Instructional Video9:54
PBS

Nautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until These Guys Showed Up

12th - Higher Ed
Around 30 million years ago, a new group of predators began to push nautiloids from their former global range into a single remaining refuge. But who were these predators?
Instructional Video8:31
PBS

How the Squid Lost Its Shell

12th - Higher Ed
The ancestors of modern, squishy cephalopods like the octopus and the squid all had shells. In ancient times, their shell was their greatest asset but it eventually proved to be their biggest weakness.
Instructional Video3:13
SciShow

The Story of the World's Favorite Fossil

12th - Higher Ed
What is the world's favorite fossil? Why the orthoceras of course! Hank will tell why that is in this episode of SciShow. Find out how you can get your very own orthoceras fossil.
Instructional Video5:06
SciShow

Sparkling Clouds and Other Wild Ways Cephalopods Use Ink

12th - Higher Ed
Octopuses and other cephalopods can squirt ink when threatened, but the forms the ink takes can go way beyond your typical smokescreen.
Instructional Video9:44
Bizarre Beasts

The Only Octopus With a Shell

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The octopus is a pretty odd animal under even the most ordinary circumstances – or ordinary by octopus standards, at least. So when folks start calling out one type of octopus as the strangest, there’s probably something special about...
Instructional Video20:23
Professor Dave Explains

Phylum Mollusca Part 4: Class Cephalopoda (Squids, Nautiluses, Cuttlefish, and Octopuses)

12th - Higher Ed
We now arrive at the most famous of the mollusks, the cephalopods. These include squids, nautiluses, cuttlefish, and the fascinating octopuses. These creatures are the largest and most intelligent invertebrates on Earth. Let's learn all...
Instructional Video11:07
Professor Dave Explains

Phylum Mollusca Part 1: General Introduction

12th - Higher Ed
We've covered most of Spiralia, but now it's time to dive into the final subclade, Lophotrochozoa. This contains several phyla, the most diverse of which is Mollusca. This phylum includes snails, slugs, octopuses, squids, oysters,...
Instructional Video3:46
Bizarre Beasts

A Feast of Bones

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Deep in the ocean, resting on the seafloor, there is a strange ecosystem – one built on the bodies of the dead. Join us on a tour of a whale fall.
Instructional Video4:54
Bethany Thiele, Art Teacher

Colorful Nautilus Shell with Watercolor Pencils | Grabie Product Review and Demo

K - 5th
Colorful Nautilus Shell with Watercolor Pencils | Grabie Product Review and Demo
Instructional Video2:40
Science360

NERD STUFF

12th - Higher Ed
In episode 25, Charlie and Jordan examine a rare nautiluses (not seen in 30 years), how to fold a shell and enrolling more girls in computer science classes.
Instructional Video3:04
Vlogbrothers

The Cutest Octopus

6th - 11th
The Dumbo Octopus is very good and mysterious. I love them a lot and I want everyone to know it.
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Molluscs: Nautilus Regulates Its Buoyancy

9th - 10th
A nautilus' shell, when x-rayed, reveals the many chambers, which the nautilus uses to regulate buoyancy as it moves up and down in the ocean. Observe this process with this video! [1:54]
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Peter Ward, Paleontologist: The Ancient Nautilus

9th - 10th
Watch the adventures of Peter Ward in this video. As a paleontologist Peter Ward studied fossil nautiloids for years before he went to New Caledonia to see and trap living nautiloids. He's interested in the adaptations that allowed this...
Instructional Video
Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: Mollusc Animation: Nautilus Body Plan

9th - 10th
Numerous tentacles, a funnel that evolved from the foot, a mantle that secretes the shell, and a pair of jaws with a radula- these all clearly show the nautilus mollusc design. Spiraling through the shell, a tube called the siphuncle...