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Neil deGrasse Tyson Replies to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
531 views / 0 likes - addedIn April 2015, the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson accepted the National Academy of Science's most prestigious award. His brilliant acceptance speech makes the argument for ensuring that science plays a big role in policymaking. Inspired by the short a
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Neil deGrasse Tyson gets to the bottom of GMOs
519 views / 0 likes - addedThere is a lot of information and misinformation about the presence of GMOs in our food chain. In this segment of StarTalk radio Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks to documentary filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy ("Food Evolution") and plant geneticist Pamela Rona
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Science in America - Neil deGrasse Tyson
421 views / 0 likes - addedWe offer this 4min video on “Science in America”, containing what may be the most important words Neil deGrasse Tyson has ever spoken. ------------- Redglass Pictures is an award-winning production studio co-founded by Sarah Klein and Tom Maso
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What Makes Something See-Through? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains...
112 views / 0 likes - addedWhy are some things see-through and others are not? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explain the physics behind transparency and the electromagnetic spectrum. How does transparency work? Learn about different wavelengths and what objects are tr
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Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains...
193 views / 0 likes - addedWhy do clocks go clockwise? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice ponder about the way we tell our time and more. We think about time geometrically and the history of timekeeping with sundials. What if timekeeping had been invented in the southern h
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The International Date Line
96 views / 0 likes - addedWhat is the International Date Line? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down the history and purpose of the IDL. How do we know we needed a date line? Find out how the need for an international date line was discovered and why it was an acc
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Dimensions
64 views / 0 likes - addedWhat’s up with the fourth dimension? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore the dimensions, worldlines, and what it would mean to be 4D. Learn about time and space and how we navigate through both. What would a 2D world be like for two-dimension
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How Do Bikes Stay Up? | Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains
177 views / 0 likes - addedHow do bikes stay up? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary OReilly learn the physics behind what makes riding a bicycle possible.How do bikes and motorcycles stay up? Learn about gyroscopic and angular momentum. Is the gyroscopic force the
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The Three-Body Problem
61 views / 0 likes - addedWhat is the three body problem? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down why the three body problem is unsolvable and what makes it mathematically chaotic. Is the solar system unstable? Find out about Isaac Newton’s worries about the s
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Regular Show | Terror Tales with Neil deGrasse Tyson | Cartoon Network
578 views / 0 likes - addedAfter the Space Tree gets sucked into a black hole, the guys wake up as ingredients in scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson's spaghetti. Will Neil let them live, or enjoy his "scientific" dinner? Happy Halloween! CN GAMES: http://bit.ly/CNGames SUBSCRIBE: http:/
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The Most Astounding Fact - Neil deGrasse Tyson
824 views / 0 likes - addedSame video on Vimeo! http://vimeo.com/38101676 Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer. Please subscribe above! In 20 la
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Invisibility: The Science of How Not To Be Seen with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Greg Gbur
107 views / 0 likes - addedCan you make something invisible? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Negin Farsad discover the science behind invisibility with professor of physics and optical science, Greg Gbur. What would real-life invisibility look like?Can you be invisible in other pa
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Deconstructing the Science in Popular Films with Neil deGrasse Tyson | Podcast Highlights
127 views / 0 likes - addedNeil deGrasse Tyson investigates the science of pop fiction and superheroes with comedian Chuck Nice and astrophysicist Charles Liu, PhD. We dive right into speed-of-light communication in space. If two parties are communicating light years away from each
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Does the Universe Have a Purpose? feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson
514 views / 0 likes - addedNeil deGrasse Tyson was asked by the Templeton Foundation to answer the question "Does the Universe Have a Purpose". Then he read his answer aloud and I drew some pictures for it. http://www.templeton.org/purpose/ You can buy MinutePhysics T-shirts at htt
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: Should We Send Robots or People to Space?
