Curated Video
Floodwaters killing oysters, pushing out sea life
Floodwaters from the Midwest continue to head south, keeping the Mississippi River at flood levels with no clear indication of when the high river levels will begin to fall – and sea life depending on a certain amount of salinity in the...
Curated Video
Floodwaters killing oysters, pushing out sea life
Floodwaters from the Midwest continue to head south, keeping the Mississippi River at flood levels with no clear indication of when the high river levels will begin to fall – and sea life depending on a certain amount of salinity in the...
Curated Video
Pivotal times for famous Chesapeake Bay oysters
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AFP News Agency
VOICED : Chesapeake Bay oysters make a comeback
VOICED : Chesapeake Bay oysters make a comeback
Curated Video
Gadget filled garments wow the tech crowd
LEADIN : Futuristic gadget filled garments are wowing the tech crowd at the Fashion Tech conference in Berlin. STORYLINEThe fast paced worlds of fashion and technology are colliding in Berlin. The designers showcasing their stylish...
Curated Video
Ducks - a new type of pest control for vineyards
SOUTH AFRICA: DUCK PARADESOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 5:36SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionStellenbosch, South Africa – 10...
Curated Video
Ducks - a new type of pest control for vineyards
SOUTH AFRICA: DUCK PARADESOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 5:36SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionStellenbosch, South Africa – 10...
PBS
How the Squid Lost Its Shell
The ancestors of squid and octopus used shells as a form of defense. Pupils learn how cephalopods evolved without shells and the adaptations required to survive without one. Viewers learn how scientists know about these changes and the...
The Brain Scoop
The Magneto Snail! (And Other Marine Gastropods)
Snails range from 0.5 mm to 61 cm long. The video explains the huge variety of snails crawling the earth. It includes snails with iron shells, snails that are venomous, and even snails that collect other snails! It highlights the unique...
FuseSchool
Animal Classification
So many animals, so many characteristics—how do we classify them all? A short tour of taxonomy awaits within a helpful Fuse School video on Evolution. Science scholars see how scientists sort animals into the main classes and what traits...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Molluscs: Blue Ringed Octopus Warning Coloration
Did you know that a blue-ringed octopus has bright blue ring patterning on its body that it flashes to warn off predators? View this video showing how the octopus warns about its very poisonous venom. [0:59]
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #22: Simple Animals Sponges, Jellies & Octopuses
Hank introduces us to the "simplest" of the animals, complexity-wise: beginning with sponges (whose very inclusion in the list as "animals" has been called into question because they are so simple) and finishing with the most complex...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Molluscs: Nautilus Regulates Its Buoyancy
A nautilus' shell, when x-rayed, reveals the many chambers, which the nautilus uses to regulate buoyancy as it moves up and down in the ocean. Observe this process with this video! [1:54]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Molluscs: Pycnopodia Chases Abalone
A many-armed sun star hunts an abalone. The abalone twists and turns using its foot and escapes. [2:16]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Geerat Vermeij, Evolutionary Biologist: Reading a Shell's Story
A video exploring the shells of a mollusc. See Geerat Vermeij observe, with his fingers, mollusc defense strategies as revealed by the design of their shells. For him, shell defense design is analogous to aircraft designed to protect...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Peter Ward, Paleontologist: The Ancient Nautilus
Watch the adventures of Peter Ward in this video. As a paleontologist Peter Ward studied fossil nautiloids for years before he went to New Caledonia to see and trap living nautiloids. He's interested in the adaptations that allowed this...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Mollusc Animation: Abalone
The abalone demonstrates the basic body plan of molluscs. A foot is used for movement. A radula is a scraping tongue, and a mantle secretes the shell. [1:22]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Mollusc Animation: Shell Repair
The mantle deposits calcium into a protein matrix to make the shell. The inner crystalline structure prevents cracks from breaking the shell, and the mantle continually repairs the shell from the inside. [1:32]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Molluscs: The Survival Game
An animation showing that molluscs' basic body plan includes a foot for mobility; a mantle that secretes a shell and a radula for eating. Learn that molluscs today show many variations on this original body plan. An abalone escapes a sea...