PBS
A Brief History of Geologic Time
By looking at the layers beneath our feet, geologists have been able to identify and describe crucial episodes in life's history. These key events frame the chapters in the story of life on earth and the system we use to bind all these...
Wonderscape
Factors Influencing Fossilization: The Journey to Becoming a Fossil
Understand the complex process of fossilization and the factors that influence whether an organism becomes a fossil. Learn about the rarity of fossilization, with fewer than 10% of today's organisms likely to become fossils. Explore how...
PBS
Animals Are Older Than We Thought
New ReviewWhat are animal-like fossils doing in rocks a billion years old, and what does that mean for our understanding of their evolution and geologic time itself? Turns out, there might've been a long, slow-burning fuse that ultimately ignited...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Our Earth - Who Needs Geology?
Not only are our cities and almost every product we use derived from the ground, so is almost all our energy. Yet minerals and petroleum products are only the start. Every culture has wondered about the origin and nature of the earth and...
SciShow
Our Entire Society is Built on a Geological Fluke
If a tree falls into the forest and doesn't decompose, what happens to it?
Curated Video
Coins and Fossils - Geological Time (2/6)
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Bozeman Science
ESS1C - The History of the Earth
In this video Paul Andersen explains in more detail the history of the Earth. He shows how the history of the Earth is written in the rocks that are built up over time. Fossils allow us to compare different rock layers relative to one...
Crash Course
The History of Life on Earth - Crash Course Ecology
With a solid understanding of biology on the small scale under our belts, it's time for the long view - for the next twelve weeks, we'll be learning how the living things that we've studied interact with and influence each other and...
Curated Video
The Geological Tapestry of Provence: From Dinosaurs to Today
Uncover the stunning geological transformations of Provence, from the vivid red cliffs resembling the Grand Canyon to the remarkable "Ladies with Hairdos" rock formations and fossil-rich sites. This video explores how tectonic activities...
Wonderscape
The Cenozoic Era: Dawn of Mammals and Modern Landscapes
Explore the Cenozoic era, known as the Age of Mammals, which showcases the dramatic rise and diversification of mammalian life following the dinosaurs' extinction. This era, spanning from 65 million years ago to the present, has seen...
Wonderscape
The Anthropocene Epic: A Geological Perspective
Explore the concept of the Anthropocene Epic, a proposed geological era marked by humanity's significant impact on Earth's climate and ecosystems. Learn about the debate surrounding its official start, theories including the advent of...
Crash Course
Earth Science: Crash Course History of Science
It's Earth Science time!!!! In this field, natural philosophers were asking questions like, what’s up with fossils? Are they the remains of extinct organisms? Or are they so-called “sports of nature”—rocks that just happen to look like...
SciShow
Why the Appalachians Contain Some of the Oldest Fossils on Earth
The Appalachian Mountains are some of the oldest geological features on earth. And they also hold fossils that tell us about some of the very earliest life forms that we'll ever manage to see in the fossil record. So how did these...
PBS
The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained
Throughout the Pleistocene Epoch, the range of the woolly rhino grew and shrank in sync with global climate. So what caused the climate -- and the range of the woolly rhino -- to cycle back and forth between such extremes?
Curated Video
Making Silicon Looking into Compounds and Making Silica
Silicon compounds | Silicates , earth crust |Natural occurance | Silica SiO2 | Polymorphism | Quartz | Japer |Onyz | Kieselguhr | Diatoms in sea |SiO2 preparation | oxidation of silica | orthosilisic acid Silicates, primarily composed of...
Curated Video
The Grand Canyon: A Geological Wonder and Cultural Heritage
This video provides fascinating insights into the Grand Canyon, exploring its geological history, size, and unique features. It highlights the Canyon's significance to both humans and animals, while also debunking the myth of dinosaur...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Our Earth - Fossils
A fossil is a trace of a living thing left in rock. Fossils offer a three-part challenge - first to reconstruct the organism itself, then to reconstruct the world it lived in, then to understand its place in time and evolution.
SciShow
The History Hidden in Martian Dunes
The Red Planet was once more like Earth, with a thicker atmosphere and liquid water. Now, scientists are looking for clues to its past in the planet’s ancient fossil dunes, barchan dunes, and ghost dunes.
PBS
The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
In order to understand where hearts came from, we have to go back to the earliest common ancestor of everything that has a heart. It took hundreds of millions of years, and countless different iterations of the same basic structure to...
PBS
How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World (w/ SciShow!)
Strange geologic landmarks in the Pacific Northwest are the lingering remains of a mystery that took nearly half a century to solve. These features turned out to be a result one of the most powerful and bizarre episodes in geologic...
SciShow
There’s A New Tyrannosaurus in Town
The Tyrannosaurus genus might have been more diverse than we thought. And researchers show how the composition of the early Earth could have accelerated its move towards habitability.
PBS
That Time the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared
How could a body of water as big as the Mediterranean just...disappear? It would take decades and more than 1,000 research studies to even start to figure out the cause -- or causes -- of one of the greatest vanishing acts in Earth’s...
Natural History Museum
A guide on how to find fossils on the Isle of Wight | Field Studies
Fossil hunting is a fun and easy hobby to get into, but how do you get started? The good news is you don't have to be an expert palaeontologist to find fossils of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Guided by Megan, Jack and Theo...
PBS
From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
After taking you on a journey through geologic time, we've arrived at the Cenozoic Era. Most of the mammals and birds that you can think of appeared during this era but perhaps more importantly, the Cenozoic marks the rise of organisms...