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A simple way to tell insects apart

Adults Animals
There are nearly a million known insect species in the world, but most have one of just five common types of mouthparts.

Crocodile Feeding FRENZY!

Adults Animals
On this episode of Breaking Trail, Coyote feeds a GIANT Saltwater Crocodile!

Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt

Adults Animals
Until recently, scientists thought cannibalism was a rare response to starvation or other extreme stress.

Why Don't Sheep Shrink In The Rain?

Adults Animals
Getting wet isn't REALLY what makes wool shrink; it merely exacerbates the friction between the wool fibers, which is stronger in one direction than another, so when agitated in the washer or dryer, they migrate in relation to each other in a process called "felting."

Why BEAVERS Are The Smartest Thing In Fur Pants

Adults Animals
Beavers have done more to shape North American landscapes than any animal beside humans. We don't notice them much today because there aren't many left, but before colonization, North America was home to hundreds of millions of these furry engineers.

Why Are There As Many Males As Females?

Adults Animals
In almost every animal species on Earth, equal numbers of males and females are conceived. Why is that?

Why Are Mosquitoes Attracted To Me?!

Adults Animals
Mosquitoes are attracted to me and it's likely due to my genes.

How to Make an Elephant Explode with Science - The Size of Life 2

Adults Animals
Life on this planet is based on cells. Cells do vary in size. But they are pretty similar in their dimensions across all species. A blue whale doesn't have bigger cells than a hummingbird, just a lot more of them.

True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp

Adults Animals
Incredible sea predator.

Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature?

Adults Animals
Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far between. And the ones that do make blue? They make it in some very strange and special ways compared to other colors. In this video, we'll look at some very cool butterflies to help us learn how living things make blue, and why this beautiful hue is so rare in nature.

Emergence - How Stupid Things Become Smart Together

Adults Animals
How can many stupid things combine to form smart things? How can proteins become living cells? How become lots of ants a colony? What is emergence?

Where Do Our Drugs Come From?

Adults Animals
The incredible chemical weapon-making abilities of fungi, bacteria, and plants have created a diverse array of compounds that are useful to humans.

Why do animals form swarms?

Adults Animals
When many individual organisms come together and move as one entity, that's a swarm. From a handful of birds to billions of insects, swarms can be almost any size.

Why Pets Have Surprisingly Small Brains

Adults Animals
When we domesticate an animal species, their brains shrink and they freak out less.

Under the Sea | What's in the Box

Adults Animals
Kids are guessing what is in the box.

How do fish make electricity? - Eleanor Nelsen

Adults Animals
Nearly 350 species of fish have specialized anatomical structures that generate and detect electrical signals. Underwater, where light is scarce, electrical signals offer ways to communicate, navigate, find, and sometimes stun prey. But how do these fish produce electricity? And why? Eleanor Nelsen illuminates the science behind electric fish.

I Rescued Kittens That Almost Died

Adults Animals
Jenna and her Mom live in an apartment complex, on the second floor with their two cats - Bella and Kitty. Their apartment has a little terrace attached to it, and she and her Mom, and the two cats love to hang out and watch all the activity going on in the courtyard, and sometimes in the other apartments across the way.

Baby Animal Rescue // 60 Second Docs

Adults Animals
For the last 15 years, Joseph Keter has been rescuing, caring for and returning injured and abandoned animals -- mainly orphans whose mothers have died -- to the wild. From lions to cheetahs and buffalo to gazelle, Joseph has cared for some of Africa's most iconic animals. His days may be long and difficult, but when it's life or death for baby animals on Kenya's Lake Naivasha, it's all worth it.

Ocean Defense Kid | Connor Berryhill // 60 Second Docs

Adults Animals
Connor Berryhill was only 5 years old when an underwater encounter with an endangered monk seal set him on a path to take care of the world's most vulnerable creatures. Now 11, he's taken his small-scale activism big and started his own nonprofit, MicroActivist. Their mission: to connect youth with projects to protect the ocean -- and save our planet's oceans and seas.

The only wild monkeys in Europe

Adults Animals
I visited Gibraltar and hung out with monkeys.

An Asteroid Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs, Here's a New Theory About What Did

Adults Animals
A new scientific model has discovered what actually happened to the earth after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs.