SciShow Kids
How Do Squirrels Find the Food they Hide? | How Animals Prepare for Winter | SciShow Kids
Squirrels eat a lot of things that are pretty tricky to find in the winter, like nuts and berries. Luckily for them, they have lots of clever ways to store up food to last them through the cold parts of the year!
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The evolution of animal genitalia - Menno Schilthuizen
Genitals are the fastest-evolving organs in the animal kingdom. But why is this so? And what's the point of having decorative private parts? Menno Schilthuizen explains how the evolutionary biology of nature's nether regions uncovers a...
SciShow Kids
Why Do Squirrels Dig?
Squirrels eat a lot of things that are pretty tricky to find in the winter, like nuts and berries. Luckily for them, they have lots of clever ways to store up food to last them through the cold parts of the year!
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Camouflage in Animals, Insects and Plants
In this video, the teacher discusses the concept of camouflage in animals and plants. The teacher explains how different species have adapted to their environments through natural variations and favorable traits. The different types of...
Curated Video
The Theory of Evolution and its Challenges: Darwin, Lamarck, and the Science Behind Adaptation
This video discusses Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and how it was received at the time it was published. It starts with Darwin's observations during his world expedition in the 19th century, particularly on the finches of the...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Exploring the World of Invertebrates
This video is a lesson on invertebrates, the largest group in the animal kingdom. It explains the two main groups of animals - vertebrates and invertebrates - and focuses on the characteristics and examples of invertebrates. The video...
Mazz Media
Way Cool Science II: Seeds and Plants
Friendly and fun host, Max Orbit, asks questions about the world and searches for answers. This DVD series is designed to engage students while introducing scientific principles and concepts in a fun and entertaining way. In this program...
SciShow
The Awesome Bug That Lives on Frozen Volcanos
In the frozen mini volcanoes on Maunakea in Hawai'i there lives a scavenger-predator that prefers its meals delivered.
Professor Dave Explains
Entomologist Adrian Smith (Get to Know a Scientist!)
Entomology is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects, and that's what Adrian Smith studies. He works with some fascinating organisms, documenting their morphology and behavior, and is the head of the Evolutionary...
Wonderscape
Unique Hibernators: A Closer Look at Animal Dormancy
This video showcases the hibernation behaviors of a variety of animals, from crocodiles and bumblebees to common poorwills and groundhogs. It highlights fascinating facts like crocodiles digging burrows for hibernation and estivation,...
Natural History Museum
How can we create vital habitats for insects? | Live talk with NHM scientist
Insects are in trouble and they need our help. Can restoring rare chalk grassland habitats and creating new ‘butterfly banks’ help address their decline? Join Science Communicator Alison Shean and scientists Katy Potts and Steph Holt as...
Clarendon Learning
Insects for Kids | Have fun learning all about different kinds of bugs! | Parts of an insect
Insects for kids is a fun video where we get to learn all about bugs! We start by identifying different kinds of bugs like butterflies, beetles, moths, arachnids, etc. We then take a deeper look at what makes up the bodies of insects:...
Curated Video
Insect control - Dr Nina Alphey | The Royal Society
Pest insects cause enormous harm and economic damage, transmitting many human, animal and plant diseases. Currently insecticide resistance is spreading at the same time as chemicals are being banned and current methods of controlling...
Curated Video
Insect Control - Professor Luke Alphey | The Royal Society
Pest insects cause enormous harm and economic damage, transmitting many human, animal and plant diseases. Currently insecticide resistance is spreading at the same time as chemicals are being banned and current methods of controlling...
Natural History Museum
How Museum curators organise the insect collection | ASMR
How do we keep millions of insect specimens organised? Join volunteer Eve Bond for a little ASMR at the Museum. Put your headphones on and listen as Eve carefully prepares several new additions to the fly collection. Biodiversity is the...
Curated Video
How do insects find their way home?
Find out at this year's Summer Science Exhibition, part of See Further: The Festival of Science + Arts
Curated Video
The Science of Iridescence
This video explores the concept of iridescence, where seemingly colorless or differently colored surfaces change their color when viewed from different angles. It explains how iridescence occurs through mechanisms like thin film and...
American Museum of Natural History
The Science of Speciation – Molecular Adaptation in Vampire Bats
Over 20% of all living mammal species are bats, and each is adapted to a particular diet: nectar, fruit, meat, insects—even blood! Follow scientists into the jungles of Brazil, and to a genomic sequencing lab at Temple University, as...
Curated Video
Why Americans want these insects dead
Can we actually kill all the spotted lanternflies? Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Over the summer, for the first time in what feels like a while, Americans united under a single...
Natural History Museum
Is this the world's coolest insect? | Natural History Museum
When you think of the largest land-based animal in Antarctica, seals and penguins may come to mind, but they spend part of their lives at sea. The largest animal that spends its entire life on Antarctica is probably much smaller than you...
Curated Video
Basic Needs of Living Things: Part 2
Dr. Algae shows examples of how different living things receive the food, air, and water that they need to survive.
SciShow Kids
Dung Beetles and Their Big Balls of Poop!
Jessi teaches Squeaks all about Dung Beetles, a special kind of insect that pushes around something that might surprise you. Next Generation Science Standards 1-LS1-1 Disciplinary Core Idea: LS1.A "Different animals use their body parts...
SciShow Kids
What On Earth is a Platypus? | SciShow Kids
Platypuses are so funny, it looks like someone made them up as a joke. But they're real animals! Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn about how amazing platypuses really are! Teachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation...
TED Talks
TED: How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers | Oded Shoseyov
What do you get when you combine the strongest materials from the plant world with the most elastic ones from the insect kingdom? Super-performing materials that might transform ... everything. Nanobiotechnologist Oded Shoseyov walks us...