Instructional Video2:31
SciShow

How Do Insects Survive the Winter?

12th - Higher Ed
Birds fly south, humans bundle up, but what do insects do to survive the winter? From creating antifreeze-like alcohols to burrowing in the ground, bugs have a few solutions to carry on.
Instructional Video4:05
SciShow Kids

Build a Beehouse! Science Project for Kids

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks are busy working in their garden, and they'd like to share one trick that keeps their plants happy!
Instructional Video19:53
SciShow

Good Vibrations

12th - Higher Ed
Can you feel them in your fingers? How about in your lungs? Vibrations are all around us, so let’s explore some everyday vibrations!
Instructional Video1:46
SciShow

Why Are Flamingos Pink?

12th - Higher Ed
What makes flamingos go from grey to pink? And can the same thing happen in humans? Quick Questions explains!
Instructional Video5:02
SciShow

Making Plants High-Tech With Artificial Neurons | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Biology and technology grew closer together when scientists manufactured neurons that acted like those in a brain! And birds evolved to protect themselves in two ways: fight and flight.
Instructional Video2:59
SciShow Kids

How Animals Find Their Way Home!

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks are back from their research trip and ready to keep learning with all of you! And on their trip back to The Fort, Jessi thought up a really interesting questions: how do animals find their way home?
Instructional Video2:56
SciShow

Animal Magnetism: How Animals Navigate

12th - Higher Ed
Hank tells us about new research into the question of how animals navigate from place to place - while the problem is still unresolved, we do have some hypotheses, and they all involve something called "magnetoreception."
Instructional Video7:56
SciShow

A Brief History of Life: Rise of the Humans

12th - Higher Ed
With the non-avian dinosaurs extinct, it was time for mammals to take over. Finally, in the tiniest sliver of the history of life, humans emerge.
Instructional Video4:44
SciShow

How Birds Got (And Kept) Their Beaks

12th - Higher Ed
Birds are known for having beaks, however at what point between being a humongous therapod and tiny sparrow did they get them, and why?
Instructional Video10:49
Crash Course

What Are Ecosystems? Crash Course Geography

12th - Higher Ed
Today we're going to take a closer look at ecosystems -- which are communities of living organisms in an area interacting with their environment -- and how this relationship between the amount of energy a place receives and the movement...
Instructional Video5:35
SciShow

We Taught Birds to Sing by Altering Their Brains SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
We can now implant memories into birds’ brains to teach them how to sing, and human fetuses have a couple muscles that disappeared from our adult ancestors over 200 million years ago.
Instructional Video4:10
SciShow

Why Owls Are Night Ninjas

12th - Higher Ed
Equipped with unique adaptations that make them both good at hunting and getting their creep on, owls are totally the ninjas of the bird world.
Instructional Video10:09
PBS

Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest

12th - Higher Ed
The Triassic was full of creatures that look a lot like other, more modern species, even though they're not closely related at all. The reason for this has to do with how evolution works and with the timing of the Triassic itself: when...
Instructional Video4:25
SciShow

Do These Eyes Freak You Out?

12th - Higher Ed
If gigantic googly eyes make you want to run away, it’s because you are responding to a supernormal stimulus. But what is it, and why our brain responds to it?
Instructional Video3:21
SciShow Kids

Animal Tricksters!

K - 5th
Have you ever pretended to be something else? Some animals do too! Learn how animals use mimicry to keep safe, or to sneak a snack!
Instructional Video2:50
SciShow Kids

Why Do Birds Sing? Animal Science for Kids

K - 5th
It's spring where Jessi and Squeaks lives, and that means the air is filled with the sounds of birds singing! But have you ever wondered why birds sing and who they're signing to?
Instructional Video1:47
SciShow

Why Do Birds Sing in the Morning?

12th - Higher Ed
You’re having a dream, and for some reason that giant rabbit that’s about to eat you starts to sing like a bird. You wake up to find that birds are singing outside your window! Check out this SciShow Quick Question to find out why those...
Instructional Video4:26
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: The hidden worlds within natural history museums - Joshua Drew

Pre-K - Higher Ed
When you think of natural history museums, you might picture exhibits filled with ancient lifeless things, like dinosaurs or meteorites. But behind that educational exterior, there are hidden laboratories where scientific breakthroughs...
Instructional Video2:23
MinuteEarth

Why Bird Penises Are So Weird

12th - Higher Ed
Male birds have the largest genital diversity of any class of animals because their sex chromosomes make it easy to pass male-helping mutations down the line. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling...
Instructional Video5:51
SciShow

Is The Mirror Test Just a Reflection of Human Nature?

12th - Higher Ed
The mirror test is supposed to be a way to figure out when an animal is self-aware, but there might be only one particular animal this test works well on: humans.
Instructional Video7:39
Be Smart

Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature?

12th - Higher Ed
Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far between. In this video, we'll look at some very cool butterflies with Bob Robbins, Ph.D. from Smithsonian's...
Instructional Video5:08
TED-Ed

TED-ED: The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins

Pre-K - Higher Ed
In mythological ancient Greece, Icarus flew above Crete on wings made from wax and feathers, defying the laws of man and nature. To witnesses on the ground, he looked like a god, and he felt like one too. But, in his society, the line...
Instructional Video6:10
PBS

How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?

12th - Higher Ed
Part of why we're so fascinated with extinct dinosaurs it's just hard for us to believe that animals that huge actually existed. And yet, they existed! From the Jurassic to the Cretaceous Periods, creatures as tall as a five-story...
Instructional Video12:21
PBS

When Birds Had Teeth

12th - Higher Ed
Experts are still arguing over whether Archaeopteryx was a true bird, or a paravian dinosaur, or some other kind of dino. But regardless of what side you're on, how did this fascinating, bird-like animal relate to today's birds? It turns...