PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Permian Triassic Extinction
In this video segment from Evolution: "Extinction!", geologist Peter Ward discusses evidence for a Permian-Triassic mass extinction. [2 min, 20 sec]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Chronometric Revolution: Measuring Age on Earth
The revolutions of chronometry, the study of time, with respect to measuring time on Earth from forms of writing to radioactivity. [9:54]
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Paleobiology Unearthing Fossil Whales
A webcast features a paleontologist who presents the data that can be collected by fossil whales. [29:15]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Grand Canyon: The Top Two Rock Layers
This brief video segment adapted from NOVA uses illustrations and the well-preserved footprints of a small reptile to portray the history of the Grand Canyon's top two rock layers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How We Proved an Asteroid Wiped Out the Dinosaurs
Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery. [7:28]
PBS
Pbs Kids Clubhouse Adventures: Clubhouse Expert: Geologist, Dr. Franek Hasiuk
In this video [2:05] you will meet expert Dr. Franek Hasiuk, a geologist who teaches kids about all kinds of rocks, minerals and fossils found on planet Earth. Kids will discover stalactites, amber and geodes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dinosaur Train: All About Fossils
In this Dinosaur Train clip, Mr. Conductor explains what fossils are and how they are created, and Dr. Scott the Paleontologist disuccses how paleontologists find, care for, and conduct research with the fossils they uncover. [2:06]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Paleontology: New Evidence Revises Thinking, Anomalocaris
It sometimes takes years and many mistakes to piece together an entire animal. Collins uses Anomalocaris as an example of the long complicated process. Several fossil pieces of Anomalocaris were originally identified as entirely...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Paleontology: Paleontologists Study Fossils
A single location, the Burgess Shale, in the Canadian Rockies has revealed thousands of fossils that tell a story of an ancient explosion of animal life, called the Cambrian Explosion. [5:05]
SciShow
Sci Show Kids: Dig in to Paleontology
A short video exploring how paleontologist use fossils to learn information about Earth's history and animals that once existed. [4:11]
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #20: Evolution It's a Thing
Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization. [11:44]
NPR: National Public Radio
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...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Paleontology: Paleontologists Study Tracks and Traces
Jenny Clack visits a site with fossilized tracks of an early tetrapod. She and her assistant hypothesize about what the animal was doing around 370 million years ago. [8:22]
Crash Course
Crash Course History of Science #20: Earth Science
How did scientists figure out the age of the earth? Trace the history of Earth Science and the developments scientists made in determining the earth's geologic eras. Scientists asked such questions like, what's up with fossils? Are they...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Evolution: Fossils: Rocking the Earth
Use fossils, like clues buried inside of rocks, to unlock the history of life on our planet. Play the Evolution Lab: http://www.pbs.org/nova/labs/lab/evolution/
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Don Johanson Lucy's Legacy
Ira talks with paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, co-discoverer of the 'Lucy' fossil.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Oldest Fossil Brain Discovered
Scientists have found a 300 million year old fossil shark ancestor with an unusual feature -- fossilized brain tissue within the creature's skull.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Largest Snake
Researchers have found fossil remains of a species of snake that they say weighed 2500 pounds, and grew to 45 feet long.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Fossils: Lesson 1
This lesson will explain how fossils can be used to determine evolutionary relationships. It is 1 of 6 in the series titled "Fossils."
Other
Science With Tom: Fossil Rock Anthem
Party Rock Anthem has been fossilized! Get some facts about fossils with this fun music parody. [3:15]
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Evidence of Common Ancestry & Diversity
In this video, Paul Andersen describes several types of evidence for common ancestry. This evidence is contained in the fossils, embryos and molecules of living organisms. Even though life on our planet is incredibly diverse there are...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Evidence for Evolution
Paul Andersen lists major evidence for the existence of evolution. He begins with a discussion of Charles Darwin and the evidence that he presented in the Origin of Species, including biogeography, fossils, and homologies. He also...
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Evidence for Evolution Ii
Paul Andersen describes pieces of evidence that Charles Darwin used to support the idea of evolution and his process of natural selection. He begins with the following evidence use in the Origin of Species; artificial selection,...
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: New Fossil Find
New fossil finds shake up the human family tree.