Next Animation Studio
New study supports asteroid theory of dinosaur extinction: UK scientists
Asteroid impact gets sole credit for wiping out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, according to new research.
Clarendon Learning
Dinosaurs for Kids | Learn about Dinosaur History, Fossils, Dinosaur Extinction and more!
Dinosaurs for Kids is a fun and comprehensive look at dinosaur history. In this video we highlight the various kinds of dinosaurs, talk about how they receive their names, famous dinosaur fossils, and we talk about the people who find...
SciShow
4 Mysterious Extinctions from Earth’s History
Nowadays, we're pretty confident about how the dinosaurs died out, but there are still other extinctions throughout Earth's history, some big, some small, that remain unsolved.
SciShow
4 Mysterious Extinctions from Earth’s History
Nowadays, we're pretty confident about how the dinosaurs died out, but there are still other extinctions throughout Earth's history, some big, some small, that remain unsolved.
Rock 'N Learn
The Name Game - Identify the Letter That Starts Your Name
Preschoolers love telling you the letter that starts their names. In this musical game from Rock 'N Learn, preschoolers have fun singing about names that start with each letter of the alphabet. When you hear the letter that starts your...
PBS
Who Should Pay To Fix Climate Change?
Over the past few centuries, a handful of countries reaped the benefits of fossil fuels and developed their economies, emitting a lot of greenhouse gases along the way. We now know these gases have changed the climate. But since the...
Curated Video
What killed the dinosaurs?
Did an asteroid or several million years worth of volcanic dust wipe out the dinosaurs? People and places -Environmental awareness and care - Environmental changes Learning Points Climate change can lead to mass extinction. A Twig...
Curated Video
Mass Extinction: Dinosaurs
It's been 65 million years since the dinosaurs became extinct. But what wiped them out? Hear arguments from the Gradualists and Catastrophists. Biology - Adaptation And Evolution - Learning Points. 65 million years ago the dinosaurs...
Science360
Plum Island Estuary Studying how marshes respond to sea-level rise
At the Plum Island Sound estuary in northeastern Massachusetts, the marsh floods like clockwork. At high tide, you can pass over the mudflats into the grass in a boat. At low tide, the ocean waters recede, leaving behind fresh deposits...
TED Talks
Emma Schachner: The secret weapon that let dinosaurs take over the planet
We've all heard the theories on why the dinosaurs died -- but how did they come to dominate the earth for so long in the first place? (Hint: it has nothing to do with their size, speed, spikes or fantastic feathers.) Travel back in time...
TED Talks
Peter Ward: A theory of Earth's mass extinctions
Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but "Medea Hypothesis" author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting...
Curated Video
Asteroid Strikes Yucatan Peninsula
Dr. Forrester defines the terms comet, asteroid, meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites by classifying them as objects found within space. She also discusses the Chicxulub crater at the tip of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and the theory...
Curated Video
Extinction of Species | Evolution | Biology | FuseSchool
When a plant or animal species that once lived stops existing entirely, we say that that species has become extinct. Why do certain species of plants and animals sometimes become extinct? According to the theory of evolution, individuals...
PBS
How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
When pterosaurs first took flight, you could say that it marked the beginning of the end for the winged reptiles. Because, strangely enough, the power of flight -- and the changes that it led to -- may have ultimately led to their downfall.
Hip Hughes History
History of Immigration in the US for Dummies
Let HipHughes escort you through a few hundred years of United States immigration, simple, stupid and aimed at the heart of big ideas.
TED-Ed
When Will the Next Mass Extinction Occur?
Normal background extinctions and mass extinction events are examined in this short video that suggests that environmental change, naturally occurring and change caused by humans, is the key factor in such events.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Day the Mesozoic Died
Solve the ultimate who dunnit mystery: the death of the dinosaurs. Viewers watch an engaging video that describes how the asteroid impact hypothesis came to fruition and the evidence supporting it. The video also explains how life...
Curated OER
Asteroid Attack - Where's the Evidence?
What evidence do we have to prove the theory that a huge asteroid led to the extinction of the dinosaurs? This two-minute clip gives a brief look at the evidence geologists have found to prove their theory.
Khan Academy
Cosmological Time Scale 1, Scale of the Universe, Cosmology and Astronomy
A scaled timeline highlights periods relevant to us since the Big Bang. Events on the timeline include the formation of Earth, the extinction of dinosaurs, and the emergence of modern humans.
TED-Ed
The Coelacanth: A Living Fossil of a Fish
It was just another day of fishing at the local pier when a man unknowingly reeled in a fish thought to be extinct for 65 million years. This short video explains how scientists were surprised to discover that this 360 million year...
MinutePhysics
A Brief History of Everything feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Explore the creation of the world as we know it today! An engaging narrator uses a storytelling approach to describe the creation of the universe through black holes. He continues to explain the behavior of subatomic particles as they...
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Dinosaur Videos: Dinosaur Extinction Video
Find out about some of the theories of how the dinosaurs became extinct. [2:02]