PBS
How Dinosaurs Coupled Up
Dinosaur mating behavior has been the subject of a lot of speculation, but what can we actually say about it from the fossil record?
PBS
How Chilis Got Spicy (and Why We Love the Burn)
Today, chilis are the most widely cultivated spice crop in the world - grown everywhere from their native home in the Americas to Europe, Africa, and Asia. But how and why did chilis evolve this weird, fiery trick in the first place? And...
PBS
The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
In 1964, a paleontologist named John Ostrom unearthed some fascinating fossils from the mudstone of Montana. Its discovery set the stage for what’s known today as the Dinosaur Renaissance, a total re-thinking of what we thought we knew...
PBS
The (Ovi)Raptor That Paleontologists Got Wrong
Paleontologists found a small theropod dinosaur skull right on top of a nest of eggs that were believed to belong to a plant-eating dinosaur. Instead of being the nest robbers that they were originally thought to be, raptors like this...
PBS
How Vertebrates Got Teeth... And Lost Them Again
As revolutionary as teeth were, they would go on to disappear in some groups of vertebrates. But why?
Be Smart
The Science of Iridescence
Why do we see rainbows in soap bubbles? What makes an oil slick so oddly beautiful? Iridescent colors, which transform depending on the angle you look at them, are all over nature. How does physics make these shifting rainbows? We’re...
Be Smart
Where Do Birds Go In Winter?
As winter approaches, V-shaped flocks glide overhead as the world's birds begin their long treks to warmer climates. Humans used to have some pretty crazy theories about where birds went for winter, like the moon, or to the bottom of the...
Be Smart
Why Don't Birds Lay Square Eggs?
What is ”egg-shaped” even? I used to think it was the shape of a chicken egg. Then one day I saw a collection of eggs from lots of different bird species, and I realized just how many different kind of egg shapes there really are! I had...
PBS
Navigating with Quantum Entanglement
We often think of quantum mechanics as only affecting only the smallest scales of reality, with classical reality taking over at some intermediate level. But in his 1944 book, What is Life?, the quantum physicist Erwin Schrödinger...
TED Talks
TED: Birds aren't real? How a conspiracy takes flight | Peter McIndoe
Peter McIndoe isn't a fan of birds. In fact, he has a theory about them that might shock you. Listen along to this eye-opening talk as it takes a turn and makes a larger point about conspiracies, truth and belonging in divisive times.
TED Talks
TED: The climate crisis is expensive -- here's who should pay for it | Avinash Persaud
The developing world is most affected by climate change but has contributed the least to the problem. Meanwhile, rich countries historically exacerbated the environmental crisis and grew wealthy as a result -- but aren't helping...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can alligators survive this apex predator? | Kenny Coogan
Despite alligators ruling the swamplands of the Everglades for millennia, the last 500 years have brought deadly new predators that challenge their reign. And the origins of these international invaders are just as unexpected as their...
SciShow
What Do Parrots Think They’re Saying?
You ever see a parrot mimicking humans words, and wonder if they really get what they're talking about? They're smarter than they look - there's a lot of meaning in every squawk and chirp that parrots make. Not bad for a bird brain.
SciShow
Will Climate Change Turn More Reptiles Female?
We hear all the time about the ways that climate change could disrupt the world. But thanks to a quirk of reptile biology called temperature-based sex determination, it could also mean a surge in the numbers of female reptiles.
SciShow
Animals Have Grammar Too - A Little Birdie Told Us
If you hear birds chirping in the trees, you might not think much of the different sounds you're hearing. But as it turns out, those tweets and chirps have a lot more in common with some of our complicated rules of grammar than you might...
SciShow
These Birds Smell Like Tangerines
On remote, rocky North Pacific islands, you may find a cute little bird that just so happens to smell like tangerines.
SciShow
These Beetles Are Bright and Shiny… For Camouflage
Jewel beetles are pretty eye-catching with their glossy, bright coloration. But if you were a small creature that needed to avoid predators, you might think that eye-catching is the last thing you'd want to be. But it turns out that...
SciShow
The Real Reason Peppers are Spicy
SciShow’s hot take: Peppers don’t produce that spicy goodness for the reason you think!
SciShow
The Oldest Known Animal May Be a Weird, Fleshy Oval | SciShow News
Dickinsonia might be the oldest known member of the animal kingdom, and the origin of birdsongs from the syrinx might be a little less mysterious.
SciShow
Record-Breaking Discoveries of 2016!
It’s been a pretty cool year for science around the globe, and we here at SciShow like to highlight the superlatives: some of the biggest, oldest, fastest, and most amazing discoveries of 2016.
SciShow
North America’s Destructive, Invasive… Earthworms
Earthworms may be good for your garden, but they also have the potential to disrupt forest ecosystems across much of North America.
SciShow
Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
SciShow takes you inside the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster to show you how, nearly 30 years later, life has adapted and persisted.
SciShow
Bird Eggs Warn Each Other About Danger
Although they don’t seem like the talkative type, recent research suggests that bird eggs can use vibrations to relay warnings about the outside world to their nest-mates.
SciShow
5 Strange Cases of Animal Rain
You might want a really sturdy umbrella to dig into this video, because we’re discussing 5 animals that have a tendency to rain down from the sky and the reasons we think this might be happening!