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Why Do Our Noses Stick Out?
Have you ever thought about why we humans have noses that stick out? Turns out, there's been a big story about human evolution right... under your nose.
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The Tiny T. rex Causing a Big Science Feud
You’ve heard of Tyrannosaurus rex, but did you know they might have a mini-cousin called Nanotyrannus? And that “might” is serious, because researchers have been arguing about it for nearly 40 years and still haven’t gotten to the bottom...
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This Video Game Software Helps Us Do Paleontology
The same technology that helps you rack up kills in your favorite FPS games also helps paleontologists solve million-year-old mysteries. Thanks to Dr. Anne Kort for helping us with this video!
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Weird and Wonderful Amphibians | SciShow Kids Compilation
In this SciShow Kids compilation, Jessi and the gang learn about axolotls, poison dart frogs, and an amphibian with a boomerang-shaped head.
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The Ancient Animal With a Boomerang Head! | SciShow Kids
Squeaks and Jessi discover an animal with a head that reminds them of a boomerang. Its name is Diplocaulus, and they'll learn all about how that funny head helped it live a very long time ago! First Grade Next Generation Science...
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When The "Combat Wombat" Became An Apex Predator
In Australia, evolution built a family of deadly predators by taking a group of cute, harmless herbivores and turning them murderous.
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When a Giant Pterosaur Ruled the European Islands
The ecological niche of apex predators was empty on Hateg Island, waiting to be occupied by something large, mobile, and powerful enough to fill it.
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The Hellacious Lives of the "Hell Pigs"
Despite the name, we don’t know where the so-called “hell pigs” belong in the mammalian family tree. They walked on hooves, like pigs do, but had longer legs, almost like deer. They had hunched backs, a bit like rhinos or bison. But as...
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The Creature That Stumped Darwin
Toxodon was one of the last members of a lineage that vanished 11,000 years ago after thriving in isolation for millions of years. And its fossils would inspire a revolutionary thinker to tackle a bigger mystery than Toxodon itself:...
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The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived
Untangling the origins of Beelzebufo -- the giant frog that lived alongside the dinosaurs -- turns out to be one of the most bedeviling problems in the history of amphibians.
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How Weasels Got Skinny
Weasels have an extreme body plan that may push the boundaries of what’s metabolically possible. So when and how did this happen? Why'd the weasels get so skinny?
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The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"
Figuring out what this creature’s face actually looked like would take paleontologists years. But understanding this weird animal can help us shine a light on at least one way for ecosystems to bounce back from even the worst mass...
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Is This The Oldest Dad In The Fossil Record?
Fossil evidence suggests Diictodon used burrows to breed, and that a parent stayed behind to feed and protect their young. And the parent that stayed behind? It might’ve been the male.
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Anthropology’s Greatest Hoax
Scientists are sometimes deemed objective observers of the world in which we live, but that’s not entirely true. They’re still human and can find themselves victim to fraudsters just like the lot of us.
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Where Did Humans Come From?
Hank tells us about new and confusing discoveries in the field of Human Evolution.
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This Ichthyosaur Terrorized the Triassic Seas
One ancient predator turns out to have been able to eat much larger prey than we thought was possible, and a baby titanosaur skull gives us clues about what changes took place as sauropods grew up.
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What Zinc Means for Megalodon’s Extinction | SciShow News
This week in the journal Nature Communications, scientists report a way to use fossilized shark teeth to figure out where different shark species, including megalodon, stood in the web of life. And last week in the journal Scientific...
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Introducing: SciShow Talk Show! Emily, Rhinos, and Cas the Arctic Fox
Featuring Emily of The Brain Scoop ( / thebrainscoop ) and Cas the Arctic Fox! We decided it would be cool to have guests come into the studio and talk about science with Hank.
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Dimetrodon, the Animal With a Sail! | The History of Life! | SciShow Kids
Squeaks and Jessi use their pretend time machine to go way back in time and meet a creature even older than dinosaurs, called Dimetrodon! First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Crosscutting Concept: Structure and Function: The way...
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Luzia Among Specimens Likely Lost in Brazil Museum Fire SciShow News
Luzia, the oldest human fossil in the Western hemisphere, was lost to the Brazil National Museum fire, but around same time, three new species of ancient primates were discovered in San Diego Natural History Museum.
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This Is What Climate Change Feels Like
Hank brings you the SciShow news of the week. Recent record high temperatures and other extreme weather events around the world are climate change in action; a new fossil of an ancient human ancestor; some disturbing discoveries about...
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No Phones Arent Giving Kids Horns Seriously
You might have seen this story circulating on social media…but we’re here to let you know that children are NOT growing horns because they use cellphones. This is a great opportunity to learn from what can happen when both peer review...
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Where Do Teeth Come From?
Teeth. We've all got 'em (most of us, anyway). But how do they grow? Teeth are made from some biological nanotechnology that will blow your mind. They are strong enough to last hundreds of millions of years. Oh, and if you've ever...
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The Evolution of Male Homosexuality
Hank goes from space to sex and then to motherhood, covering the SpaceX launch, a mission to the moons of Jupiter, intersexual workplace rivalries, the evolution of male homosexuality, the fossil evidence of squishy baby skulls, toddler...