465 views / 0 likes - addedNeil deGrasse Tyson weighs in on the moral dilemma with eye-opening wisdom. Should we send robots or people to space? Subscribe to Mashable for more: http://on.mash.to/subscribe Share your thoughts on the debate in the comments below! RELATED VIDEOS When
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STAR TREK: VOYAGER CAKE - Ft. Neil DeGrasse Tyson - NERDY NUMMIES
931 views / 2 likes - addedToday I made Tuvok's cloaking frequency cake from Star Trek Voyager with my special guest, Neil deGrasse Tyson! I really enjoy making nerdy themed goodies and decorating them. I'm not a pro, but I love baking as a hobby. Please let me know what kind of tr
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How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything with Michio Kaku & Neil deGrasse Tyson
107 views / 0 likes - addedHow will quantum computing change the world? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice learn about the development of quantum computing and what it means for humanity with theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. What will quantum computing do beyond regular
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A Brief History Of Everything, Feat. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
746 views / 0 likes - addedThis video brought to you by http://www.audible.com/minutephysics Thanks to Neil deGrasse Tyson for his amazing writing and narration! Music: "The Firebird Suite" by Igor Stravinsky, performed by the USAF Band, licensed from Naxos of America, Inc. for wor
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Time ft. Neil deGrasse Tyson
432 views / 0 likes - addedWatch me on StarTalk Radio: https://youtu.be/HgMNKhgMAuk The Curiosity Box: http://curiositybox.com twitter: http://twitter.com/vsaucethree instagram: http://instagr.am/jakerawr facebook: http://facebook.com/vsauce3 Linear Time https://blogs.scientificame
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Why do stars Twinkle ? By Neil Degrasse Tyson | #neildegrassetyson
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Chaser the Dog Shows Off Her Smarts to Neil deGrasse Tyson
1,064 views / 0 likes - addedFormer Wofford College Professor John Pilley, owner and trainer of Chaser the Border Collie, “the world’s smartest dog,” passed away on Sunday, June 17. He was 89 years old. Learn more about how smart dogs are by watching the full segmen
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Are we living in a simulation ? By Neil Degrasse Tyson #neildegrassetyson #startalk
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Neil deGrasse Tyson tries Soylent and talks future of food with CEO Rob Rhinehart
602 views / 0 likes - addedWatch the whole series: https://www.facebook.com/RisingStarsWithNeildeGrasseTyson/ Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TWITTER: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/t
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Neil's Gettysburg Reply
574 views / 0 likes - addedNeil DeGrasse Tyson celebrates the 150th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and also reflects on how Lincoln set a course for science to impact the future wellbeing of the nation. Read his words here: http://scim.ag/1S6TroV Written by Nei
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How The World Would Look if We Could See CO2
457 views / 1 likes - addedif Carbon Dioxide was visible - Neil deGrasse Tyson on Climate Change
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Aerogel - The Lowest Known Density Material
566 views / 0 likes - addedAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson wanted to blow Adam Savage's mind, so he whipped out his sample of aerogel. Learn about what this super-light low-density material does and how it's used, along with comic co-host Chuck Nice. Check out Adam's new book! h
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Why They Boxed Like This In The Old Days
133 views / 0 likes - addedMany have the question as to Why they fought like this in the past? Well, Today here at Primo Boxing we will be covering everything that has to do with this goofy boxing stance. If you are a fan of Mike Tyson Or Muhammad Ali there is no denying that these
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How to Solve a Rubik's Cube | WIRED
1,838 views / 2 likes - addedWIRED's Robbie Gonzalez learned to solve a Rubik's cube from Tyson Mao, one of the co-founders of the World Cube Association. In two weeks, Robbie got his solve time down from 45 minutes with Tyson, to 20 minutes on his own, to under a minute on average.
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Evolutionarily Stable Strategies Ft. Richard Dawkins
650 views / 0 likes - addedWhen evolution favours a stable ratio of traits rather than one dominant trait. Check out Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVe Animation by The Lyosacks: https://www.youtube.com/TheLyosacks Hosting Neil Degrasse Tyson, info and tickets: http://bit.ly/NDTandVe
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EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Hawking on What Existed Before the Big Bang
500 views / 0 likes - addedIn this exclusive clip, Tyson asks Hawking your standard softball interview question: what was around before the big bang? In other words, what happened before the moment the universe began? Check out Hawking’s answer: “The boundary condition of the unive
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Can We Chop The Worlds Strongest Cube In Half?
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4 Revolutionary Riddles
387 views / 0 likes - addedCan you solve these four rotation-related riddles?Support Veritasium on Patreon: http://ve42.co/patreonTest yourself playlist: http://ve42.co/testurselfHuge thanks to Patreon supporters:Jeff Straathof, Zach Mueller, Ron Neal, Nathan HansenI came across th
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TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)
1,373 views / 2 likes - addedSupport my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/melodysheep | Get the soundtrack: https://bit.ly/2HKl9fi | How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate
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Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective
215 views / 1 likes - addedThe title and thumbnail play a huge role in a video's success or failure.Check out http://kiwico.com/Veritasium50 for 50% off your first month of any subscription! Special thanks to Patreon supporters: Alvaro Naranjo, Burt Humburg, Blake Byers, Dumky, Mik
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Are We Living In The Matrix? | WIRED
216 views / 0 likes - added20 years ago, futurist Nick Bostrom published the first draft of his groundbreaking simulation argument, which asks, "Are you living in a computer simulation?" Public figures like Elon Musk and Neil deGrass Tyson have also broached this line of questionin
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Are You In A Simulation?
