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10 Discoveries Made in National Parks
You might think of national parks as a nice place to see a geyser, or a big ol’ canyon, but over the past 100 years, US national parks have produced some of the biggest, oldest, deepest, and creepiest discoveries that have been made in...
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Wolves Have Taken Over a Marine Ecosystem
Wolves are amazing hunters, so they tend to be apex predators wherever you find them...including one region in Alaska where these land-based predators sit atop a marine food web.
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The Parasite That Makes You King
Being infected with a parasite is bad, right? So why are wolves in Yellowstone National Park infected with Toxoplasma gondii some of the most successful individuals
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Why Male Mammoths Lost the Game (w/ TierZoo!)
Woolly mammoths, our favorite ice age proboscidean, disappeared from Europe and North America at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. Today, we’ve teamed up with TierZoo to solve one of the mysteries about these...
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How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
We’re still figuring out the details, but most scientists agree that it took thousands of years of interactions to develop our deep bond with dogs. When did they first become domesticated? Where did this happen? And what did the process...
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The Extreme Hyenas That Didn't Last
Hyenas weren’t always able to eat bones. In fact, only a few million years ago, they lived very different lives.
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The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs
Because of their strange combination of bear-like and dog-like traits, they’re sometimes confusingly called the beardogs. And even though you’ve never met one of these animals, the beardogs are key to understanding the history of an...
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7 New Species Discovered in Cities
Scientists are discovering new species at the bottom of the ocean and deep in the rainforest, but there are also plenty of new animals being discovered in cities around the world!
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Why Are Puppy Eyes So Irresistible?
It’s so easy to forgive a dog, especially when they start with those puppy dog eyes. As it turns out, those puppy dog eyes and the effect they have are no accident and the result of centuries of domestication.
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6 Delightfully Goth Animals
When you see a black cat, you might think of witches and goth bands, but they're also a great example of a melanistic animal, and they're not the only ones!
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Were Dire Wolves Actually Real?
After watching Game of Thrones or playing DND, you might wonder if Dire Wolves were actually real. Turns out, these were real animals that lived during the last Ice Age, but they weren't actually...wolves? Join Hank Green and learn what...
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No, Your Dog Doesn't Think You're the "Alpha"
The toughest, most dominant canine gets the resources and respect - or at least that's the idea that caught on culturally. Turns out, that's not necessarily how it works.
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10 Discoveries Made in National Parks
You might think of national parks as a nice place to see a geyser, or a big ol’ canyon, but over the past 100 years, US national parks have produced some of the biggest, oldest, deepest, and creepiest discoveries that have been made in...
MinuteEarth
Rise Of The Mesopredator🎵 (ft. ScienceWithTom)
Thanks to humans, old school apex predators are struggling to hold onto their perch at the top of the food chain. And now a new class of adaptable mesopredators are remaking the ecosystems they take over....
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Life, Sex & Death Among the Dire Wolves
This is not a Game of Thrones fan fiction episode. Dire wolves were real! And thousands of them died in the same spot in California. Their remains have taught us volumes about how they lived, hunted, died and way more about any animal's...
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No, Your Dog Doesn't Think You're the "Alpha"
The toughest, most dominant canine gets the resources and respect - or at least that's the idea that caught on culturally. Turns out, that's not necessarily how it works.
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SciShow Talk Show: John Roach on Ecology & Freckles the Leopard Gecko
Dr. John Roach joins the Talk Show to talk about his ecological studies and then Jessi brings on Freckles the leopard gecko.
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Why Pets Have Surprisingly Small Brains
The video discusses how domesticated animals have undergone physical changes, particularly in terms of brain size reduction, as a result of long-term partnership with humans.
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These Adorable Wolves Play Fetch – And Defy Dogma | SciShow News
We thought that we taught dogs how to play fetch, but some adorable wolf pups may have just proved us wrong. Also some plants may be immortal?
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Did Dinos Dance? And Other Behavior Questions
Dinosaurs were social animals, moving in herds, hunting in packs, but could they dance?
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6 Delightfully Goth Animals
When you see a black cat, you might think of witches and goth bands, but they're also a great example of a melanistic animal, and they're not the only ones! Chapters MELANISTIC ANIMAL 0:24 PYGMY GRASSHOPPERS 0:48 BLACK PANTHERS 1:53...
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3 Weird Things That Domestication Did to Dogs
There's a lot we don't know about how and when dogs were first domesticated. But we do know that the process made dogs very different from their wild cousins, in some unexpected ways.
MinuteEarth
How to Keep Elephants and Wolves Out of Your Yard
How to Keep Elephants and Wolves Out of Your Yard
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Why Wolves Don't Chirp
Sounds that animals make can be really different, and it turns out that there's a reason why some species communicate with certain sounds.