SciShow
How Do Insects Survive the Winter?
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.
SciShow Kids
Build a Beehouse! Science Project for Kids
Jessi and Squeaks are busy working in their garden, and they'd like to share one trick that keeps their plants happy!
SciShow
Good Vibrations
Can you feel them in your fingers? How about in your lungs? Vibrations are all around us, so let’s explore some everyday vibrations!
SciShow
Why Are Flamingos Pink?
What makes flamingos go from grey to pink? And can the same thing happen in humans? Quick Questions explains!
SciShow
Making Plants High-Tech With Artificial Neurons | SciShow News
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.
SciShow Kids
How Animals Find Their Way Home!
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?
SciShow
Animal Magnetism: How Animals Navigate
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."
SciShow
A Brief History of Life: Rise of the Humans
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.
SciShow
How Birds Got (And Kept) Their Beaks
Birds are known for having beaks, however at what point between being a humongous therapod and tiny sparrow did they get them, and why?
Crash Course
What Are Ecosystems? Crash Course Geography
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...
SciShow
We Taught Birds to Sing by Altering Their Brains SciShow News
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.
SciShow
Why Owls Are Night Ninjas
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.
PBS
Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
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...
SciShow
Do These Eyes Freak You Out?
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?
SciShow Kids
Animal Tricksters!
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!
SciShow Kids
Why Do Birds Sing? Animal Science for Kids
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?
SciShow
Why Do Birds Sing in the Morning?
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...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The hidden worlds within natural history museums - Joshua Drew
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...
MinuteEarth
Why Bird Penises Are So Weird
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...
SciShow
Is The Mirror Test Just a Reflection of Human Nature?
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.
Be Smart
Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature?
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...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: The myth of Icarus and Daedalus - Amy Adkins
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...
PBS
How Did Dinosaurs Get So Huge?
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...
PBS
When Birds Had Teeth
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...