648 views / 1 likes - addedWatch Part 2 on Kurzgesagt: https://youtu.be/tlTKTTt47WE instagram: http://instagr.am/jakerawr twitter: http://twitter.com/vsaucethree facebook: http://facebook.com/vsauce3 Nick Bostrom's Simulation Argument https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.
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What are gravitational waves? - Amber L. Stuver
1,208 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out all of TED-Ed's book recommendations: http://ed.ted.com/books Check out Neil deGrasse Tyson's "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry": https://shop.ed.ted.com/collections/ted-ed-book-recommendations/products/astrophysics-for-people-in-a-hurry View
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Can Our Giant Axe Chop A Tesla In Half?
90 views / 0 likes - addedThis axe is a beast!BUY NEW MERCH http://bit.ly/HRMerchStoreSUBSCRIBE http://bit.ly/SubHowRidiculousBECOME A MEMBER and get exclusive perks like bonus videos, live streams. merch discount codes + more! http://bit.ly/HRmembershipsSOCIALSInstagram @HowRidic
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Why You Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now
281 views / 0 likes - addedHow close are we to having fully autonomous vehicles on the roads? Are they safe? In Chandler, Arizona a fleet of Waymo vehicles are already in operation. Waymo sponsored this video and provided access to their technology and personnel. Check out their sa
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The Paradox Paradox
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Space: The Next Trillion Dollar Industry
500 views / 0 likes - addedGet $20 off your Away suitcase by going to http://www.awaytravel.com/wendover and using the code “wendover” at check out Watch my appearance on StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson: https://youtu.be/OTEIbWy8AvY Check out the behind the scenes video on my new
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How An Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room
424 views / 0 likes - addedIf there's a hotel with infinite rooms, could it ever be completely full? Could you run out of space to put everyone? The surprising answer is yes -- this is important to know if you're the manager of the Hilbert Hotel. References: Ewald, W., & Sieg, W. (
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A Physics Prof Bet Me $10,000 I'm Wrong
226 views / 0 likes - addedA UCLA Physics Professor bet me $10,000 that my video about going downwind faster than the wind was wrong. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription. For mo
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When a Billion Years Disappeared
353 views / 0 likes - addedIn some places, the rocks below the Great Unconformity are about 1.2 billion years older than those above it. This missing chapter in Earths history might be linked to a fracturing supercontinent, out-of-control glaciers, and maybe the diversification of
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How the Egg Came First
543 views / 0 likes - addedThe story of the egg spans millions of years, from the first vertebrates that dared to venture onto land to todays mammals, including the platypus, and of course birds. Like chickens? Were here to tell you: The egg came first.Thanks to Fabrizio de Rossi f
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A Short Tale About Diplodocus' Long Neck
187 views / 0 likes - addedPBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to http://to.pbs.org/DonateEons More info below Long necks gave sauropods a huge advantage when it came to food, but not in the way you think. And this benefit would allow the
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The Forgotten Story of the Beardogs
340 views / 0 likes - addedBecause of their strange combination of bear-like and dog-like traits, theyre sometimes confusingly called the beardogs. And even though youve never met one of these animals, the beardogs are key to understanding the history of an important branch of the
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When Bats Took Flight
450 views / 1 likes - addedBats pretty much appear in the fossil record as recognizable, full-on, flying bats. And they show up on all of the continents, except Antarctica, around the same time. So where did bats come from? And which of the many weird features that bats have, showe
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The Ridiculous Way We Used To Calculate Pi
369 views / 0 likes - addedFor thousands of years, mathematicians were calculating Pi the obvious but numerically inefficient way. Then Newton came along and changed the game. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 314 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium
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The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time
472 views / 1 likes - addedThe 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 in our world. Than
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This is why we can't have nice things
242 views / 1 likes - addedThis video is about stuff: light bulbs, printers, phones and why they aren't better. Go to https://NordVPN.com/veritasium and use code VERITASIUM to get a 2-year plan plus 1 additional month with a huge discount. Its risk free with Nords 30 day money-back
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The Rise and Fall of the Tallest Mammal to Walk the Earth
341 views / 0 likes - addedIt arose from rhino ancestors that were a lot smaller, but Paraceratherium would take a different evolutionary path. Believe it or not, it actually became so big that it probably got close to what scientists think might be the actual upper limit for a lan
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How Earth's First, Unkillable Animals Saved the World
385 views / 0 likes - addedSupport us on Patreon: http://patreon.com/eonsThey have survived every catastrophe and every mass extinction event that nature has thrown at them. And by being the little, filter-feeding, water-cleaning creatures that they are, sponges may have saved the
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The Raptor That Made Us Rethink Dinosaurs
375 views / 0 likes - addedGet access to our quarterly livestream! http://patreon.com/eonsIn 1964, a paleontologist named John Ostrom unearthed some fascinating fossils from the mudstone of Montana. Its discovery set the stage for whats known today as the Dinosaur Renaissance, a to
