Instructional Video4:49
PBS

Stegosaurs: Tiny Brains & Thagomizers

12th - Higher Ed
If you take it as a given that extinct dinosaurs were all weird and wonderful, then you gotta at least consider that Stegosaurus was one of the weirdest and wonderfulest.
Instructional Video6:19
SciShow

The Birds That Lived in The Age of Dinosaurs

12th - Higher Ed
While we know that birds are the descendants of dinosaurs, we don't think much about the ones that lived alongside them, and they are a hot topic amongst paleontologists today.
Instructional Video4:41
SciShow

Know Your Scientists Archaeology or Paleontology

12th - Higher Ed
How do you make an archaeologist really mad, really fast? Ask her if she’s found any dinosaurs. SciShow helps you Know Your Scientists by explaining the many differences between archaeology and paleontology, and how they’re each awesome...
Instructional Video5:26
SciShow

Antimatter Light Spectrum Discovered!

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists were able to measure the emission lines of antimatter! And we may have some new clues about how dinosaurs lost their teeth on the way to becoming birds.
Instructional Video5:22
SciShow Kids

The Very First Living Thing! | The History of Life! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Squeaks built a pretend time machine, and he and Mister Brown use their imaginations to travel back in time to learn all about the very first living thing! Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Ideas: LS4.D:...
Instructional Video16:29
TED Talks

Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken

12th - Higher Ed
Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He's found fossils with extraordinarily well-preserved blood vessels and soft tissues, but never intact DNA. So, in a new approach, he's taking...
Instructional Video3:48
SciShow Kids

Dig In To Paleontology

K - 5th
Would you like to spend all day thinking about dinosaurs? Well, some scientists do! Find out all about what it means to be a paleontologist!
Instructional Video10:40
SciShow

5 Unsolved Mysteries About Dinosaurs

12th - Higher Ed
We can learn a lot from dinosaur fossils, but figuring how they behaved is a real challenge.
Instructional Video5:34
SciShow

How Shoulders Took Over the World (ft. Emily Graslie!)

12th - Higher Ed
Emily Graslie joins us to share the wonder of how shoulders, humble as they may be, have played a huge role in the evolution of mammals the world over. Thanks to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Havard and The Field Museum for...
Instructional Video4:00
SciShow

Inside the Nepal Earthquake

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow News explains the forces at work behind the earthquake in Nepal, introduces you to a new species of dinosaur, and reveals a discovery in Antarctica.
Instructional Video3:48
SciShow Kids

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a DINOSAUR!

K - 5th
Dino's back to share more dinosaur facts with you, and this time he has some incredible news: birds are the descendants of dinosaurs! Join him to learn the whole story!
Instructional Video1:40
MinuteEarth

What Makes A Dinosaur?

12th - Higher Ed
Due to a revolution in our understanding of the tree of life, birds are dinosaurs, while dimetrodons are not. ___________________________________________ FYI: We try to leave jargon out of our videos, but if you want to learn more about...
Instructional Video5:17
PBS

When Did the First Flower Bloom?

12th - Higher Ed
During the Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs were more diverse, more fierce, and more strange than ever. But something else was happening under the feet of the terrible lizards: for the first time in history, there were flowers.
Instructional Video5:19
Be Smart

Which Came First - Flowers or Bees?

12th - Higher Ed
Bees and flowers have an amazingly close relationship. Flowers need bees in order to reproduce, and bees need flowers to feed their colonies. Take away one, and the other would disappear too. It begs the question: When it comes to...
Instructional Video7:56
SciShow

A Brief History of Life: Rise of the Humans

12th - Higher Ed
With the non-avian dinosaurs extinct, it was time for mammals to take over. Finally, in the tiniest sliver of the history of life, humans emerge.
Instructional Video8:48
TED Talks

Lauren Sallan: A brief tour of the last 4 billion years (dinosaurs not included)

12th - Higher Ed
In this hilarious, whirlwind tour of the last four billion years of evolution, paleontologist and TED Fellow Lauren Sallan introduces us to some of the wildly diverse animals that roamed the prehistoric planet (from sharks with wings to...
Instructional Video10:09
PBS

Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest

12th - Higher Ed
The Triassic was full of creatures that look a lot like other, more modern species, even though they're not closely related at all. The reason for this has to do with how evolution works and with the timing of the Triassic itself: when...
Instructional Video8:03
PBS

That Time It Rained for Two Million Years

12th - Higher Ed
At the beginning of the Triassic Period, with the continents locked together from pole-to-pole in the supercontinent of Pangea, the world is hot, flat, and very, very dry. But then 234 million years ago, the climate suddenly changed for...
Instructional Video2:21
SciShow

Are Plastic Dinosaurs Made from Real Dinosaurs?!

12th - Higher Ed
You've probably heard this one before: Plastic is made from oil, and oil is made from dinosaurs, so a plastic dinosaur is made out of real dinosaur. It sounds pretty profound... but it's not that simple.
Instructional Video13:00
PBS

From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans

12th - Higher Ed
After taking you on a journey through geologic time, we've arrived at the Cenozoic Era. Most of the mammals and birds that you can think of appeared during this era but perhaps more importantly, the Cenozoic marks the rise of organisms...
Instructional Video6:10
PBS

How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?

12th - Higher Ed
Part of why we're so fascinated with extinct dinosaurs it's just hard for us to believe that animals that huge actually existed. And yet, they existed! From the Jurassic to the Cretaceous Periods, creatures as tall as a five-story...
Instructional Video12:20
PBS

An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs

12th - Higher Ed
Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just how much we have learned. Let's explore the history of...
Instructional Video10:20
SciShow

What Really Killed the Dinosaurs

12th - Higher Ed
What wiped out the dinosaurs? Most of us were taught it was a killer asteroid—which is true. But it turns out there was more than one disaster movie playing at the cineplex that was Earth 66 million years ago.
Instructional Video9:18
PBS

The Whole Saga of the Supercontinents

12th - Higher Ed
The study of natural history is the study of how the world has changed but Earth itself is in a constant state of flux -- because the ground beneath your feet is always moving. So if we want to know how we got here, we have to understand...