Archeology / Paleontology
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Here's Why Dogs Were So Important to Ancient Egyptians
/ 563 viewsArchaeological evidence at the ancient Egyptian site of Hierakonpolis reveals the status of the king's hunting dogs - to the extent that when the king died, they were often buried alongside him. From the Series: Secrets: Beasts of the Pharaohs http://bit.
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Could You Survive In Ancient Egypt?
/ 917 viewsPyramids, the Nile River, and strange worms. The Life Noggin gang travel to ancient Egypt in this Deblocked Episode. Watch more: “Trapped In Space” ►►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PevXm5qYCk Subscribe: https://bit.ly/SubLifeNoggin | Get your exclusive
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You Are A Fish
/ 490 viewsWe built the Tree of Life Explorer! Check it out here: https://labs.minutelabs.io/Tree-of-Life-Explorer/ And watch our video about why we made it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eE2fCLay-Q With our current understanding of evolutionary history and our s
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How scientists solved this dinosaur puzzle
/ 456 viewsWe’ve never found a fully intact T. Rex, but we know how to build one. This video is presented by Wix: https://www.wix.com/go/vox Join the Video Lab! http://bit.ly/video-lab When paleontologists uncover a dinosaur they usually only find part of the animal
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The true story of Mary Anning: The girl who helped discover dinosaurs | BBC Ideas
/ 1,022 viewsThe story of Mary Anning, a fossil collector and palaeontologist who changed scientific thinking worldwide – but didn’t get recognition for her work at the time. Subscribe to BBC Ideas https://bbc.in/2F6ipav This beautiful animation was made using sand fr
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How 7,000 Years of Epic Floods Changed the World (w/ SciShow!)
/ 624 viewsTry 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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A brief history of dogs - David Ian Howe
/ 942 viewsTrace the history of how wolves, one of humanity’s oldest rivals, evolved into the domesticated dogs we call “man’s best friend.” -- Since their emergence over 200,000 years ago, modern humans have established communities all over the planet. But they did
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When We First Made Tools
/ 441 viewsTry 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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The Giant Bird That Got Lost in Time
/ 464 viewsThe 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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The Island of Huge Hamsters and Giant Owls
/ 534 viewsCheck 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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Primitive Technology: Grass thatch, Mud hut
/ 491 viewsPrimitive Technology: Grass thatch, Mud hut - Creating a grass thatch, mud hut from scratch. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subPT | Never miss a video! Enable ‘ALL’ Notifications! More videos, watch me make stone yam planters: https://youtube.com/wa
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♪ Why Are Dogs "Man's Best Friend"? | EVERY SINGLE THING
/ 598 viewsDogs are definitely 'man's best friend', but why?? How did dogs become our closest pet friends?? LYRICS: They’re in our homes, they’re on the bed. They’re mixed, or fixed, or purist bred. They’re cute, they’re strong, and past widespread. What lead to the
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What Will Humans Look Like In A Million Years? | Earth Lab
/ 633 viewsGreg Foot explains how our ancestors evolved over the last one million years and suggests some potential changes that may happen to our species in the future. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToEarthLab Welcome to BBC Earth Lab! Here we answer all your c
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Can Science Tell Us How Humans Will Evolve? | Earth Lab
/ 374 viewsEvery species is constantly evolving, but can science tell us what human evolution will look like? Best of Earth Lab: http://bit.ly/EarthLabOriginals Best of BBC Earth: http://bit.ly/TheBestOfBBCEarthVideos The Doctors Are In The House: http://bit.ly/TheD
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Are Cosmetically Engineered Babies Changing The Course Of Evolution? | Earth Lab
/ 422 viewsIt's now possible to modify the genes in embryos to alter the genes for their cosmetic trait Best of Earth Lab: http://bit.ly/EarthLabOriginals Best of BBC Earth: http://bit.ly/TheBestOfBBCEarthVideos The Doctors Are In The House: http://bit.ly/TheDoctors
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The Birds That Have Lived for 44 Million Years | Africa | BBC
/ 780 viewsThe Picathartes have lived in the Congo for 44 million years. When these birds mate they mate for life therefore they have to make a good team. Taken from Africa. Subscribe to BBC Earth: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSubBBC Earth YouTube Channel: http://www.youtu
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The Origin of Consciousness – How Unaware Things Became Aware
/ 560 viewsSources and link to book by Rupert Glasgow: https://sites.google.com/view/sources-consciousness Consciousness is perhaps the biggest riddle in nature. In the first part of this three part video series, we explore the origins of consciousness and take a cl
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Ancient switch to soft food made saying certain words easier
/ 404 viewsChange in human diet may have changed human speech Read the story: https://scim.ag/2T2oh8c Read the research: https://scim.ag/2XSt0Nr Credits editor/narrator Meagan Cantwell supervising producer Sarah Crespi animations Meagan Cantwell Chris Burns citation
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Are dinosaurs still alive today?
