SciShow
What Squids and Frogs Taught Us About How Brain Cells Talk
Back in the early days of neuroscience, we didn't study the animals you might expect to learn about how brain cells communicate.
TED Talks
TED: To solve old problems, study new species | Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado
Nature is wonderfully abundant, diverse and mysterious -- but biological research today tends to focus on only seven species, including rats, chickens, fruit flies and us. We're studying an astonishingly narrow sliver of life, says...
SciShow
Great Minds: Mary Anning, "The Greatest Fossilist in the World"
Learn about Mary Anning, one of England's most important contributors to the field of paleontology.
SciShow
Huge Sperm and Giant Tentacles: Relax, It's Marine Biology
SciShow shares the latest developments in science, this week including new insights into the evolution of giant sperm, and the discovery of a whole new order of animal.
SciShow
Why Does Fish Flake?
If you’ve ever eaten it, you’ve probably noticed how flaky fish can be. Poke at it with your fork and it just falls apart — no knife required. What makes fish different from other animal protein?
SciShow
Why Do Humans Have Butts?
If you've been wondering why we have butts, wonder no more! We have an answer for you.
SciShow
SciShow Talk Show: Dr. Amanda Duley, Brains, & Joy the Macaw
Dr. Amanda Duley of the spectrUM Discovery Area's BrainLab joins the show to share some of the activities that visitors of the lab get to experience and Jessi from Animal Wonders brings on Joy the blue-and-gold macaw.
SciShow Kids
The Fastest Punch in the World
There is one ocean creature that is so strong, it could punch its way out of most aquariums, and it's only 30 centimeters long!
SciShow
SciShow Talk Show: The Insectarium with Olivia Gordon
Welcome back to SciShow Talk Show where Hank talks with interesting people about interesting things! In this episode Hank talks with Olivia Gordon of the Missoula Butterfly House and Insectarium. Chapters View all MISSOULA BUTTERFLY...
SciShow
The Science of Screaming, And What Was the Biggest Dinosaur?
Scientists dissect the human scream for the first time, and also re-think what was thought to be the biggest dinosaur in the world.
SciShow
The Strange Case of the Missing Sunscreen Gene
If you've ever spent too much time in the sun and forgotten to put on sunscreen, you know how painful a sunburn can be. But for some animals, forgetting the sunscreen wouldn't be a problem because they can just produce their own!
TED Talks
Laurel Braitman: Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans
Behind those funny animal videos, sometimes, are oddly human-like problems. Laurel Braitman studies non-human animals who exhibit signs of mental health issues -- from compulsive bears to self-destructive rats to monkeys with unlikely...
Crash Course
Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth - Crash Course Biology
Hank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology, which compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship, and to discover how those processes...
PBS
Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
With its lizard-like appearance and that distinctive sail on it back, Dimetrodon is practically the mascot of the Palaeozoic Era, a time before flowers, birds, mammals, and even crocodiles. But if you take a close look at this...
SciShow
Talk Show: Dr. Diana Six, the Mountain Pine Beetle, and Another Insect that freaks Hank out
Diana Six teaches Hank about the Mountain Pine Beetle and all its glory, including taste! Then Jessi from Animal Wonders introduces Hank to a couple cuties he is not too sure about.
SciShow
6 Surprising Blood-Drinking Animals
Hank introduces us to 6 blood-drinking (or otherwise consuming) animals that you may not be aware of. Don't freak out... Chapters VAMPIRE BAT 1:35 LAMPREY 1:52 HOOD MOCKING BIRD 2:20 THE VAMPIRE FINCH 2:46 BUTTERFLIES 2:56 HUMANS 3:22
SciShow
Can You Bamboozle Birds With Magic?
Humans love illusions, but are we the only animals that fall for them?
SciShow
SciShow Talk Show: Environmental Engineer Mike Potts & Slick the Tiger Salamander
Welcome back to SciShow Talk Show where Hank Green talks with interesting people! In this episode Hank talks with Mike Potts, an environmental engineer at Pioneer Technical Services, Inc. with special guest Jessi Knudsen Castañeda....
SciShow
SciShow Talk Show: Animal Weapons with Doug Emlen & A Southern Three-Banded Armadillo
This week on the SciShow Talk Show Doug Emlen talks about animal weapons! Jessi from Animal Wonders joins the show to talk about animal defenses and introduce us to the southern three-banded armadillo.
SciShow
How Weed Works: THC
Hank explains the science behind the effects of that wackiest of weeds, cannabis sativa - aka marijuana.
SciShow
Chimera Cats and Your Mom
Hank talks about chimeras, and why Venus the cat probably isn't one - but your mom might be
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why do we kiss under mistletoe? - Carlos Reif
The sight of mistletoe may either send you scurrying or, if you have your eye on someone, awaiting an opportunity beneath its snow-white berries. But how did the festive tradition of kissing under mistletoe come about? Carlos Reif...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: How did feathers evolve? - Carl Zimmer
To look at the evolution of modern bird feathers, we must start a long time ago, with the dinosaurs from whence they came. We see early incarnations of feathers on dinosaur fossils, and remnants of dinosaurs in a bird's wish bone. Carl...
SciShow
The Vine That 'Loves' Parasitic Wasps to Death
This vine loves sucking the life out of plants AND insects.