SciShow
The New Oldest Animal Fossils?
A new study reports what might be the oldest fossil animals ever found. And we're also learning more about what role the hippocampus plays in certain types of visual memory.
Professor Dave Explains
History of the Earth Part 2: Phanerozoic Eon – Paleozoic Era
We just cruised through the Hadean, Archean, and Proterozoic eons. That brings us all the way to the Phanerozoic eon, which is the one we are still living in today. This is split up into the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic eras, so...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Cambrian Explosion
Des Collins studies the fossils of the Burgess Shale that represent the Cambrian Explosion of animal life. An animation of this event shows the transition from the simple animals that existed before the explosion to the many complex,...
Crash Course
Crash Course Big History #203: Why the Evolutionary Epic Matters
This video explains the timeline of the history of life on earth beginning with one-celled organisms to the present. She discusses the mass extinctions up through today in the 6th mass extinction which is being caused by humans.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: History of Life on Earth:first Living Things on Land Clarification
A clarification of a previous video, that expands upon the topic of the first living things on land. [5:35]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: History of Life on Earth:biodiversity Flourishes in Phanerozoic Eon
Video lecture discusses Cambrian explosion and biodiversity in the Phanerozoic Eon. [10:27]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biodiversity Flourishes in Phanerozoic Eon
Cambrian explosion and biodiversity in the Phanerozoic Eon. [10:28]