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The Coldest Seas on Earth! | SciShow Kids
The oceans around Antarctica are cold, but full of life. Join Jessi and Squeaks to learn about the blubber of seals, the amazing antifreeze blood of fish, and the shrinking skills of krill.
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There’s a New Biggest Animal (Maybe)
Move over, blue whale! Perucetus colossus, a basilosaurid whale that lived 39 million years ago, may have been the biggest animal ever. It has the heaviest skeleton ever found, which may make it the new largest animal of all time.
MinuteEarth
How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System
While the rest of the world’s megafauna are still foundering in the anthropocene era, these two big animals have used little animal strategies to bounce back. Way back.
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Octopuses Have a Favorite Arm
Most humans might be right-handed, but plenty of other animals have a preferred hand (or whatever they've got instead of hands) too. The more general term is lateralization, and it's found in everything from kangaroos to octopuses.
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How Whale Evolution Kind Of Sucked
Mystacodon is the earliest known mysticete, the group that, today, we call the baleen whales. But if this was a baleen whale, where was its baleen? Where did baleen come from? And how did it live without it?
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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...
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How Ancient Whales May Have Changed the Deep Ocean
It looks like the evolution of ocean-going whales like Borealodon may have affected communities found in the deep ocean, like the ones found around geothermal vents. And it turns out that when a whale dies, that’s just the beginning of...
PBS
The Sudden Rise of the First Colossal Animal
A truly enormous ichthyosaur around the size of a modern sperm whale, reached its size within just a few million years of taking to the water - a blink of an eye in evolutionary time.
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Nautiloids Thrived For 500 Million Years Until These Guys Showed Up
Around 30 million years ago, a new group of predators began to push nautiloids from their former global range into a single remaining refuge. But who were these predators?
Be Smart
Why Don't Big Animals Get More Cancer?
Why do whales, elephants, and other large animals not get cancer? Logically, the larger an animal is, and the longer it lives, the more likely it should be to get cancer. But these giants don’t. Why is that? And can the answer help...
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Whale Poop Helps Cool Our Planet
You might not think of a sea creature as helpful in the prevention of climate change, but sperm whales have been doing their part to cool the planet by doing what most animals do best: pooping.
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The First Extinction of 2019 Has Already Happened | SciShow News
On New Year's day, we said goodbye to George the Snail, marking the first extinction of 2019, and the way things are looking, it won't be the last.
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Why Animals Take Care of Other Animals' Young
Did you know that some species take care of young that are not their own? This surprising practice is called alloparenting, and it’s been observed in animals from otters, like Rosa and Selka, to birds to baboons!
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They're Breaking the Species Barrier
There are wild hybridizations happening all the time! Here are five weird and wild hybrids that aren't just cool but could teach us something too. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) 0:00 Intro 1:06 Arctic Oddballs 3:43 Bouncing Baby Bears...
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7 Species That Were Saved From Extinction
Humans are pretty good at destroying things. Like habitats, animal populations... you catch my drift. But, there have been a few species that humans have helped bring back from the brink of extinction.
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How Giant Creatures Eat Tiny Meals: 5 Fabulous Filter Feeders
Some of the largest creatures that have ever lived on earth thrive by eating tiny prey. Why don’t they eat bigger fish, and how can they even consume these things they can barely see? Here are 5 creatures that grow to be giants by eating...
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9 Weird Ways Animals Communicate
We all know ducks quack, dogs bark, and birds chirp, but that barely scratches the surface of all the amazing ways animals have devised to talk to each other!
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Scientists Had Some Bad Ideas | Scishow Quiz Show
Two YouTube musicians battle it out to see who shall sing a song of victory.
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How Climate Change Affects Ocean Life | Compilation
We can see the effects of the climate crisis in many different ways here on land. But the oceans are also part of the interconnected, global system. So, here are a few ways that climate change affects our oceanic buddies.
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Where Are A Whale's Nipples?
Like dolphins, manatees, and other marine mammals, whales have nipples hidden in surprising places.
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Blue Whales: The Biggest Animal EVER! | SciShow Kids
Did you know that the biggest animal that ever lived is still alive today? Let's learn all about what blue whales eat, where they live, and just how big they are, with Jessi and Squeaks!
TED Talks
TED: What a living whale is worth -- and why the economy should protect nature | Ralph Chami
How much is one living blue whale worth in the fight against climate change? A lot more than you may think, says financial economist Ralph Chami. He explains the value of bringing the language of dollars and cents to conservation -- and...
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The tough decision of which species to save from extinction
Roughly 1 million species of wildlife face extinction worldwide, according to a recent United Nations report. Ecologist and author Rebecca Nesbit joins Geoff Bennett to discuss the ethics and decision-making process behind figuring out...