/ 977 viewsAll dinosaurs went extinct during the Cretaceous era, right? Wrong! Paleontologist Aki Watanabe explains how birds are evolved from dinosaurs, and how T. rex had more in common with a turkey than a turtle. If you want to know if life exists elsewhere in t
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Christmas Lectures 2018: What Makes Me, Me? - Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght
/ 466 viewsWhat makes humans human? And what makes every person an individual? Watch more Christmas Lectures: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description Due to copyright restrictions, we are not able to inc
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Christmas Lectures 2018: What Makes Me Human? - Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght
/ 483 viewsIn the second lecture of the 2018 Christmas Lectures Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght explore human evolution. Watch more Christmas Lectures: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_term=description Due to co
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We May Have Just Unlocked a Secret to How Life Started on Earth
/ 451 viewsScientists have been trying to piece together the chemical recipe for how the building blocks of life originated. Now, they may have found it. A New Genetic Alphabet Is Creating Things Nature Has Never Seen - https://youtu.be/X3uHfRVjVVI Read More: Chemis
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How Did Roboticists Get This Ancient Fossil To Walk?
/ 361 viewsAdvanced computer tomography scans are changing the way paleontologists are studying ancient life and “OroBOT” may be just the beginning. How Did Science Get Neanderthals So Wrong? - https://youtu.be/VAaTaZqleeY Read More: Reverse Engineering the Locomoti
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What's The Largest Thing To Ever Live On Earth? DEBUNKED
/ 478 viewsWe look at the largest things to have ever lived on our planet, and it doesn’t stop with the Blue Whale or the Patagotitan! Join us as we debunk one of the biggest misconceptions in the world! Thanks to our Patreon Supporters, and Special Thanks to Chris
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The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
/ 387 viewsYou 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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The Island of Shrinking Mammoths
/ 397 viewsYou 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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How do you find dinosaur fossils?
/ 470 viewsIn popular culture, paleontologists are often seen brushing sand off of a complete dinosaur skeleton with ease—but is digging for dinosaurs really that easy? Paleontologist Aki Watanabe reveals what really goes on during a fossil finding expedition. Spoil
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What Did a Baby T. rex Look Like?
/ 494 viewsDid you know that when Tyrannosaurus rex was a hatchling it was most likely covered in fluffy feathers? Go behind the scenes of the new exhibition T. rex: The Ultimate Predator, which opens March 11 at the American Museum of Natural History, with paleonto
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How do we know an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago?
/ 539 viewsOne theory for why the dinosaurs went extinct is that an asteroid hit Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period. But since no one was alive to see it, how can we know that it really happened? Astrophysicist Jackie Faherty reveals how clues found in sedime
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Resurrecting the Genes of Extinct Plants
/ 428 viewsScientists at Ginkgo Bioworks have resurrected the smell of an extinct flower by putting together the pieces of its DNA. To learn more, read the "Ghost Flowers" by Rowan Jacobsen at https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fragrant-genes-of-extinct-flow
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Christmas Lectures 2018: Where Do I Come From? - Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght
/ 454 viewsIn the first lecture of the 2018 Christmas Lectures Alice Roberts and Aoife McLysaght explore the tree of life and see where humans come from. Watch more Christmas Lectures: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social
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How These Hummingbirds Turned Their Beaks Into Swords | ScienceTake
/ 385 viewsIn the South American tropics, where hummingbirds must compete for food, evolution has drastically reshaped their bills. They are thicker and more rigid, often with a hook on the end. In some cases, they have jagged points, like rows of teeth — all the be
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What Fossils Reveal about Today's Climate Change
/ 484 viewsDr. Scott Wing spent a decade combing the hills in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming to find fossil evidence of an extinction event that occurred in the Southern Ocean of Antarctica, 56 million years ago. Here, we talk with him and Dr. Kirk Johnson about how s
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Did an asteroid kill the dinosaurs?
