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A Lot About Axolotls! | SciShow Kids
Axolotls are amazing pets! Join Jessi and Squeaks as they learn about why axolotls have feathery gills and live in water, and how to protect their natural habitat. First Grade Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Idea:...
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Adorable Dolphin Kiddos Play Like Us
Whether it's solo or with a friend, young dolphins love to partake in a bit of play.
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Do Fish Drink Water?
They live in the water, but do they actually drink it? Turns out, some fish actually do! Learn all about how different kinds of fish get the fresh water that they need to survive in this new episode of SciShow!
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Why Don’t Jellyfish Look Like That?
When you think of a jellyfish, do you imagine an angelic stingy blob? That's just one stage of the life of a jelly!
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Why Frogs Sometimes Fall From the Sky
It doesn't seem possible, but animal rain is definitely real, and there is an actual scientific explanation for it... probably.
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Why Yapoks Need a Pouch for Their Junk
Yapoks are cute aquatic marsupials, and they're the only living creatures that need pouches for their sacs.
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Cephalopods Have a Totally Wild Way of Adapting
With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s resident aliens. But researchers have discovered yet another thing that separates them from most other animals on...
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Why is Organized Crime Buying Sand?!
Some might call sand coarse, rough and irritating, but there’s no denying that it’s used everywhere: from glass to asphalt, sand is a key ingredient for all sorts of materials in construction and technology. But this heavy reliance on...
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The World Is Built on Sand... and We're Running Out
Some might call sand coarse, rough and irritating, but there’s no denying that it’s used everywhere: from glass to asphalt, sand is a key ingredient for all sorts of materials in construction and technology. But this heavy reliance on...
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Cephalopods Have a Totally Wild Way of Adapting
With their squishy bodies and color-changing abilities, octopuses and other cephalopods already look like our planet’s resident aliens. But researchers have discovered yet another thing that separates them from most other animals on Earth!
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Raccoons Don’t Really Wash Their Food
Raccoons are famous for "washing" their food, but this behavior, called dousing, isn't really about cleanliness.
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Why Frogs Sometimes Fall From the Sky
It doesn't seem possible, but animal rain is definitely real, and there is an actual scientific explanation for it... probably.
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FAQs From Our First Year
Over the first season of PBS Eons, we've explored the history of Earth from the very origins of life right up to the Cenozoic Era that we're in now. To celebrate our first anniversary together, we'd like to answer some of your most...
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Nurseryfish Dads Give Their Young a Headstart… Literally
Happy Father's day! Today we're talking about the fintastic Nurseryfish, which is one of the best dads you can fish for.
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How Do Ducks Stay Dry?
You might be familiar with the phrase "like water off a ducks back". But it's not that ducks don't get wet, it's that they get wet, with style.
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5 Ways Humans Are Influencing Species Evolution
Evolution is a never ending process, but there are some cases where humanity has given it a big push.
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An Ode to Salps: Our Gelatinous Marine Cousins
Salps are more than just strange balls of goo drifting through the sea—in fact, they’re more closely related to us than they are to jellyfish, and play a huge role in marine ecosystems and the global carbon cycle as the “vacuum cleaners...
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The Fish that Strolls on the Sea Floor
We may never know when our ancestors walked out of the water into dry land. But it's possible they may have been walking in water for millions of years!
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These Chimps Treat Each Other’s Wounds. With Bugs
Chimpanzees in Gabon have been observed using bugs as a possible antiseptic, but what's more surprising is that they're applying this remedy to one another in what may be a form of chimpanzee health care.
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Why Gooey Creatures Might Outlast Us All
Although gelatinous animals might seem like simple creatures, they'll probably outlast the rest of us, because being gelatinous might turn out to be the ultimate survival strategy.
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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
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Why Yapoks Need a Pouch for Their Junk
Yapoks are cute aquatic marsupials, and they're the only living creatures that need pouches for their sacs.
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Ecosystem Ecology: Links in the Chain - Crash Course Ecology
Hank brings us to the next level of ecological study with ecosystem ecology, which looks at how energy, nutrients, and materials are getting shuffled around within an ecosystem (a collection of living and nonliving things interacting in...
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Carnivorous Plants
Not all plants exist simply on sunlight and water. Carnivorous plants eat meat. Discover how some of these carnivores trap and kill their prey. Biology - Plants - Learning Points. Some plants, often in harsh conditions, have adapted to...