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The Ancient Animal Crossing | SciShow Kids
Join Squeaks and Jessi as they learn about a time when lots of animals switched places -- like bears, sloths, armadillos, and more.
SciShow Kids
Tails and Tusks and Teeth, Oh My! | SciShow Kids Compilation
Come with Jessi and Squeaks as they explore some of the animals that roamed the Earth during the ice age. And a lot of these animals had giant features, like teeth the size of bananas or mouths shaped like a shovel!
SciShow
Everyone Was Wrong About Avocados - Including Us
If you’re a fan of avocados, you might have heard that they only exist thanks to prehistoric creatures called giant ground sloths. In fact, you’ve probably heard that from us. But as it turns out, the real story is way more complicated -...
PBS
When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
Just a few thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs. How did such a diverse group of primates evolve in the first place, and how did they help shape the unique environments of Madagascar? And how did...
PBS
The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time
The California condor is the biggest flying bird in North America, a title that it has held since the Late Pleistocene Epoch. It's just one example of an organism that we share the planet with today that seems lost in time, out of place...
PBS
Did These Giant Sloths Poop Themselves to Death?
At Tanque Loma, at least 22 giant ground sloths in the genus Eremotherium met their end. Of the five hypotheses that researchers proposed for what killed the sloths, the best supported one right now is that they died surrounded by their...
SciShow
3 Animal Oddities: Sloths & Moths, the Biggest Genome, and Upside-Down Life
Michael Aranda shares some newly discovered animal oddities this week, including the secret shared by sloths and moths, the largest animal genome ever sequenced, and unusual new life at the bottom of the world.
PBS
How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
The story of sloths is one of astounding ecological variability, with some foraging in the seas, others living underground, and others still hiding from predators in towering cliffs. So why are their only living relatives in the trees?
TED Talks
Lucy Cooke: Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal
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...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan
Sloths spend most of their time eating, resting, or sleeping; in fact, they descend from their treetops canopies just once a week, for a bathroom break. How are these creatures so low energy? Kenny Coogan describes the physical and...
Crash Course Kids
Food Chains Compilation
Maybe you'd like to just hear about one topic for a while. We understand. So today, let's just watch some videos about how we get energy. And how one animal gets energy from another animal, or a plant. It's all about food chains and food...
SciShow
Basically Every Mammal Is Good at Swimming... Except Us
From the world’s biggest land animal to a creature built more like a tank than a sub, meet seven mammals that you might not think can swim well, but do! CHAPTERS View all MOOSE 1:33 2 ELEPHANTS 3:21 ARMADILLOS 4:54 CAMELS 5:32 6 SLOTHS 9:03
SciShow Kids
Odd Facts About Sloths
Sloths might be slow and spend much of their time sleeping, but they’re definitely not boring. Jessi shares three weird facts about sloths!
Curated Video
Sloth vs cheetah
The sloth and the cheetah have different energy needs. This is reflected in their diet. Physical processes - Energy and energy transfer - Storing energy Learning Points Stored energy is a type of potential energy. All animals store the...
Brave Wilderness
Cutest Baby Sloth EVER!
In this segment of On Location, Coyote meets the smallest and cutest baby Sloth he’s ever seen! His name is B-Rad and he is a rescue animal at Kids Saving the Rainforest in Quepos, Costa Rica. Fortunately for him he was found after being...
Brave Wilderness
WORLD FAMOUS SLOTH…gives tiny kisses!
On this episode of Base Camp, Coyote, Mark and Mario revisit their most watched video of all time, B-Rad the Baby Three-Toed Sloth!
Brave Wilderness
Sloth vs Sloth!
Did you know there is more than one kind of Sloth? If not you’re in luck because on this episode of Breaking Trail Coyote will compare both the Two-Toed and Three-Toed Sloth side by side all while feeding them their daily meals. Oh and...
Brave Wilderness
POOPING A SLOTH!
In this segment of On Location, Coyote gets his hands dirty Pooping a Sloth! It turns out rescued baby Sloths need assistance going to the bathroom and when the crew learned about this they offered up Coyote’s outstanding “poop” observer...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Sloths and Their Wacky World
This video provides an overview of basic sloth facts, including their physical characteristics, sleep habits, eating habits, and behavior on the ground. It also includes footage of a newborn sloth being hand-reared and cared for by...