/ 453 viewsAround 66 million years ago, all non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. Was the culprit a 6-mile wide asteroid that collided with Earth? Or did other factors contribute to the dinosaurs’ die-off? Paleontologist Aki Watanabe looks at other theories for wh
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Incredible Animation Shows How Humans Evolved From Early Life
/ 962 viewsHumans have had a long history. 3.8 million years in the making, to be precise. From the primordial puddle to the modern day, here's how humans have evolved from the first life. The following is a review of the life forms depicted in the video: Prokaryote
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The Humans That Lived Before Us
/ 411 viewsAs 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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StoryBots | Dinosaur Songs For Kids: T-Rex, Velociraptor | Learn with songs | Kids Cartoons
/ 1,192 views► Subscribe for more StoryBots videos - http://bit.ly/2B7fN6F The StoryBots are curious little creatures who live beneath our screens, offering a world of learning and fun for kids and parents. From Starring You® videos and books that make your child the
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Why are Fossil Shark Skeletons So Rare?
/ 502 viewsHappy Shark Week! Shark teeth are among the most common vertebrate fossils you can find, and yet fossilized shark skeletons are harder to come by. Paleontologist and Curator Emeritus John Maisey explains how sharks' cartilaginous skeletons differ from tho
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Swimming With Giants 360
/ 659 viewsEarth’s oceans have been home to giant animals for hundreds of millions of years, but we know surprisingly little about their daily lives. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to swim with some of these giants of the deep? Dive into this video to
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How Has Disease Helped Humans Evolve? | Earth Lab
/ 629 viewsDiseases have been one of the biggest drivers of evolution by favouring genetic mutations. Best of Earth Lab: http://bit.ly/EarthLabOriginals Best of BBC Earth: http://bit.ly/TheBestOfBBCEarthVideos The Doctors Are In The House: http://bit.ly/TheDoctorsAr
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10 Strangest Things Discovered In The Ocean
/ 649 viewsThe ocean is and very mysterious and endless place, where many mysteries lie waiting for people to uncover them. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TopTrending Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TopTrending Commentator: http://www.youtub
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Mosasaurs 101 | National Geographic
/ 947 viewsMosasaurs were Earth's last great marine reptiles. Learn about the surprising places they'd hunt, how some species dwarfed even the Tyrannosaurus rex, and how key physical adaptations allowed these reptiles to become a prehistoric apex predator. ➡ Subscri
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Bringing a fossil to life: Reverse engineering locomotion
/ 446 viewsYou can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti. Orobates lived well before the time of the dinosaurs and is what’s cal
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Primitive Technology: Stone Yam planters
/ 599 viewsPrimitive Technology: Stone Yam planters - Creating Stone planters for Yams from scratch. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/subPT | Never miss a video! Enable ‘ALL’ Notifications! More videos, watch me cultivate and cook yams: https://youtube.com/watch
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How Blood Evolved (Many Times)
/ 540 viewsBlood 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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When Humans Were Prey
/ 467 viewsNot 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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Why Megalodon (Definitely) Went Extinct
/ 1,336 viewsFor 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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When Apes Conquered Europe
/ 479 viewsCheck 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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Enter Toledo, the Spanish City of Swords
/ 589 viewsToledo, an ancient walled city in central Spain, has been the center of sword making for thousands of years. The city’s weaponry history dates back to the Roman Empire, when emperors took a liking to the blades crafted in Toledo due to their strengt
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How Much Taller Humans Have Grown Over 100 Years
/ 604 viewsHumans have grown dramatically taller over recent years as a result of genetics, nutritional improvements, better sanitation, and more. Check out the countries where people have grown the most in the past 100 years. ---------------------------------------
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Dogs 10,000 Years Ago
/ 1,747 viewsThis videos explores how dogs might have looked over 10,000 years ago.
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Who Lived on Earth 100,000 Years Ago?
/ 873 viewsDid you ever wonder who was living on earth 100,000 years ago?
