Sophia Learning
Sophia: Fossils
This lesson provides a timeline of fossils while also discussing the different types, locations, and geology of various fossils. [4:13]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: The Story of the Animal Kingdom: Chordates: We're All Family
A video describing an amphioxus, a worm-like animal, that is our ancestor with numerous common features including the precursor to the vertebrate backbone. Learn how some chordates like tunicates, salps, and larvaceans, have remained...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Jenny Clack, Paleontologist: The First Vertebrate Walks on Land
Investigate with a paleontologist, Jenny Clack, who wants to find the transitional form between fish and land vertebrates or tetrapods. She spent years teasing a fossil from its rock and studying the fish-like animal that shows evolution...
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: Introduction: A New View of the Evolution of Animals
The scientific fields of paleontology, embryology, anatomy, and genetics have all contributed to a new view of the evolution of the animal kingdom. [3:42]
Sea Studios Foundation
Shape of Life: The Story of the Animal Kingdom: Ultimate Animal
We think that humans are at the top of the evolutionary ladder. But is being big, brainy, and fast the best design? Evolution has produced many animals with different approaches to life. Every animal is uniquely adapted to win at the...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr Videos: Skunk Bear: Why Dogs Have Floppy Ears: An Animated Tale
This question vexed Darwin. Has domestication caused evolutionary changes in the ears of pets and livestock? The neural crest cell theory suggests one possible answer. [3:35]