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Npr: Peering Inside Fossils
"A scanning device most commonly seen in hospitals is reshaping the science of paleontology by allowing researchers to peer inside irreplaceable fossils without damaging them." Find out what scientists are now able to see that they've...
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Here's What Contributed to the Extinction of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed moving 23 animals and plants off the endangered species list, declaring them extinct. Perhaps the most well-known of the species deemed gone forever is the ivory-billed woodpecker. These...
SciShow
Sci Show: Mass Extinctions
Hank takes us on a trip through time to revisit the five major mass extinction events that have impacted species over the Earth's history, and leaves us with some thoughts about what could possibly be the sixth event - the one caused by...
Crash Course
Crash Course History of Science #19: Biology Before Darwin
You've probably heard of Charles Darwin, but how did scientists before him form their theories about life, evolution, and extinction? Learn how different people in the seventeenth and eighteenth century tried to answer the question -...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Mass Extinction
Presentation of an emerging theory that explains the mass extinction of life that occurred at the end of the Permian period. [4:51]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biodiversity and Extinction, Then and Now
How common is species extinction? Some is always happening. But over geologic time, biodiversity has increased despite several mass extinction events. Humans are now driving a mass extinction of biodiversity. [12:21]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Classical Conditioning: Extinction, Spontaneous Recovery, Generalization
This video [5:34] discusses the concepts of classical conditioning [repeated over time], generalization, extinction [used to rid of fears, and spontaneous recovery.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Modern Extinctions
Climate, pollution, loss of habitat -- what are the leading causes of modern extinctions?
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Extinctions From Algae?
Many scientists attribute the world's great extinction events to major catastrophes such as asteroid strikes and massive volcanic eruptions. We'll talk with researchers exploring an alternate theory - that massive algal blooms led to...
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Npr: Paper Casts Doubt on Dinosaur Death Theory
Some scientists are challenging the conventional wisdom that dinosaurs abruptly disappeared because of a huge crater created by an extraterrestrial impact in the Gulf of Mexico. Find out about this challenge and what they're saying about...
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Npr: Digging for Dinosaurs in Antarctica
Did dinosaurs once survive on Antarctica, the most remote and inhospitable place on earth? This concise site provides the answer.
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Speciation and Extinction
Paul Andersen details the evolutionary processes of speciation and extinction. Stickleback evolution in Lake Loberg is used as example of rapid speciation. Adaptive radiation is illustrated using the Hawaiian honeycreeper. A brief...
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Npr: Four Winged Dinosaur Discovered
NPR reports on a team of Chinese paleontologists that discovered the fossilized remains of a small flying dinosaur with four wings.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: 10 Amazing Dinosaur Facts
Provides 10 dinosaur facts you might not know.
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Npr: A Guinea Pig the Size of a Horse
This site is provided for by National Public Radio. A seven foot tall rodent that weighs nearly one ton seems like something out of the movies, but researchers have found a skeleton of a rodent the size of a horse. Read about this...