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The history of the world according to cats - Eva-Maria Geigl
/ 640 viewsSign up for our newsletter and never miss an animation: http://bit.ly/TEDEdNewsletter View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-history-of-the-world-according-to-cats-eva-maria-geigl In ancient times, wildcats were fierce carnivorous hunters. And u
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Has Human Technology Kept Us from Evolving? | Earth Lab
/ 430 viewsBest of Earth Lab: http://bit.ly/EarthLabOriginals Best of BBC Earth: http://bit.ly/TheBestOfBBCEarthVideos The Doctors Are In The House: http://bit.ly/TheDoctorsAreInTheHouse Horizon: Are We Still Evolving? Dr Alice Roberts asks one of the great question
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How Did Science Get Neanderthals So Wrong?
/ 460 viewsNew neanderthal research adds to the changing image of these early hominids, and they’re not at all what we thought. Ancient Humans & Neanderthals Had Sex, Here's How It Changed Us Forever - https://youtu.be/ifSv1jXUzn4 Get 20% off http://www.domain.com d
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Discovering the Past Through Dinosaur Poop
/ 548 viewsPlease support our videos http://www.patreon.com/scifri Although the praire outside of Choteau, Montana is best known as the fossil quarry that provided definitive paleontological insights into the parenting habits of dinosaurs, it’s also the perfec
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Who Invented the Alphabet? | COLOSSAL QUESTIONS
/ 1,601 viewsHave you ever been reading a particularly dense book or writing an extra long essay and wondered: who came up with the alphabet in the first place?? Images used under license from Shutterstock.com Welcome to COLOSSAL QUESTIONS, the show that answers all o
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Building a Wigwam (Time Lapse)
/ 570 viewsFunding for the wigwam generously provided by the Vernon D. and Florence E. Roosa Family Foundation Memorial Fund of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and by the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area. Wigwam authentically designed and constr
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The Age of Giant Insects
/ 494 viewsSignup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/PeiY30egcZN Insects outnumber humans by a lot and we only like to think we're in charge because we're bigger than they are. But insects and other arthropods weren’t always so small. A
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Dimetrodon: Our Most Unlikely Ancestor
/ 460 viewsCheck out The Great Courses Plus! http://ow.ly/iBxG30egcx9 With its lizard-like appearance and that distinctive sail on it back, Dimetrodon is practically the mascot of the Palaeozoic Era, a time before flowers, birds, mammals, and even crocodiles. But if
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That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything
/ 371 viewsViewers like you help make PBS (Thank you
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What Colors Were Dinosaurs?
/ 724 viewsWe know a lot about dinosaurs but there’s one question that has plagued paleontologists for decades: what color were they? Go to http://squarespace.com/eons and use code “EONS” for 10% off your first order. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studi
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When Sharks Swam the Great Plains
/ 407 viewsCheck 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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How Sloths Went From the Seas to the Trees
/ 560 viewsThe 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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When Camels Roamed North America
/ 428 viewsCamels 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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When Birds Stopped Flying
/ 514 viewsSupport 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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When Rodents Rafted Across the Ocean
/ 388 viewsSupport 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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What Was The Deadliest Dinosaur? | Jurassic World presents COLOSSAL QUESTIONS
/ 2,677 viewsToday’s carnivorous question is brought to us by Jurassic World, and it’s a doozy: what’s the absolute deadliest dinosaur to ever live?? Images used under license from Shutterstock.com Welcome to COLOSSAL QUESTIONS, the show that answers all of life's mos
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Seven Million Years of Human Evolution
/ 551 viewsScientists use fossils to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hominins—the group that includes modern humans, our immediate ancestors, and other extinct relatives. Today, our closest living relatives are chimpanzees, but extinct hominins are eve
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The Dinosaur On Your Thanksgiving Table
/ 366 viewsFollow me to Science Magic Show Hooray! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-idW62ibWQ SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ Eating turkey this holiday season? Chowing down on a roast chicken? You
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Massive crater under Greenland's ice points to climate-altering impact in the time of humans
