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7 Extreme Animal Moms
From changing diapers to cleaning up vomit, human parents can have it tough, but at least they don't have to incubate their babies under their skin or liquify their own guts to feed their brood like these animal moms do! In honor of...
SciShow
Do Wild Animals Intentionally Get High?
As a species, humans tend to have a bit of a fondness for mind altering substances. Is this true of other animals as well?
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why elephants never forget - Alex Gendler
It's a common saying that elephants never forget. But the more we learn about elephants, the more it appears that their impressive memory is only one aspect of an incredible intelligence that makes them some of the most social, creative,...
SciShow
Do Animals Mourn Their Dead?
We can't know if or how animals understand death, but behavioral changes in some species could mean they experience something similar to human grief.
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Resurrection Biology: How to Bring Animals Back From Extinction
We've all seen the movies and heard the hype: But is it really possible to bring back animals that have gone extinct? If so, how? And how soon? And can I have a mammoth to ride around in my backyard? Hank explains the latest research...
TED Talks
Jaap de Roode: How butterflies self-medicate
Just like us, the monarch butterfly sometimes gets sick thanks to a nasty parasite. But biologist Jaap de Roode noticed something interesting about the butterflies he was studying — infected female butterflies would choose to lay their...
TED Talks
TED: What are animals thinking and feeling? | Carl Safina
What's going on inside the brains of animals? Can we know what, or if, they're thinking and feeling? Carl Safina thinks we can. using discoveries and anecdotes that span ecology, biology and behavioral science, he weaves together stories...
TED Talks
TED: The interspecies internet? An idea in progress | Diana Reiss, Peter Gabriel, Neil Gershenfeld and Vint Cerf
Apes, dolphins and elephants are animals with remarkable communication skills. Could the internet be expanded to include sentient species like them? A new and developing idea from a panel of four great thinkers -- dolphin researcher...
TED Talks
Lucy King: How bees can keep the peace between elephants and humans
Imagine waking in the middle of the night to an elephant ripping the roof from your house in search of food. This is a reality in some communities in Africa where, as wild spaces shrink, people and elephants are competing for space and...
MinuteEarth
How to Keep Elephants and Wolves Out of Your Yard
How to Keep Elephants and Wolves Out of Your Yard
MinuteEarth
Why Wolves Don't Chirp
Sounds that animals make can be really different, and it turns out that there's a reason why some species communicate with certain sounds.
SciShow
Did Dinosaurs Really Have Feathers?
At least one entire class of dinosaurs seems to have had feathers, including velociraptors, and probably T. rex. Find out how we know, and how we even know what color some of them were!
SciShow
Why No Giant Mammals?
Hank gives a quick run-down of the reasons scientists think the land mammals of today are nowhere near the size of the largest sauropods. Some of them might surprise you!
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The twisting tale of DNA - Judith Hauck
What do a man, a mushroom, and an elephant have in common? A very long and simple double helix molecule makes us more similar and much more different than any other living thing. But, how does a simple molecule determine the form and...
SciShow
9 Weird Ways Animals Communicate
We all know ducks quack, dogs bark, and birds chirp, but that barely scratches the surface of all the amazing ways animals have devised to talk to each other!
SciShow
7 Animals That Evolved at Hyperspeed — Because of Us
Evolution is known to be a long, slow process. But thanks to our interference, some animals have adapted at light speed in order to survive. Chapters 1 CLIFF SWALLOWS 2:45 SPORT FISH 3:04 MOSQUITOES 4:28 TURTLE-HEADED SEA SNAKES 6:09...
SciShow Kids
Why Sea Cows Are Awesome? Animal Science for Kids
Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn all about an amazing aquatic mammal you may not have heard of before: the manatee!
SciShow
Basically Every Mammal Is Good at Swimming... Except Us
From the world’s biggest land animal to a creature built more like a tank than a sub, meet seven mammals that you might not think can swim well, but do! CHAPTERS View all MOOSE 1:33 2 ELEPHANTS 3:21 ARMADILLOS 4:54 CAMELS 5:32 6 SLOTHS 9:03
SciShow Kids
Narwhals: Unicorns of the Sea!
The ocean is full of some amazing creatures, but one that remains a bit of a mystery is the Narwhal, which looks like an underwater unicorn.
TED Talks
Hendrik Poinar: Bring back the woolly mammoth!
It’s the dream of kids all around the world to see giant beasts walk the Earth again. Could -- and should -- that dream be realized? Hendrik Poinar talks about the next big thing: the quest to engineer a creature that looks very much...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Inside the minds of animals - Bryan B Rasmussen
Do animals think? It's a question that has intrigued scientists for thousands of years, inspiring them to come up with different methods and criteria to measure the intelligence of animals. Bryan B Rasmussen navigates through this...
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Saving the Elephants with Carbon Dating
The researchers have found that almost all the illegal ivories are from recent poaching. Meanwhile, humans are not only animals that are farsighted!