Instructional Video2:49
SciShow

Chimera Cats and Your Mom

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks about chimeras, and why Venus the cat probably isn't one - but your mom might be!
Instructional Video10:04
SciShow

5 Animals With Superpowered Senses

12th - Higher Ed
From the ability to see “invisible” types of light to the power to taste all over their body, meet five incredible animals whose super senses far surpass our own! Hosted by: Michael Aranda
Instructional Video3:15
SciShow

The Truth About Dog Years (Your Pupper Is Older Than You Think!)

12th - Higher Ed
You might have heard that one year in a dog’s life is equivalent to seven in a human’s. But it turns out that the real ratio is both higher AND lower—depending on your dog’s current age.
Instructional Video8:46
SciShow

9 Weird Ways Animals Communicate

12th - Higher Ed
We all know ducks quack, dogs bark, and birds chirp, but that barely scratches the surface of all the amazing ways animals have devised to talk to each other!
Instructional Video3:15
SciShow

Some Mammals Can Just… Pause Pregnancy

12th - Higher Ed
We generally think of pregnancy as a continuous process, but scientists have recently discovered mechanisms that allow for certain mammals to put the development of a fetus on pause.
Instructional Video2:32
SciShow

Is the Y Chromosome Disappearing?

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists know that the Y chromosome has been shrinking in size over millions of years, but recent studies suggest that it has more important genes, besides the ones that cause biological maleness. Hosted by: Michael Aranda
Instructional Video2:14
SciShow

Why Don't Sleeping Bats Fall Down?

12th - Higher Ed
Bats sleep upside down, so how come they don’t fall? Turns out that they’ve got some unusual legs.
Instructional Video5:14
SciShow Kids

Blue Whales: The Biggest Animal EVER! | SciShow Kids

K - 5th
Did you know that the biggest animal that ever lived is still alive today? Let's learn all about what blue whales eat, where they live, and just how big they are, with Jessi and Squeaks!
Instructional Video4:42
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Are naked mole rats the strangest mammals? - Thomas Park

Pre-K - Higher Ed
What mammal has the social life of an insect, the cold-bloodedness of a reptile, and the metabolism of a plant? Bald and buck-toothed, naked mole rats may not be pretty, but they are extraordinary. Thomas Park explains how mole rats'...
Instructional Video15:31
SciShow Kids

Brr! 5 Videos about Winter!

K - 5th
The snow is really coming down where Jessi lives, so she and Squeaks decided to stay indoors where it's nice and warm and look back on some of the amazing things they've learned about winter! Grab a fuzzy sweater and a mug of cocoa and...
Instructional Video8:06
SciShow

5 Animals That Sleep Too Much (and One That Might Not Need To)

12th - Higher Ed
In the animal kingdom, sleeping can be dangerous. Lying completely motionless and unconscious for hours at a time is just asking for trouble. There are, however, some sleepy risk-takers who spend almost all of their days snoozing.
Instructional Video2:20
SciShow

Why Do Birds Have White And Dark Meat? (And Do We?)

12th - Higher Ed
Why do chickens and turkeys have white meat and dark meat? And, like, gross, but .. do humans have the same thing? It's all about our muscles: what they're made of, and what they're made for. Quick Questions has the answers!
Instructional Video5:15
SciShow

The Beginning of the End of North Atlantic Right Whales? | SciShow News

12th - Higher Ed
Scientists say that we might be looking at the first extinction caused by whaling, and on an entirely different note, a discovery involving bed bugs and STIs.
Instructional Video4:35
SciShow

Optogenetics: Using Light to Control Your Brain

12th - Higher Ed
Optogenetics may allow us to use light like a remote control for our brains, and treat diseases like retinitis pigmentosa.
Instructional Video19:58
SciShow Kids

5 Animal Valentines! | Valentine's Day | A SciShow Kids Compilation

K - 5th
It’s Valentine’s Day, and Jessi and Squeaks got Valentines from their awesome animal friends all over the world! Hang out with them as they read some silly Valentine poems and learn about the animals that sent them!
Instructional Video16:18
TED Talks

Emma Teeling: The secret of the bat genome

12th - Higher Ed
In Western society, bats are often characterized as creepy, even evil. Zoologist Emma Teeling encourages us to rethink common attitudes toward bats, whose unique and fascinating biology gives us insight into our own genetic makeup.
Instructional Video7:13
SciShow

Secrets of the Vampire Squid

12th - Higher Ed
This week in SciShow News, Hank tells us about some weird science, including a squid that's not a squid, animals that can talk, and new insights into how you can mess up your body much faster and for much longer than you ever thought...
Instructional Video6:48
PBS

Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor

12th - Higher Ed
With its lizard-like appearance and that distinctive sail on it back, Dimetrodon is practically the mascot of the Palaeozoic Era, a time before flowers, birds, mammals, and even crocodiles. But if you take a close look at this...
Instructional Video2:49
SciShow

Chimera Cats and Your Mom

12th - Higher Ed
Hank talks about chimeras, and why Venus the cat probably isn't one - but your mom might be
Instructional Video3:55
SciShow

Record-Breaking Discoveries of 2016!

12th - Higher Ed
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.
Instructional Video3:16
SciShow

The World's 5 Rarest Animals

12th - Higher Ed
Today's extraordinarily depressing dose comes to you in honor of Lonesome George, the world's last Pinta Island tortoise, who passed away earlier this summer - Hank brings us the stories of five more extremely rare animals who may be...
Instructional Video14:11
TED Talks

Lucy Cooke: Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal

12th - Higher Ed
Sloths have been on this planet for more than 40 million years. What's the secret to their success? In a hilarious talk, zoologist Lucy Cooke takes us inside the strange life of the world's slowest mammal and shows what we can learn from...
Instructional Video3:28
SciShow

Animals That Do Drugs

12th - Higher Ed
Turns out humans aren't the only animals that can medicate themselves - many other animals have found ways to deal with illness by using natural remedies. Hank will tell you about some of the most interesting methods animals have found...
Instructional Video10:10
SciShow

9 of the Most Abundant Animals on Earth

12th - Higher Ed
Check out nine abundant animals that help support the food chain in their ecosystems!