/ 434 viewsThe 31-kilometer-wide Hiawatha crater may have formed as recently as 12,800 years ago when a 1.5-kilometer asteroid struck Earth Read more: https://scim.ag/2TdJFbW Read the research: https://scim.ag/2OJML3I Credits editor/animator/narrator Meagan Cantwell
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What sounds did dinosaurs make? ft. Joe Hanson
/ 679 viewsDespite what you’ve seen in the movies, dinosaurs probably didn’t roar. And they may have come in a rainbow of colors. Subscribe to Science Magic Show Hooray! https://bit.ly/2LLNAci Follow me to It's Okay To Be Smart! https://youtu.be/gQJHuG1Byj0 Fossil e
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Your Place in the Primate Family Tree
/ 452 viewsOur 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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Ogham is an old Irish scrip ᚛ᚈᚑᚋ ᚄᚉᚑᚈᚈ᚜ and ᚛ᚑᚌᚐᚋ᚜
/ 854 viewsOgham is an old Irish script made by carving notches into stones. It fell out of use more than a millennium ago - but it's an interesting exception to a linguistics and computer-science rule that I'd never even realised existed. Let's talk about the Ogham
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The Two People We're All Related To
/ 364 viewsCheck 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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StoryBots | Dinosaur Songs: T-Rex, Velociraptor & more | Learn with music for kids
/ 910 views► Subscribe for more StoryBots videos - http://bit.ly/2B7fN6F The StoryBots are curious little creatures who live beneath our screens, offering a world of learning and fun for kids and parents. From Starring You® videos and books that make your child the
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StoryBots Dinosaur Songs | Apatosaurus, Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor and Stegosaurus
/ 1,043 viewsDance, rap and strut along while learning about different dinosaurs! The StoryBots are curious little creatures who live beneath our screens, offering a world of learning and fun for kids, parents and teachers. Explore the StoryBots universe of educationa
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How Were Mummies Made? | COLOSSAL QUESTIONS
/ 1,835 viewsMummies are much more morbid than most other mythic monsters for one main reason: they’re real!! What exactly are mummies, and how are they made?? → Credits ← Welcome to COLOSSAL QUESTIONS, the show that answers all of life's most pressing questions! Narr
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Neanderthals used their hands like tailors and painters
/ 397 viewsOur closest cousins used a precise grip more often than some of our direct ancestors Read more: https://scim.ag/2zvrOoY Read the research: https://scim.ag/2IhvEEP Credits editor/animator/narrator Meagan Cantwell supervising producers Sarah Crespi and Chri
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What is the Evidence for Evolution?
/ 1,480 viewsSupport Stated Clearly on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statedclearly Biologists teach that all living things on Earth are related. Is there any solid evidence to back this claim? Join us as we explore the facts! We start with a close look at the origi
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What is Evolution?
/ 1,925 viewsSupport Stated Clearly on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statedclearly Evolution is often considered a complex and controversial topic but it's actually a very simple concept to understand. Watch this short animation to see how evolution works. Share it
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Does the Theory of Evolution Really Matter?
/ 606 viewsSupport Stated Clearly on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statedclearly Students who may be disinterested or uncomfortable with the science of evolution often wonder why it is worth their time and effort to understand. Stated Clearly and Emory University
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Can Science Explain the Origin of Life?
/ 661 viewsSupport Stated Clearly on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/statedclearly Darwin's theory of biological evolution helps us understand how simple life forms can give rise to complex lifeforms, but how did the first reproducing creatures come about? The orig
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What Was The Miller-Urey Experiment?
/ 740 viewsClick this link to take a survey about this video: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X2D8D7R This animation was sponsored by the Center for Chemical Evolution, NSF, and NASA: http://centerforchemicalevolution.com/ Help support Stated Clearly on Patreon: http
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What Is the RNA World Hypothesis?
/ 1,204 viewsClick this link to take a survey about the video: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VS8SNBH All living creatures today reproduce and evolve using a complex gene-enzyme cycle. If we look at a cell, for example, information encoded in its genes is used to prod
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What Caused Life's Major Evolutionary Transitions?
/ 402 viewsJoin us as we explore the fascinating transition from early cells to multi-celled animals. This transition, as well as several other major evolutionary transitions, dramatically increased the complexity of lifeforms on our planet. If you enjoyed the show,
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Did Dinosaurs Ever Live Alongside Humans?
