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When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea
Today, we think of penguins as small-ish, waddling, tuxedo-birds. But they evolved from a flying ancestor, were actual giants for millions of years, and some of them were even dressed a little more casually.
PBS
The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time
The California condor is the biggest flying bird in North America, a title that it has held since the Late Pleistocene Epoch. It's just one example of an organism that we share the planet with today that seems lost in time, out of place...
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How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales
At a site known as Cerro Ballena or Whale Hill, there are more than 40 skeletons of marine mammals -- a graveyard of ocean life dating back 6.5 million to 9 million years ago, in the Late Miocene Epoch. But the identity of the killer...
PBS
When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
The marine reptiles Ichthyosaurs arose after The Great Dying, which wiped out at least 90 percent of life in the oceans, changing the seas forever and triggering a new evolutionary arms race between predator and prey.
SciShow
Man Made Earthquakes and More
Hank hits you with a ton of news this time - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has plans to retrieve Saturn V rocket engines from the bottom of the Atlantic; new research on the impacts from the Deep Water Horizon oil spill to life in the Gulf of...
SciShow
Why You Can't Hear Volcanoes Erupt
Even if a volcano is just a few miles away, you might not hear it erupt. How is that possible? It has to do with a phenomenon known as sound shadows! Hank will tell you all about it in this new episode of SciShow! Join us!
Curated Video
USA: OREGON: STAR OF 'FREE WILLY' ARRIVES IN NEW HOME
Natural Sound
Keiko the killer whale is happily swimming in his new home.
The ailing star of the "Free Willy" movies, got a warm welcome as he arrived at the new home built for him with seven (m) million U-S million in donations from...
SciShow
The World's Most Abundant Mineral, and Oddball Whales
SciShow News takes you to the depths of the Earth, where the world’s most abundant mineral is found, and to the Arabian Sea, where a strange population of whales has been living in isolation for 70,000 years!
SciShow
The Little Lobster That Reveals Climate
Pelagic red crabs are actually lobsters - and that’s not even the weirdest thing about them! They sometimes wash up on shore in droves, signaling large scale climate events like El Niños and serving as a warning to marine biologists of...
TED Talks
TED: How human noise affects ocean habitats | Kate Stafford
Oceanographer Kate Stafford lowers us into the sonically rich depths of the Arctic Ocean, where ice groans, whales sing to communicate over vast distances -- and climate change and human noise threaten to alter the environment in ways we...
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Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
For more than 10 million years, Megalodon was at the top of its game as the oceans' apex predator...until 2.6 million years ago, when it went extinct. So, what happened to the largest shark in history?
SciShow
Weird Things Whales Lost on Their Journey to the Sea
When the ancestor of cetaceans went back into the water some 50 million years ago, it left a few things behind—including the functioning of certain genes that seem like they’d be hard to live without.
TED Talks
Susan Shaw: The oil spill's toxic trade-off
Break down the oil slick, keep it off the shores: that's grounds for pumping toxic dispersant into the Gulf, say clean-up overseers. Susan Shaw shows evidence it's sparing some beaches only at devastating cost to the health of the deep sea.
TED Talks
TED: A census of the ocean | Paul Snelgrove
Oceanographer Paul Snelgrove shares the results of a ten-year project with one goal: to take a census of all the life in the oceans. He shares amazing photos of some of the surprising finds of the Census of Marine Life.
SciShow
Why Are Marine Mammals So Big
Marine mammals are famously large, but why is that? And is there a polar bear-sized sea otter in our future?
SciShow
How Do Marine Mammals Hold Their Breath For So Long?
How is it possible for air-breathing marine mammals like sperm whales and elephant seals to hold their breath for so long?
SciShow
Why Scientists Dumped a Bunch of Dead Alligators in the Ocean
We still don't know a lot about the deep sea, but thanks to the help of three dead alligators, we know more about the diets of some of the creatures that live there.
TED Talks
TED: The intriguing sound of marine mammals | Peter Tyack
Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean.
Curated Video
Protecting Marine Wildlife: Innovative Solutions to Reduce Bycatch Deaths
This video highlights the issue of bycatch in fishing practices and explores innovative solutions to protect marine mammals such as turtles, dolphins, and whales. It showcases the use of LED weights and sound-reflecting gill nets to...
Great Big Story
Behind the Scenes at the Whale Warehouse, A Marine Mammal Treasure
Explore the fascinating, research-focused world of the Natural History Museum's Whale Warehouse, housing over 5,000 marine mammal specimens.
Great Big Story
Kathy Streeter, Revolutionizing Marine Mammal Training
Explore Kathy Streeter's unique, non-food based training methods with seals at the New England Aquarium.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Allison Kaufman - Animal Creativity and Innovation
Allison B. Kaufman, PhD is a research scientist with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, where she also teaches as a adjunct professor in the departments of Marine Biology and Psychology....
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: Research Coordinator
Liam Antrum is a research coordinator at the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, where he advocates for scientific research and coordinates collaborations. He finds excitement in getting out into the sanctuary and conducting...
EarthEcho International
STEM Career Closeup: A Day in the Life of a Marine Biologist and Conservationist
Dr. Kate Charlton-Robb is the Founding Director and Head of Research at the Marine Mammal Foundation. With over 16 years experience researching dolphins across southern Australia, Kate achieved a Bachelor of Science with a double major...