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How Pterosaurs Got Their Wings
407 views / 1 likes - addedWhen pterosaurs first took flight, you could say that it marked the beginning of the end for the winged reptiles. Because, strangely enough, the power of flight -- and the changes that it led to -- may have ultimately led to their downfall.Thanks to Ceri
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The Fuzzy Origins of the Giant Panda
505 views / 1 likes - addedTo discover more go about the LEGO Ideas Tree House set go tohttps://www.lego.com/en-us/product/tree-house-21318?CMP=SOC-PBSEons21318How does a bear -- which is a member of the order Carnivora -- evolve into an herbivore? Despite how it looks, nothing abo
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When We Took Over the World
436 views / 1 likes - addedCheck out Monstrum! https://www.youtube.com/monstrumpbs From our deepest origins in Africa all the way to the Americas, by looking at the fossils and archaeological materials we have been able to trace the path our ancestors took during thee short window
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How Volcanoes Froze the Earth (Twice)
470 views / 0 likes - addedOver 600 million years ago, sheets of ice coated our planet on both land and sea. How did this happen? And most importantly for us, why did the planet eventually thaw again? The evidence for Snowball Earth is written on every continent today.Thanks to Jul
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The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body
395 views / 1 likes - addedFrom end to end, its forelimbs alone measured an incredible 2.4 meters long and were tipped with big, comma-shaped claws. But other than its bizarre arms, very little material from this dinosaur had been found: no skull, no feet, almost nothing that could
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The Case of the Dinosaur Egg Thief
474 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Serving Up Science! https://youtube.com/PBSFoodPaleontologists found a small theropod dinosaur skull right on top of a nest of eggs that were believed to belong to a plant-eating dinosaur. Instead of being the nest robbers that they were origina
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The Guy Who Figured Out How Snowflakes Work
196 views / 0 likes - addedDr Ken Libbrecht is the world expert on snowflakes, designer of custom snowflakes, snowflake consultant for the movie Frozen - his photos appear on postage stamps all over the world. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up vi
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How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
668 views / 0 likes - addedA 9,500 year old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the world. But when did this close relationship between humans and cats start?And how did humans help cats take over the world?Big thank
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When the Sahara Was Green
293 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Antarctic Extremes on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvRAuy1ZmTcThe climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And were not talking about just a few years of extra rain. Were talking about a climate that w
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When Giant Lemurs Ruled Madagascar
488 views / 1 likes - addedOur new pin! https://store.dftba.com/collections/all/products/eons-enamel-pinJust 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 s
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When Dinosaurs Chilled in the Arctic
380 views / 0 likes - addedAll told, the Arctic in the Cretaceous Period was a rough place to live, especially in winter. And yet, the fossils of many kinds of dinosaurs have been discovered there. So how were they able to survive in this harsh environment?Thanks to Nathan E. Roger
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When the Rainforests Collapsed
299 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Animal Wonders! https://youtu.be/tyK21xUnGrkThe Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse set the stage for a takeover that would be a crucial turning point in the history of terrestrial animal life. If it werent for that time when the rainforests colla
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How South America Made the Marsupials
476 views / 0 likes - addedThroughout the Cenozoic Era -- the era were in now -- marsupials and their metatherian relatives flourished all over South America, filling all kinds of ecological niches and radiating into forms that still thrive on other continents. Thanks to Darin Crof
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How Plankton Created A Bizarre Giant of the Seas
346 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Bizarre Beasts! https://youtu.be/DtufV5JZLW4At more than 2 meters long, Aegirocassis was not only the biggest radiodont ever, but it also may have been the biggest animal in the Early Ordovician. This bizarre marine giant may have only been poss
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How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna
353 views / 1 likes - addedCheck out Self-Evident on PBS Voices: https://youtu.be/B6QeZ07FaggBeneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had ex
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When Penguins Went From The Sky To The Sea
416 views / 0 likes - addedThank you for The Great Courses Plus for supporting PBS. To learn more click http://ow.ly/DIED30qpmFaToday, we think of penguins as small-ish, waddling, tuxedo-birds. But they evolved from a flying ancestor, were actual giants for millions of years, and s
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How the Walrus Got Its Tusks
397 views / 0 likes - addedThe rise and fall of ancient walruses, and how modern ones got their tusks, is a story that spans almost 20 million years.And while there are parts of the story that were still trying to figure out, it looks like tusks didnt have anything to do with how o
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How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends
355 views / 0 likes - addedWere still figuring out the details, but most scientists agree that it took thousands of years of interactions to develop our deep bond with dogs. When did they first become domesticated? Where did this happen? And what did the process look like, in terms
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Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?
