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Why Don’t Jellyfish Look Like That?
When you think of a jellyfish, do you imagine an angelic stingy blob? That's just one stage of the life of a jelly!
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This Robot Filled the Deep Ocean Gap in the Carbon Cycle
Carbon is fundamental to life on Earth. And it goes through a complex cycle, from up in the atmosphere, to the depths of the ocean. But down there, the carbon trail gets harder to follow. Or at least, it was that way until this little...
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Shocking Facts About Snakes You Should Definitely Know
The world of snakes is pretty mysterious: maybe you fear them, love them, or respect them from afar, but we can't help but wonder what is it about snakes that makes them so fascinating? Join us for a fun SciShow compilation of everything...
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Wood-eating Clams: The Real Kraken?
For thousands of years, a sea creature has plagued sailors by attacking and devouring their ships. It is so destructive that reportedly it swiss-cheesed the hulls of Christopher Columbus’s ships, sinking at least two of them.
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Why Are There No Male Whalefish?
Thanks to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and their research and technology partner MBARI for partnering with us on this episode of SciShow. They worked together on an exhibition, “Into The Deep: Exploring Our Undiscovered Ocean,” to give...
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Cephalopods Have a Totally Wild Way of Adapting
With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s resident aliens. But researchers have discovered yet another thing that separates them from most other animals on...
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Underwater Discovery and Adventure: The Story of Jacques Cousteau
Learn about the famous red hat wearing underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau! Hosted by: Hank Green
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The Little Lobster That Reveals Climate
Pelagic red crabs are actually lobsters - and that’s not even the weirdest thing about them! They sometimes wash up on shore in droves, signaling large scale climate events like El Niños and serving as a warning to marine biologists of...
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How Do Wetsuits Keep You Warm?
Snorkelers, surfers, divers. They all use them… wetsuits! So how do they work to keep you warm? It turns out layers of materials, and water itself!
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Crabs, Cockroaches, and 3 Other Pollinators That Aren't Bees
Bees aren’t the only pollinators out there. Some of the other, more surprising pollinators aren't just unconventional, they give us unique examples of how the relationship between pollinators and plants evolved in the first place. Hosted...
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3 Secrets About Ancient Earth, Hidden in Marine Fossils
Fossils can provide clues to the conditions that ancient species lived in, like what their environments felt like, how deep in the water some species lived, or even how long the Sun was out!
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This Worm's Gut Has No Way In or Out
There are plenty of creatures out there with only one opening to handle both taking in food and getting rid of waste. But there’s at least one animal out there that doesn’t have a gut opening… at all. How does that even work?!
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The Shapeshifting Deep Sea Jellyfish... With a "Pet"
This weird-looking creature has been mistaken for a lot of things, including a whale placenta and a sea monster as well as a garbage bag. And less often, it’s recognized for what it is: a jellyfish!
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The Mystery of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Death Trap
Paleontologists think they've solved part of the mystery of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, a dense bed of Jurassic dinosaur fossils. Also, electron microscope images reveal new, mucus-drenched info about the tubelip wrasse.
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Fish Pee: The Coral Reef Superfood
Fish consider the ocean their own personal toilet. Well, researchers found out that's not such a bad thing!
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Earth Has Another Magnetic Field
You probably know about the geomagnetic field that protects the earth from solar storms and radiation. But precision satellites have measured ANOTHER magnetic field coming from Earth, and its signals might hold the key to searching for...
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Doggerland: A Real-Life Atlantis
Though we probably won’t find a literal Atlantis beneath the sea, that doesn’t mean that a human settlement hasn’t ever been lost to the water. Meet Doggerland.
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7 of the Most Uniquely FIERCE Sharks
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!)
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5 Technologies Helping Us Explore The Deep Ocean
The ocean is the largest ecosystem on Earth, but it's still mostly unexplored. This is partially due to the challenges of ocean exploration, like bone-crushing pressure and the need to bring your own air. But here are five ways that...
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What Penguin Bones Can Tell Us About Dying Glaciers
We know these glaciers are already on the way out, so we need to find out whether we can bulk them back up again. For that, we turn to the glaciers’ past – and a lot of penguin bones.
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What If Earth Spun the Other Way?
How different would things be if Earth had always rotated in the opposite direction? Hosted by: Stefan Chin
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9 Weird Ways Animals Communicate
We all know ducks quack, dogs bark, and birds chirp, but that barely scratches the surface of all the amazing ways animals have devised to talk to each other!
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More Clues to the Oldest Fossils Ever
New evidence suggests some fossils as the oldest known sign of life on Earth, and scientists may have a way to speed up the process of carbon neutralization in the ocean!
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How Climate Change Affects Ocean Life | Compilation
We can see the effects of the climate crisis in many different ways here on land. But the oceans are also part of the interconnected, global system. So, here are a few ways that climate change affects our oceanic buddies.