Instructional Video3:22
SciShow

Why Do Fish School?

12th - Higher Ed
You might think that fish ride the undercurrents with all their buds to avoid the hungry mouths of predators - safety in numbers, right? But, it turns out, there’s more to consider when asking why fish swim in schools.
Instructional Video3:41
SciShow Kids

Why Don’t Animals Need Sunscreen?

K - 5th
You should always wear sunscreen when you're playing outside, but you may have noticed that animals are outside all the time and they don't need sunscreen. Why?
Instructional Video17:34
TED Talks

TED: How computers are learning to be creative | Blaise Aguera y Arcas

12th - Higher Ed
We're on the edge of a new frontier in art and creativity -- and it's not human. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, principal scientist at Google, works with deep neural networks for machine perception and distributed learning. In this captivating...
Instructional Video8:55
SciShow

5 Toxins Animals Steal For Themselves

12th - Higher Ed
Thievery is a known survival strategy in the wild. But you couldn’t steal a toxin...or could you? Meet 5 animals that turn someone else’s poison into their own weapon of choice. PORE-FORMING TOXINS 0:50 BIRDS-FOOT TREFOIL 2:45 SIX-SPOT...
Instructional Video5:08
SciShow

Counting Species out of Thin Air

12th - Higher Ed
Recent proof-of-concept studies showed that researchers were able to survey animals in an area simply by vacuuming up DNA in the air.
Instructional Video15:43
SciShow Kids

Our Favorites | Compilation

K - 5th
Jessi and Squeaks are packing up for a long trip, but before saying goodbye, wanted to share some of their favorite videos.
Instructional Video4:16
SciShow Kids

Name That Poop!

K - 5th
Poop: it's gross... it's funny... it's educational?! Join Jessi and learn all about how you can observe poop in your neighborhood to figure out what kinds of animals live near you! Just don't touch it!
Instructional Video11:03
SciShow

Animal Melodies: 5 of Nature’s Sweetest Singers

12th - Higher Ed
Humans are known to carry a tune, but we're hardly the only animals that sing. In fact we've got five of nature's finest singers, and what makes them so unique. Chapters View all BIRDS 1:17 BATS 3:26 FRUIT FLIES 5:18 MICE AND RATS 7:09...
Instructional Video6:20
SciShow

Slowly Solving the Mystery of Turtle Origins

12th - Higher Ed
The origin story of turtles is a mystery that has perplexed many for centuries, but thanks to more recent studies, we might be one step closer to figuring out their lineage.
Instructional Video2:41
SciShow

Why Don't Humans Have a Mating Season?

12th - Higher Ed
Unlike lots of other animals, there’s no such thing as the “mating season” for humans, and it might have to do with how we raise our kids.
Instructional Video2:55
MinuteEarth

Are Any Animals Truly Monogamous?

12th - Higher Ed
In the animal kingdom, monogamy is rare and cheating is common, even among seemingly faithful species like the superb fairy wrens. This video explores the biological reasons behind infidelity in birds, highlighting how mating strategies...
Instructional Video4:02
SciShow

The World's Bird Poop Obsession

12th - Higher Ed
Here's something to think about the next time you clean your windshield.
Instructional Video2:27
SciShow

These Birds Smell Like Tangerines

12th - Higher Ed
On remote, rocky North Pacific islands, you may find a cute little bird that just so happens to smell like tangerines.
Instructional Video3:45
SciShow

Could Dinosaurs Have Been Warm-Blooded?

12th - Higher Ed
For a long time, scientists have debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded. Turns out, they were probably somewhere in between.
Instructional Video5:44
SciShow

A Very Handy Fish Fossil

12th - Higher Ed
This week, scientists discover something in a fish fossil that might give us a hand in finding our earliest land-dwelling ancestors.
Instructional Video11:08
SciShow

What We've Learned from Fossilized Farts

12th - Higher Ed
We tend to think of fossils as dinosaur bones or petrified wood, but what if we told you that there's a lot we can learn from fossilized waste?
Instructional Video3:18
SciShow

The Terrifying Promise of Robot Bugs

12th - Higher Ed
Imitating nature to build a better (or possibly more terrifying) future. We've been trying to build flapping-wing robots for hundreds of years, and now, ornithopters are finally being developed, and may be used mostly for military...
Instructional Video2:58
SciShow

Seeing Sick Birds Boosts Canaries’ Immune Responses

12th - Higher Ed
Unlike humans, domestic canaries don’t have the option of social distancing when one of their own is ill. But canaries may have evolved a nifty workaround for protecting their populations when disease strikes!
Instructional Video11:11
SciShow

7 Nests That Will Change How You Think of Birds

12th - Higher Ed
There are estimated to be over 18,000 different bird species with a wide variety of nest shapes and sizes. From teeny, adorable cups to massive compost mounds, the diversity of birds’ nests is definitely impressive. Chapters 1 BALD...
Instructional Video4:56
SciShow

Why Aren't Mammals More Colorful

12th - Higher Ed
Why Aren't Mammals More Colorful
Instructional Video5:29
SciShow

Why Billions of Passenger Pigeons Died in Under a Century

12th - Higher Ed
How could the most abundant bird in North America go extinct so quickly? Short answer: us.
Instructional Video2:47
SciShow

The Northern Hemisphere’s Very Own Giant Penguins (Sort Of)

12th - Higher Ed
Today, penguins are found mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. But fossils have revealed giant lookalikes to these swimming birds further up north, spurring questions of how they evolved and what happened to them.
Instructional Video4:23
TED-Ed

TED-ED: How do we know what color dinosaurs were? - Len Bloch

Pre-K - Higher Ed
The microraptor was a four-winged carnivorous dinosaur with iridescent black feathers. But if our information about this dinosaur comes from fossils, how can we be certain about its color? Len Bloch shows how making sense of the evidence...
Instructional Video4:59
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Why is Aristophanes called "The Father of Comedy"? - Mark Robinson

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Aristophanes, often referred to as the Father of Comedy, wrote the world's earliest surviving comic dramas. They're stuffed full of parodies, songs, sexual jokes and surreal fantasy -- and they've shaped how comedy's been written and...