553 views / 1 likes - addedHelp out Eons and take the PBS Digital Studios annual survey: http://to.pbs.org/2020surveyFor some reason, animals keep evolving into things that look like crabs, independently, over and over again.What is it about the crabs form that makes it so evolutio
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When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
328 views / 0 likes - addedThe marine reptiles Ichthyosaurs arose after The Great Dying, which wiped out at least 90 percent of life in the oceans, changing the seas forever and triggering a new evolutionary arms race between predator and prey.Thank you to these paleoartists for al
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How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
420 views / 0 likes - addedTake the PBS Digital Studios annual survey: http://to.pbs.org/2020surveyOur National Fossil Day Livestream will be on Facebook and YouTube at 8 PM ET on October 14th. Here's the link to the YouTube livestream: https://youtu.be/hW6XW1YgAlUWhile clubs are p
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Risking My Life To Settle A Physics Debate
245 views / 0 likes - addedEveryone will say this craft breaks the laws of physics. This video is sponsored by Kiwico, For 50% off your first month of any subscription crate from KiwiCo (available in 40 countries!) head to https://www.kiwico.com/Veritasium50 A HUGE thanks to Rick a
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How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World (w/ SciShow!)
637 views / 0 likes - addedTry CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Check out SciShow's video on Lake Agassiz: https://youtu.be/qMVhR26NRsk Strange geologic landmarks in the Pacific Northwest are the lingering remains of a mystery that took nearly half a century t
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How Plants Became Carnivores
414 views / 1 likes - addedGo check out Overview on PBS Terra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHMZwaopAaIDeep Looks episode on Sundews! https://youtu.be/D4kBrsyWhS4How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants n
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The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
542 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Sound Field: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMLMyKPomE6kTTL9Kv8Iww Back in the late Miocene epoch, there was an island--or maybe a group of islands-- in the Mediterranean Sea that was populated with fantastic giant beasts. It’s a lesson in th
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The Genius of 3D Printed Rockets
182 views / 0 likes - added3D printed rockets save on up front tooling, enable rapid iteration, decrease part count, and facilitate radically new designs. For your chance to win 2 seats on one of the first Virgin Galactic flights to Space and support a great cause, go to https://ww
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The Sea Monster from the Andes
437 views / 0 likes - addedIn 1977, a farmer was plowing his field on a plateau high in the Andes mountains when he stumbled upon a giant fossilized skeleton.How did this giant marine reptile end up high in the Andes Mountains?Spanish subtitles/CC by Carlos J. Pardo De la Hoz.Thank
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The Mystery Behind the Biggest Bears of All Time
484 views / 0 likes - addedOur new shirt! https://store.dftba.com/products/eons-pocket-shirt The short-faced bears turned out to be remarkably adaptable, undergoing radical changes to meet the demands of two changing continents. And yet, for reasons we don’t quite understand, their
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When Hobbits Were Real
425 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to Raycon wireless earphones for supporting PBS. Go to http://buyraycon.com/eons to learn more.Subscribe to Sound Field: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvMLMyKPomE6kTTL9Kv8IwwIts discoverers named it Homo floresiensis, but its often called the ho
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When Rodents Had Horns
349 views / 0 likes - addedThese odd rodents belong to a genus known as Ceratogaulus, but theyre more commonly called horned gophers, because, you guessed it, they had horns.And it turns out the horns probably had a purpose - one that rodents would likely benefit from today.Samanth
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How a Hot Planet Created the World's Biggest Snake
618 views / 5 likes - addedAbout 59 million years ago, the largest animal lurking in the ancient forests of Colombia by far was Titanoboa - the largest snake ever known. Its only been in the past few years that weve put together the many pieces of this puzzling creature, but it tur
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The Croc That Ran on Hooves
425 views / 0 likes - addedOur Pocket Shirt!: https://store.dftba.com/collections/eons/products/eons-pocket-shirt In the Eocene Epoch, there was a reptile that had teeth equipped for biting through flesh, its hind legs were a lot longer than its front legs and instead of claws, its
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Why Robots That Bend Are Better
307 views / 0 likes - addedRobots of the future may be softer, squishier and bendier than robots today. This could make them ideal for space exploration. Check out http://kiwico.com/Veritasium50 for 50% off your first month of any subscription!On Thursday February 18th, 2021 the NA
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How Plants Caused the First Mass Extinction
395 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtube.com/microcosmosIn the middle of the Cambrian, life on land was about to get a little more crowded. And those newcomers would end up changing the world. The arrival of plants on land would make the worl
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We Built An Unrideable Bike To Show How Bikes Work
878 views / 2 likes - addedWhy are bicycles stable? The most common answer is gyroscopic effects, but this is not right. This video was sponsored by Kiwico. Get 50% off your first month of any crate at https://kiwico.com/veritasium50Huge thanks to Rick Cavallaro for creating this b
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STRAPPED INTO A FALLING HELICOPTER - Smarter Every Day 154
625 views / 0 likes - addedClick to get a Kiwi Crate Subscription for a kid you love: http://bit.ly/SmarterKiwiCrate Click here if you're interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED Want to tweet this? http://bit.ly/ChopperFall ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ⇊ Click bel
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09:31
The Two Viruses That Weve Had For Millions of Years
