Instructional Video7:25
SciShow Kids

Penguins, Birds That Fly in Water! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Squeaks and Jessi are learning all about the animals that live at the bottom of the world, including penguins - emperor penguins, macaroni penguins, and more! We learn why penguins look like they're all dressed up, and what kind of food...
Instructional Video5:18
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: How advanced is whale talk? | David Gruber and Shane Gero

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Soon after whaling ships began operating in the North Pacific, an interesting trend emerged. Within just a few years, whalers saw a 58% drop in their successful strikes. Sperm whales had suddenly become harder to kill— they had begun...
Instructional Video7:21
PBS

Where Are All The Squid Fossils?

12th - Higher Ed
It might surprise you but cephalopods have a pretty good fossil record, with one major exception. If squids were swimming around in the same oceans as their closest cousins, where did all the squids go?
Instructional Video5:38
SciShow

This Squid Glows… To Make Itself Invisible

12th - Higher Ed
When you live in the ocean, it can be hard to find ways to keep hidden from predators, or from your own prey. But these three animals have found clever ways to stay hidden, by using light to their advantage. One of them even /makes...
Instructional Video2:28
SciShow

Nature’s Secret Weapon Against Microbes: Squid Skin

12th - Higher Ed
There's a compound found in squid skin that they use to change color and protect their cells, but it could also help us fight some of the most common disease-causing microbes out there.
Instructional Video4:20
SciShow

The Carbon Impact of the World’s Largest Mass Migration

12th - Higher Ed
Thanks to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and their research and technology partner MBARI for partnering with us on this episode of SciShow. They worked together on an exhibition, “Into The Deep: Exploring Our Undiscovered Ocean,” to give...
Instructional Video5:30
SciShow

Cephalopods Have a Totally Wild Way of Adapting

12th - Higher Ed
With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s resident aliens. But researchers have discovered yet another thing that separates them from most other animals on...
Instructional Video4:08
SciShow Kids

How Animals Fly! | The Science of Flight | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
As Squeaks continues to prepare for his big trip with Jessi, Mr. Brown helps him learn all about different kinds of wings and how they help animals and machines fly!
Instructional Video2:32
SciShow

Nature’s Secret Weapon Against Microbes: Squid Skin

12th - Higher Ed
There's a compound found in squid skin that they use to change color and protect their cells, but it could also help us fight some of the most common disease-causing microbes out there.
Instructional Video19:36
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: Katelyn Salem vs. Hank Green

12th - Higher Ed
Welcome back to SciShow Quiz Show! Katelyn Salem of Kate Tectonics competes against Googleable internet sensation, Hank Green.
Instructional Video8:31
PBS

How the Squid Lost Its Shell

12th - Higher Ed
The ancestors of modern, squishy cephalopods like the octopus and the squid all had shells. In ancient times, their shell was their greatest asset but it eventually proved to be their biggest weakness.
Instructional Video3:02
SciShow Kids

What Is Squid Ink?

K - 5th
Our friend the Giant Squid inspired a SciShow Kids viewer to write us and ask, 'What is squid ink, and can you write with it?' Jessi has the answers!
Instructional Video5:33
SciShow

Cephalopods Have a Totally Wild Way of Adapting

12th - Higher Ed
With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s resident aliens. But researchers have discovered yet another thing that separates them from most other animals on Earth!
Instructional Video4:03
SciShow

Moon dust tricky squid and the worlds biggest telescope

12th - Higher Ed
Hank explains the enormity of the Giant Magellan Telescope, possibly the biggest telescope ever built, as well as updates about NASA's new mission to the moon, and an unusual discovery about the habits of deep-sea squid.
Instructional Video11:17
SciShow

5 of the Coolest Partnerships Between Animals and Bacteria

12th - Higher Ed
This Valentine’s Day, send a little love to your bacterial buddies! Our microbes keep us healthy, but some bacteria give their animal companions superpowers, like immunity to poison, or even invisibility!
Instructional Video4:38
TED-Ed

These squids can fly... no, really | Robert Siddall

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In 1947, explorers noticed a strange phenomenon while crossing the Pacific Ocean. Somehow, small squid known to live deep beneath the waves kept appearing on the roof of their boat. The crew was mystified— until they saw the squids...
Instructional Video7:13
SciShow

Secrets of the Vampire Squid

12th - Higher Ed
This week in SciShow News, Hank tells us about some weird science, including a squid that's not a squid, animals that can talk, and new insights into how you can mess up your body much faster and for much longer than you ever thought...
Instructional Video4:58
SciShow

What Squids and Frogs Taught Us About How Brain Cells Talk

12th - Higher Ed
Back in the early days of neuroscience, we didn't study the animals you might expect to learn about how brain cells communicate.
Instructional Video5:22
TED Talks

TED: Underwater astonishments | David Gallo

12th - Higher Ed
David Gallo shows jaw-dropping footage of amazing sea creatures, including a color-shifting cuttlefish, a perfectly camouflaged octopus, and a Times Square's worth of neon light displays from fish who live in the blackest depths of the...
Instructional Video3:13
SciShow

The Story of the World's Favorite Fossil

12th - Higher Ed
What is the world's favorite fossil? Why the orthoceras of course! Hank will tell why that is in this episode of SciShow. Find out how you can get your very own orthoceras fossil.
Instructional Video4:41
Be Smart

Cuttlefish: Tentacles In Disguise

12th - Higher Ed
Now you "sea" them, now you don't! Cuttlefish are more than the chameleons of the sea, these cephalopods take camouflage to a whole new level.
Instructional Video12:39
TED Talks

TED: The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence | Edith Widder

12th - Higher Ed
In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating and self-defense. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder was one of the first to film this glimmering world. At TED2011, she brings some of her glowing...
Instructional Video3:11
SciShow

How Science Solved the Giant Eyeball Mystery

12th - Higher Ed
Hank combines two of his favorite things - talking to scientists and strange things washing up on the beach - to bring you the Mystery of the Giant Eyeball.
Instructional Video11:18
SciShow

SciShow Quiz Show: Weird Water Creatures & Spontaneous Combustion!

12th - Higher Ed
SciShow Quiz Show is back, with familiar faces Hank Green and Caitlin Hofmeister battling it out over questions on water, fire, and computer science!