Instructional Video3:38
SciShow Kids

Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? Animal Science for Kids

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks look into an animal mystery: Why do zebras have stripes?
Instructional Video16:06
TED Talks

Keith Bellows: The camel's hump

12th - Higher Ed
Keith Bellows gleefully outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a vital creature he calls "the SUV of the desert." Though he couldn't bring a live camel to TED, he gets his camera crew as close as humanly possible to a one-ton...
Instructional Video9:41
SciShow

10 Strange-Looking Prehistoric Animals

12th - Higher Ed
Take a close look at some of the strangest-looking animals evolution has created.
Instructional Video3:33
SciShow

This Animal Has a Retractable Anus

12th - Higher Ed
Most animals keep their poop chutes on the opposite side of their body from where they eat. But that doesn’t mean it’s always the case, and bryozoans are great examples of how creative you can get with where you put your anus.
Instructional Video15:42
Crash Course Kids

Food Chains Compilation

3rd - 8th
Maybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. So today, let's just watch some videos about how we get energy. And how one animal gets energy from another animal, or a plant. It's all about food chains and food...
Instructional Video3:36
SciShow

Where Are All the Dead Animals

12th - Higher Ed
We are surrounded by wildlife, like pigeons and squirrels, all the time. Sadly, all those animals eventually die, but why don't we see carcasses on the street? Where do they go?
Instructional Video3:18
SciShow Kids

Why Do Kangaroos Have Pouches? Animal Science for Kids

K - 5th
What do kangaroos, koalas, and opossums all have in common? Find out when you learn all about marsupials!
Instructional Video13:47
TED Talks

TED: The roots of plant intelligence | Stefano Mancuso

12th - Higher Ed
Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing...
Instructional Video3:07
SciShow

The Terrifying Fish with Transparent Teeth

12th - Higher Ed
The deep-sea dragonfish is a predator that lives deep in the Pacific Ocean. Like many other deep sea predators, it's got an oversized jaw and a bioluminescent appendage to attract prey, but it does have one weird (and strangely useful)...
Instructional Video3:30
MinuteEarth

¿Por Qué Los Murciélagos Transmiten Tantas Enfermedades (como el Coronavirus)?

12th - Higher Ed
No, los murciélagos no tienen ningún tipo de vendetta hacia nosotros. Muchas gracias a Roberto Ramírez Alcantar por apoyarnos en Patreon. ¡Ayudas a que MinutoDeLaTierra sea posible! Siempre tratamos de usar lenguaje fácil de comprender,...
Instructional Video3:24
SciShow

Why No Giant Mammals?

12th - Higher Ed
Hank gives a quick run-down of the reasons scientists think the land mammals of today are nowhere near the size of the largest sauropods. Some of them might surprise you!
Instructional Video3:08
SciShow

How to Make A Humanzee

12th - Higher Ed
We all know about inter species animal hybrids - Napoleon Dynamite's favorite animal, the liger, is a typical example. But could a human and our closest primate relative the chimpanzee also breed a living hybrid? Hank explores this ......
Instructional Video3:24
SciShow

Camel Dung was The First Probiotic

12th - Higher Ed
Back in the day, bacterial diseases like dysentery were super deadly, but the nomadic people in northern Africa had long known about an effective, if hard to swallow, cure.
Instructional Video5:13
TED-Ed

TED-ED: How brain parasites change their host's behavior - Jaap de Roode

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The biggest challenge in a parasite's life is to move from one host to another. Intriguingly, many parasites have evolved the ability to manipulate the behavior of their hosts to improve their own survival -- sometimes even by direct...
Instructional Video4:30
SciShow

Foxes Might Use Magnetic Fields to Hunt

12th - Higher Ed
How do foxes know where to pounce when they can't see their prey? There's evidence they're using the Earth's magnetic field to help.
Instructional Video3:14
SciShow

Oxygen is Killing You

12th - Higher Ed
Hank introduces us to oxygen - the element that makes it possible for most animals to live, but which is simultaneously responsible for a lot of bad things going on in our bodies.
Instructional Video5:58
SciShow

This Ancient Mammal's Ears Were Built for Chewing

12th - Higher Ed
In this weeks science news, new fossil has been found that might help us understand how jaw bones evolved into complex middle ears found in mammals, and a new treatment regimen for treating babies with HIV shows promise.
Instructional Video7:46
SciShow

10 Ridiculous Scientific Names

12th - Higher Ed
There aren't as many rules to naming a scientific discovery as you might think-- and that has led to some pretty outrageous names. Chapters HALORUBRUM CHAOVIATOR 1:10 OSEDAX MUCOFLORIS 1:43 HETEROPODA DAVIDBOWIE 2:58 SCAPTIA BEYONCEAE...
Instructional Video7:35
SciShow

Venomous Mammals, Sensory Receptors & the Moon's True Origin Story

12th - Higher Ed
Hank describes to us some news stories that illustrate how science is continually changing the things we think we "know" - from the status of various animals species, to the way our senses work and even where the Moon came from -...
Instructional Video3:13
Crash Course Kids

Feed Me: Classifying Organisms

3rd - 8th
FEED ME! In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina has a chat with us about what living things eat to get energy. What makes something an omnivore, or a carnivore, or an herbivore? And how do plants fit in to all of this? This first...
Instructional Video3:58
SciShow

Extreme Animal Milks You Probably Don't Want To Drink

12th - Higher Ed
All mammals produce milk, but you probably wouldn't want to dip your cookies in all of them.
Instructional Video3:02
SciShow

Animal Survival Skills: Poison Edition

12th - Higher Ed
We can purge our stomachs by vomiting when we consume something that our body thinks might be harmful, but what about animals that can't?
Instructional Video4:30
Be Smart

Ghosts of Evolution

12th - Higher Ed
What does a ginkgo tree have in common with a dinosaur?
Instructional Video5:29
Be Smart

Thomas Jefferson and The Giant Moose

12th - Higher Ed
America's first great science battle wasn't the space race or the atom bomb, it was fought between Thomas Jefferson, a French nobleman, and in the middle a giant moose. Some people call Jefferson our only scientist-President, and T.J....