331 views / 0 likes - addedTheres one kind of herpesvirus thats specific to one species of primate, and each virus split off from the herpesvirus family tree when the primate split off from its own tree. But of course, humans are a special kind of primate.Here are the two studies w
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20:58
The Secret of Synchronization
211 views / 0 likes - addedHow does order spontaneously arise out of chaos? This video is sponsored by Kiwico go to https://www.kiwico.com/Veritasium50 for 50% off your first month of any crate.An enormous thanks to Prof. Steven Strogatz this video would not have been possible with
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When Antarctica Was Green
427 views / 0 likes - addedHelp Eons out and fill out this survey! https://www.pbsresearch.org/c/r/Eons_YTvideoBefore the start of the Eocene Epoch about 56 million years ago--Antarctica was still joined to both Australia and South America. Andit turns out that a lot of what we rec
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09:56
The First and Last North American Primates
389 views / 0 likes - addedHow To Vote in Every State: https://youtube.com/HowToVoteInEveryStateEarly primates not only lived in North America -- our primate family tree actually originated here! So what happened to those early relatives of ours? Thank you to these paleoartists for
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Did Raptorex Really Exist?
506 views / 0 likes - addedTry CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Paleontologists have been studying and drawing totally different conclusions about the fossil LH PV18 for almost a decade. Is it just one of many specimens of a theropod called Tarbosaurus bataar
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07:25
The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived
462 views / 0 likes - addedUntangling 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.Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrati
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11:56
Did The Past Really Happen?
681 views / 2 likes - addedGreece is full of wonderful new things and wonderful old things. But when WE become old things, will our ruins also be tourist attractions? **Sources and extra info below!!** me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce on instagram: http://www.instag
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14:30
This Unstoppable Robot Could Save Your Life
264 views / 0 likes - addedThis robot has applications to archaeology, space exploration, and search and rescue with a simple elegant design inspired by a plant. Sign up to Morning Brew for free today: https://ve42.co/mbMake your own Vine Robot! https://www.vinerobots.orgSpecial th
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09:11
When Insects First Flew
521 views / 0 likes - addedInsects were the first animals to ever develop the ability to fly, and, arguably, they did it the best. But this development was so unusual that scientists are still/working on, and arguing about, how and when insect wings first came about. Special thanks
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11:48
Can We Get DNA From Fossils?
557 views / 0 likes - addedIn 1993, scientists cracked open a piece of amber, took out the body of an ancient weevil, and sampled its DNA. Or, at least, so we thought. It took another few decades of research, and a lot of take-backs, before scientists could figure out how we could
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22:09
The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve
320 views / 0 likes - addedThe Collatz Conjecture is the simplest math problem no one can solve it is easy enough for almost anyone to understand but notoriously difficult to solve. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veri
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09:38
The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
668 views / 0 likes - addedYou can go to https://wix.com/go/eons to get started on your website! A huge and diverse subfamily of dogs, the bone-crushers patrolled North America for more than thirty million years, before they disappeared in the not-too-distant past. So what happened
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12:41
When Sharks Swam the Great Plains
414 views / 2 likes - addedCheck out Origin of Everything: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiB8h9jD2Mlxx96ZFnGDSJw If you’ve ever been to, or lived in, or even flown over the central swath of North America, then you’ve seen the remnants of what was a uniquely fascinating environme
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08:32
The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats
494 views / 0 likes - addedLearn more about ExpressVPN: https://www.expressvpn.com/eonsAll of todays big cat species evolved less than 11 million years ago and yet their evolutionary history remains an almost total mystery. But scientists have recently discovered a major clue about
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10:01
How Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
534 views / 0 likes - addedThe PBSDS Annual Audience Survey: https://to.pbs.org/2018YTSurvey The ancestors of modern horses became so successful that they spread all over the world, to Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. But in their native range of North America, they’ll vani
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10:12
When Camels Roamed North America
435 views / 1 likes - addedCamels are famous for adaptations that have allowed them to flourish where most other large mammals would perish. But their story begins over 40 million years ago in North America, and in an environment you’d never expect: a rainforest. Special thanks t
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09:39
How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils
587 views / 0 likes - addedOne of the most dynamic, transformative, and potentially dangerous features in North America is also responsible for some of the continent’s most amazing fossil deposits. It’s a supervolcano we now call Yellowstone. Thanks to Rick Otto and the Ashfall Fos
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09:32
The Two People We're All Related To
372 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Two Cents: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL8w_A8p8P1HWI3k6PR5Z6w Due to an odd quirk of genetics and some unique evolutionary circumstances, two humans who lived at different times in the distant past managed to pass on a very small fraction
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Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
1,360 views / 11 likes - addedFor more than 10 million years, Megalodon was at the top of its game as the oceans’ apex predator...until 2.6 million years ago, when it went extinct. So, what happened to the largest shark in history? Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us
