Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Qrius: Adaptations Inside the Insect Zoo
This webcast relates the research being done to understand the adaptations insects and other arthropods make to survive in various conditions. [29:15]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 3
Learn about a variety of interesting pests like how to be a horrible host, rolly pollies with cocktail sauce and who's afraid of a little vole. [2:46]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 4
Learn about a variety of interesting pest stories like why are mice a menace, the three bees, and a spider zombie lunch. [3:09]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 7
Learn about a variety of interesting pest facts like the anatomy of an ant, how to stop a spider from biting and, what makes rat a rat. [2:54]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 14
Three snippets about pests including what it means to be as busy as a carpenter bee, a survivor's tail, and when mice move in! [3:20]
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Behold the Mighty Water Bear
Water bears, also known as tardigrades, can survive boiling, freezing, the vacuum of space and years of desiccation. Biologist Bob Goldstein, of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, describes water bears and explains why he...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Marine Arthropods: A Successful Design
Learn through this video about marine arthropod such as crabs, shrimps, and lobsters. Understand that these animals have jointed appendages that are both strong and flexible which they use for sensing the world, feeding, and moving....
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Terrestrial Arthropods: The Conquerors
A video exploring arthropods which were the first animals to venture onto land and spread over the earth. Their body plan allowed them to diversify and adapt to every environment, including the air, inventing new ways to extract oxygen...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Arthropods: Blue Crab Molting
Did you know an arthropods' exoskeleton must be shed or molted when they grow. This sequence shows how a blue crab must pull its legs and body out of the old shell. [2:24]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Arthropods: Dragonfly Larva Hunts Newt
A video that shows how a dragonfly larva hunts a newt. See how a dragonfly larva stalks prey underwater and catches a newt. [2:06]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Arthropods: Dragonfly Metamorphosis
See a dragonfly's metamorphosis with this video. Watch a dragonfly larva transform into a winged adult. [2:46]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Arthropods: Horseshoe Crab
Learn about how horseshoe crabs mate in the water but lay their eggs in sand. This video shows you how the crab allow their young develop safe from marine predators. [1:23]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Bill Shear, Biologist: How Arthropods Left the Sea
Follow Bill Shear as he investigates how arthropods made the transition to living on land by looking at microfossils preserved along with fossil plants. In this video watch as he extracts tiny fossils by dissolving the rock that they are...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Arthropod Animation: Swiss Army Knife
The blades of the Swiss army knife become the claws, legs, antennae and wings that arthropods evolved to survive on land. [0:52]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Arthropod Locomotion: Engineering
Robert Full is interested in the biomechanics of arthropod movement. Arthropods move low to the ground using their legs in a tripod fashion, which is inherently stable. Their skeleton provides local control over movement. But the secret...
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 1: Episode 23
Three snippets about pests including back to school shell shopping for a spider, pavement ants' home sweet sidewalk, and Japanese Beetles. [3:05]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 2
Learn about a variety of interesting pests like three blind roof rats, a scary-big spider, and buggy make-up! [3:14]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 3
Learn about a variety of interesting insects like icky fly habits, scorpion stings, and baby sow bugs! [3:29]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 5
Learn about a variety of interesting animals like biting centipedes, hungry book lice, and traveling grape moths! [3:43]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 10
Learn about a variety of interesting pests like muddy bugs, busy bees, and skilled scorpions! [3:31]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 16
Learn about a variety of interesting pests like ants, traveling spiders, and the life of a mayfly! [3:30]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 17
Learn about a variety of interesting pest habits like spiders' web-spinning, millipedes' antics, and rats' powerful chompers! [3:35]
National Pest Managment Association
Pest World for Kids: Season 2: Episode 21
Learn about a variety of interesting pests who like growing up underground, spitting spiders, and romantic singing spiders! [3:30]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Skeletal Structure and Function
This video explores the structure and function of the human skeleton in-depth, as well as some animal skeletons. [6:52]