round ray was pregnant. However, new information has come out that she was never pregnant with parthenotes, and in fact had a reproductive disorder, which is a...
Instructional Video5:09
SciShow

Why Can't I Grow More Teeth?

12th - Higher Ed
How come sharks get to have endlessly regrowing teeth when humans only get one set our entire lives? And how come some other mammals get to cheat the system? From elephants to baboons, we'll learn why teeth don't grow back.
Instructional Video12:53
SciShow

They're Breaking the Species Barrier

12th - Higher Ed
There are wild hybridizations happening all the time! Here are five weird and wild hybrids that aren't just cool but could teach us something too. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) 0:00 Intro 1:06 Arctic Oddballs 3:43 Bouncing Baby Bears...
Instructional Video9:39
SciShow

7 of the Most Uniquely FIERCE Sharks

12th - Higher Ed
You've heard of the Great White and the Hammerhead—but what about the lesser known but equally fierce sharks? Join Hank Green for a biting look at 7 weird sharks you're sure to love (and fear!)
Instructional Video10:05
SciShow

6 Types of Odd Body Armor

12th - Higher Ed
From medieval knights to face shields, humans are pretty big fans of armor. But it turns out that other organisms use armor, too! Except sometimes, their armor doesn’t look like anything we’d expect. Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk
Instructional Video5:52
SciShow

What Zinc Means for Megalodon’s Extinction | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week in the journal Nature Communications, scientists report a way to use fossilized shark teeth to figure out where different shark species, including megalodon, stood in the web of life. And last week in the journal Scientific...
Instructional Video5:33
SciShow

Why Humans May Actually Be Fish

12th - Higher Ed
Is there a chance that more species may actually be closer to fish than we originally thought?
Instructional Video10:31
SciShow

5 Times Animals Inspired Better Drugs

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists have been turning to the animal world for inspiration for a long time, including for medicines. And many different types of animals have been responsible for this inspiration, including sharks, spiders, and... roadkill.
Instructional Video4:25
SciShow Kids

How Sharks Find Food With Electricity! | Amazing Animal Senses | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks learn about special spots on a shark's face that help them find food using electricity! First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function: The way an object is shaped or...
Instructional Video4:00
MinuteEarth

Rise Of The Mesopredator🎵 (ft. ScienceWithTom)

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to humans, old school apex predators are struggling to hold onto their perch at the top of the food chain. And now a new class of adaptable mesopredators are remaking the ecosystems they take over....
Instructional Video12:40
PBS

When Sharks Swam the Great Plains

12th - Higher Ed
If you've ever been to, or lived in, or even flown over the central swath of North America, then you've seen the remnants of what was a uniquely fascinating environment. Scientists call it the Western Interior Seaway, and at its greatest...
Instructional Video4:46
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The world's slimiest animal | Noah R. Bressman and Douglas Fudge

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 2017, a truck screeched to a halt. One of its containers slid off, hit a car, and spilled its contents— thousands of kilograms of hagfish. The result of this accident was an absolute mess: the highway was coated in a thick slime that...
Instructional Video19:58
SciShow Kids

5 Animal Valentines! | Valentine's Day | A SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
It’s Valentine’s Day, and Jessi and Squeaks got Valentines from their awesome animal friends all over the world! Hang out with them as they read some silly Valentine poems and learn about the animals that sent them!
Instructional Video3:26
SciShow

What Megalodon’s Teeth Say About Their Parenting

12th - Higher Ed
A shark's teeth usually says "stay away", but we can learn a lot from them, including what type of parents they were.
Instructional Video11:12
PBS

Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct

12th - Higher Ed
For more than 10 million years, Megalodon was at the top of its game as the oceans' apex predator...until 2.6 million years ago, when it went extinct. So, what happened to the largest shark in history?
Instructional Video5:51
SciShow

What Zinc Means for Megalodon’s Extinction | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
This week in the journal Nature Communications, scientists report a way to use fossilized shark teeth to figure out where different shark species, including megalodon, stood in the web of life. And last week in the journal Scientific...
Instructional Video14:11
TED Talks

Jim Toomey: Learning from Sherman the shark

12th - Higher Ed
Cartoonist Jim Toomey created the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, a wry look at underwater life starring Sherman the talking shark. As he sketches some of his favorite sea creatures live onstage, Toomey shares his love of the ocean and the...
Instructional Video4:56
SciShow

Great Whites May Have Taken Out Megalodon 3.6 Million Years Ago | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Megalodon is the largest shark that’s ever existed, and according to Hollywood it’s alive and well. But according to scientists, it’s definitely extinct, and it was probably thanks to its smaller cousins, great white sharks.
Instructional Video16:43
TED Talks

Simon Berrow: How do you save a shark you know nothing about?

12th - Higher Ed
They're the second-largest fish in the world, they're almost extinct, and we know almost nothing about them. In this talk, Simon Berrow describes the fascinating basking shark ("great fish of the sun" in Irish), and the exceptional --...
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

3 Discoveries You Missed Because of COVID

12th - Higher Ed
There have been a lot of scientific discoveries around COVID, but other science stories did happen in 2020 — including amazing discoveries about everything from dinosaurs to parasites.
Instructional Video13:55
TED Talks

TED: Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures | David Gruber

12th - Higher Ed
Just a few meters below the waves, marine biologist and explorer-photographer David Gruber discovered something amazing -- a surprising new range of sea creatures that glow in many colors in the ocean's dim blue light. Join his journey...
Instructional Video10:04
SciShow

6 Types of Odd Body Armor

12th - Higher Ed
From medieval knights to face shields, humans are pretty big fans of armor. But it turns out that other organisms use armor, too! Except sometimes, their armor doesn’t look like anything we’d expect.
Instructional Video4:22
TED-Ed

TED-ED: Will the ocean ever run out of fish? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet

Pre-K - Higher Ed
When most people think of fishing, we imagine relaxing in a boat and patiently reeling in the day's catch. But modern industrial fishing -- the kind that stocks our grocery shelves -- looks more like warfare. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and...