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07:37
I went to space and discovered an enormous lie | Ron Garan
122 views / 0 likes - addedWhat astronaut Ron Garan saw in space changed his life forever heres what it taught him. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1Up next, Neil deGrasse Tyson: 3 mind-blowing space facts
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14:36
The History of Climate Cycles (and the Woolly Rhino) Explained
407 views / 0 likes - addedLearn more about Hack the Moon at https://wehackthemoon.comCheck out Reactionss Summer of Space video on the Northern Lights! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S_LPFOa-zsThroughout the Pleistocene Epoch, the range of the woolly rhino grew and shrank in syn
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12:22
When Birds Had Teeth
461 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out ReInventors: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzZRoStdiqWxauQT2RGW1Lg Experts are still arguing over whether Archaeopteryx was a true bird, or a paravian dinosaur, or some other kind of dino. But regardless of what side you’re on, how did this f
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27:16
How Do Night Vision Goggles Work? (There's 3 types)
110 views / 1 likes - addedWe visited the US Navy to test the best night vision goggles in the world. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.If youre looking for a molecular model
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23:29
How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented
304 views / 0 likes - addedA general solution to the cubic equation was long considered impossible, until we gave up the requirement that math reflect reality. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a y
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10:53 Popular
When Giant Amphibians Reigned
863 views / 1 likes - addedTry CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Temnospondyls were a huge group of amphibians that existed for 210 million years. And calling them ‘diverse’ would be putting it mildly. Yet in the end, two major threats would push them to extinc
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14:48
The Big Misconception About Electricity
194 views / 0 likes - addedThe misconception is that electrons carry potential energy around a complete conducting loop, transferring their energy to the load. This video was sponsored by Caséta by Lutron. Learn more at https://Lutron.com/veritasium Further analysis of the l
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17:17
The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment
218 views / 0 likes - addedIf you ran evolution all over again, would you get humans? How repeatable is #evolution? This video is sponsored by @BountyBrand. #biology #science #QPU #HygieneBeginswithBounty #BountyPartnerSpecial thanks to Prof. Richard Lenski and team for showing me
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14:27
The Biggest Myth In Education
271 views / 0 likes - addedYou are not a visual learner learning styles are a stubborn myth. Part of this video is sponsored by Google Search.Special thanks to Prof. Daniel Willingham for the interview and being part of this video.Special thanks to Dr Helen Georigou for reviewing t
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09:48
The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
395 views / 0 likes - addedYou can check out Google's Science Journal app at https://g.co/sciencejournal 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 coun
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12:21
How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
569 views / 0 likes - addedThe 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? Thanks to Ceri Thom
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There's a Hole at the Bottom of Math
418 views / 1 likes - addedNot everything that is true can be proven. This discovery transformed infinity, changed the course of a world war and led to the modern computer. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium ge
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12:10 Popular
How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
757 views / 0 likes - addedWatch the Deep Time Hall livestream here:https://www.facebook.com/EonsPBS/videos/424570291712824You can set a reminder on that post to be notified when it goes live!Dont forget to check out When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time: https://www.pbs.org/tp
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07:32
When Birds Stopped Flying
520 views / 0 likes - addedSupport us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/eons Ratites have spread to Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. And there are fossils of Ratites in Europe, Asia, and North America too. That’s a lot of ground to cover for birds that can’t fly. So
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POOR Student Is MOCKED By MILLIONAIRES, What Happens Next Is Shocking | Dhar Mann Studios
315 views / 0 likes - addedDon't forget to SUBSCRIBE to my channel by clicking here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_hK9fOxyy_TM8FJGXIyG8Q?sub_confirmation=1 Watch my favorite videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnBCOhf_VBTVGGC7OryYH7wO87PCostB3REMEMBER - We're not jus
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10:17
The Missing Link That Wasn't
398 views / 1 likes - addedThe myth of the Missing Link--the idea that there must be a specimen that partly resembles an ape but also partly resembles a modern human--is persistent. But the reality is that there is no missing link in our lineage, because thats not how evolution wor
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12:22
The Humans That Lived Before Us
421 views / 1 likes - addedAs more and more fossil ancestors have been found, our genus has become more and more inclusive, incorporating more members that look less like us, Homo sapiens. By getting to know these other hominins--the ones who came before us--we can start to answer
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08:55
When Apes Conquered Europe
488 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Origin of Everything: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiB8h9jD2Mlxx96ZFnGDSJw Today, our closest evolutionary relatives, the apes, live only in small pockets of Africa and Asia. But back in the Miocene epoch, apes occupied all of Europe. Why ar
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10:28
How Blood Evolved (Many Times)
551 views / 0 likes - addedBlood is one of the most revolutionary features in our evolutionary history. Over hundreds of millions of years, the way in which blood does its job has changed over and over again. As a result, we animals have our familiar red blood. But also blue blood.
