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An Ode to Salps: Our Gelatinous Marine Cousins
Salps are more than just strange balls of goo drifting through the sea—in fact, they’re more closely related to us than they are to jellyfish, and play a huge role in marine ecosystems and the global carbon cycle as the “vacuum cleaners...
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Why Don't Whales Deafen Themselves?
Whales have a lot of the same ear parts as humans, but they are capable of making sounds that could easily shatter a human's eardrums. So why are they seemingly immune from their own sense-shattering sounds?
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Sea Turtles Really DO Carry a (Microscopic) World on Their Backs
Several cultures portray the world as being carried on the back of a giant turtle. As it turns out, sea turtles really do house an entire world on their backs — one of microscopic organisms, that is!
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Basically Every Mammal Is Good at Swimming... Except Us
From the world’s biggest land animal to a creature built more like a tank than a sub, meet seven mammals that you might not think can swim well, but do! CHAPTERS View all MOOSE 1:33 2 ELEPHANTS 3:21 ARMADILLOS 4:54 CAMELS 5:32 6 SLOTHS 9:03
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The Secret of Regeneration in... Alligators
Why can amphibians, fish and even some reptiles regenerate limbs, while birds and mammals can’t? Researchers think they might have found a clue on the tip of the alligator’s tail.
Be Smart
Why Do More Species Live Near The Equator?
Find out why more species live near the equator!
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Why Are Cheetahs the Fastest Land Animal?
Cheetahs are fast. You know this. But which is faster: a cheetah, or a Tyrannosaurus rex?
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Why Can't We Make Spider Silk?
People have been using silkworm silk to make stuff for thousands of years, but spider silk could potentially be even more useful. It's stronger than steel, super stretchy, and could be made into anything from bridge cables to...
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Dangerous Soaps: How Animals Use Surfactants
When you think of surfactants, you might think of soaps, detergents and other man-made chemicals. But it turns out that some other animals utilize their own versions of these sudsy molecules.
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That’s Not a Rattlesnake… It’s an Owl!
When living underground leaves them vulnerable to attack, burrowing owls have a trick up their sleeve—they’ve developed the ability to mimic rattlesnake sounds that scare off predators!
Curated Video
Endangered Antelope Species Slowly Thriving Once Again
In England, a desert antelope has been transferred to the Bedfordshire zoo in an ongoing effort to bring the species back from the brink of extinction. Having traveled from the Aalborg Zoo in Denmark through land and sea, Sabre, a...
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Endangered Red Wolves Receive Dental Treatment to Save the Species
Thanks to some incredible breeding and reintroduction programs, red wolves, the world’s most endangered wolf species, that are native only to the United States, are slowly growing back in numbers. One of these programs, at the Point...
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England Zoo On Mission to Save Family of Lions from Ukraine
In England, the Yorkshire Wildlife Park is on an urgent mission, fighting to bring a lioness and her three cubs to their sanctuary after the family had been abandoned in war-torn Ukraine, traumatized by the sounds of war. But before this...
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World’s Oldest Dog Passes Away at 31-Years-Old
Every dog has its day, as the saying goes, and after 31 years and then some, Bobi’s day finally came. Bobi, the world’s oldest dog passed away in Portugal on Monday, October 23rd, according to Guinness world records. Luckily, this...
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Extinct no more: AI is bringing the dodo back to life (kinda) at a museum in Cambridge
A museum experiment in Cambridge is allowing visitors to have a conversation with a dodo, and other dead animals, with the help of artificial intelligence.
Brave Wilderness
Don't Try this with a Devil!
How dangerous is the Tasmanian Devil? You're probably familiar with your favorite Looney Tunes character Taz... but how much do you know about his real life counterpart? Coyote Peterson and the Brave Wilderness crew head to Aussie Ark in...
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Deuterostomia: The Second Mouth Animals
It took a very long time, but we are finally finished with the clade Protostomia, or first mouths. Now it's time to tackle Deuterostomia, or second mouths, a clade containing only three phyla. This will take some time, since one of those...
Makematic
Lewis and Clark
In the early 1800s, Meriweather Lewis and William Clark charted the vast Louisiana Territory, providing the first maps and detailed documentation of its geography, plants, animals, and Indigenous populations.
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Ecdysozoa: Invertebrates With Cuticles
We spent a lot of time going through the clade Spiralia, as it contains many phyla, but with that complete it's time to move on to its sister clade, Ecdysozoa, the other large category of protostomes. This clade contains most of all the...
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Dian Fossey For Kids
Learn about Dian Fossey, the zoologist who gave her life to studying and helping protect the gorillas of Rwanda.
Professor Dave Explains
Phylum Entoprocta: The Goblet Worms
Moving along through Lophophorata, we arrive at Entoprocta, or the goblet worms. There are only about 150 species of these and almost all of them are marine worms. What are they all about? Let's find out now!