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12:26
Your Place in the Primate Family Tree
464 views / 0 likes - addedOur new sticker is available here: https://store.dftba.com/collections/eons And check out Tacos of Texas!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh_qdzak59m68-i4M441Rkr5j8c_mQ-en Purgatorius, a kind of mammal called a plesiadapiform, might’ve been one of
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20:51
Boy Will Not SHOW His FACE Inside School, What Happens Next Is Shocking | Dhar Mann Studios
333 views / 3 likes - addedDownload Genshin Impact for free here! https://hoyo.link/2fAhFGAL And here's a gift code that includes 60*primogems & 5*adventurer's experience :)Gift Code: CT2BDW7JD38M(valid until 29th MAR 08:00 am PST)Thank you to @GenshinImpact for sponsoring this vid
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08:34
The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake
564 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out America from Scratch: https://www.youtube.com/americafromscratch In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully pr
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09:17
China and India Shock NASA By Turning Earth More Green Than Before
488 views / 0 likes - addedFollow me on Twitter for my science stuff: https://twitter.com/WhatDaMath Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a NASA discovery from a few months back that suggest China and India have replanted a tremendous amount of
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12:15
The Island of Shrinking Mammoths
406 views / 1 likes - addedYou can check out Google's Science Journal app at https://g.co/sciencejournal The mammoths fossils found on the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California are much smaller than their relatives found on the mainland. They were so small that they
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12:16
When We First Walked
451 views / 0 likes - addedTry CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Fossilized footprints have proved that human ancestors were already striding across the landscape 3.6 million years ago. But who started them on that path? What species pioneered this style of loc
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10:10
When We First Made Tools
447 views / 0 likes - addedTry CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons The tools made by our human ancestors may not seem like much when you compare them to the screen you’re looking at right now but their creation represents a pivotal moment in the origin of technol
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12:57
When We Tamed Fire
511 views / 0 likes - addedOur new shirt! https://store.dftba.com/products/eons-pocket-shirt The Best-Of Nature League: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZftFO1i4jNijeKInnCZXTYg9l3HVlbXl The ability to make and use fire has fundamentally changed the arc of our evolution. The
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Why You're Probably Not a Simulation
572 views / 0 likes - addedHave you ever have a dream you were so sure was real? The simulation argument challenges our very notions of reality by asking whether everything we perceive is nothing more than an elaborate computer simulation. Recently, we've even seen headlines like "
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10:20
When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
394 views / 0 likes - addedSupport us on Patreon! http://patreon.com/eons The best evidence we have suggests that, while Caviomorpha originated in South America, they came from ancestors in Africa, over 40 million years ago. So how did they get there? Thanks to Ceri Thomas for the
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23:03
The Universe is Hostile to Computers
180 views / 0 likes - addedTiny particles from distant galaxies have caused plane accidents, election interference and game glitches. This video is sponsored by Brilliant. The first 200 people to sign up via https://brilliant.org/veritasium get 20% off a yearly subscription.This vi
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07:41 Popular
How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms
807 views / 0 likes - addedSupport us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/eons Tyrannosaurus rex was big, Tyrannosaurus rex was vicious, and Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms. The story of how T-Rex lost its arms is, itself, pretty simple. But the story of why it kept those little limbs,
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When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
526 views / 2 likes - addedTry Audible for 30 days visit https://www.audible.com/eons or text eons to 500500! Sea scorpions thrived for 200 million years, coming in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Over time, they developed a number of adaptations--from crushing claws to flatten
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09:52
When Humans Were Prey
479 views / 0 likes - addedNot too long ago, our early human ancestors were under constant threat of attack from predators. And it turns out that this difficult chapter in our history may be responsible for the adaptations that allowed us to become so successful. Thanks to Julio La
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When Fish Wore Armor
516 views / 0 likes - addedCheck out Hot Mess: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsaEBhRsI6tmmz12fkSEYdw 420 million years ago, some fish were more medieval. They wore armor, sometimes made of big plates, and sometimes made of interlocking scales. But that armor may actually have se
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