/ 575 viewsYou may have been told online or at special interest museums that dinosaurs once lived alongside humans, or maybe even still live today. Here we look closely at this claim, and discover what science can tell us. This animation was based partially on two w
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Soft Tissue Found Inside a Dinosaur Bone!
/ 460 viewsIn 2003, an exceptionally well preserved T. rex leg bone was unearthed in the Cretaceous rocks of Montana. Upon close examination, Dr. Mary Schweitzer found the bone to contain soft tissue inside - tiny blood vessels and proteins! Some claim that this is
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Top 10 Dinosaurs More Lethal Than T-Rex
/ 1,020 viewsWhen most of us think about the biggest and meanest of the dinosaurs – we think about the tyrannosaurus-rex. Join me as we look at the 10 dinosaurs that were just as lethal as the T rex. Subscribe for more! ► https://goo.gl/pgcoq1 ◄ Stay updated ► https:/
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When Giant Amphibians Reigned
/ 855 viewsTry 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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Why You're Related to Everybody Else
/ 306 viewsStart learning intuitively with Brilliant for 20% off by being of the first 200 people to sign up at http://brilliant.org/RealLifeLore/ Get RealLifeLore T-shirts here: http://standard.tv/reallifelore Please Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2dB7VTO Animations cour
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Can We Get DNA From Fossils?
/ 550 viewsIn 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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Did Raptorex Really Exist?
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Fossil Hunting in the BADLANDS!
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Robotic Dinosaur Stiggy CRUSHES Cement Wall | SCI-FI TEST LAB presented by Jurassic World
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PROOF...Dinosaurs had FEATHERS!
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The MOST FAMOUS DINOSAUR Tooth!
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3 Incredible Examples of Evolution Hidden In Your Body
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When We First Walked
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Robotic Stegosaurus Tail SMASHES Watermelon | SCI-FI TEST LAB presented by Jurassic World
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The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
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How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils
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Is Jupiter the Reason for Life on Earth?
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The momentous transition to multicellular life may not have been so hard after all
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Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
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Primitive Technology: Iron prills
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How Horses Took Over North America (Twice)
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The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake
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Why do we have butts? | Anna's Science Magic Show Hooray!
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I Hit 3,000-Year-Old Art with a Hammer
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When Birds Had Teeth
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Is the Dinosaur-Apocalypse Story Wrong?
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Why Are There Penguins At The Equator?
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Cellular Cannibalism May Have Led to the Evolution of Everything, Including Us
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When Fish Wore Armor
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When Insects First Flew
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Every Dinosaur In 'Jurassic Park' Series Explained | WIRED
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Why Do Animals Have Tails?
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A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor - Elizabeth Cox
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The Similarity Trap
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Rise Of The Mesopredator
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Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Cement
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The Tallest Lifeforms Of All Time
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Where Did T Rex's Tiny Arms Come From?
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How Many Mass Extinctions Have Happened On Earth?
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The Deadpool Salamander Can Regenerate Entire Limbs
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How Evolution Turned A Possum Into A Wolf
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Which Life Form REALLY Dominates Earth?
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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a DINOSAUR!
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How the T-Rex Lost Its Arms
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When Fish First Breathed Air
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Where Did Viruses Come From?
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Why Triassic Animals Were Just the Weirdest
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How the Chalicothere Split In Two
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Primitive Technology: Yam, cultivate and cook
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5 Facts About Dinosaurs | Jurassic World presents 5 FACTS
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Human Population Through Time
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Why Isn't Pterodactyl a Dinosaur?
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The Science of Speciation – Molecular Adaptation in Vampire Bats
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The Squid and the Whale: Evidence for an Epic Encounter
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Exploring the Longest Cave System in Asia
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Did the Amazons really exist? - Adrienne Mayor
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How Humans Become the Dominant Species
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Top 10 Mysterious Bone Discoveries That Shocked The World
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Dig Into These Six Prehistoric Stories
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What Happened to the Dinosaurs?
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The Fossils in the Floor
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From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans
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That Time It Rained for Two Million Years
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Primitive Technology: Blower and charcoal
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This giraffe-sized pterodactyl has scientists' minds blown
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Paleoart: Painting the Land Before Time
/ 536 viewsThe Field Museum has a long history of hiring artists to help teach people about the dinosaurs and other early life on earth. Maybe you've heard of the famous painter Charles R. Knight -- but what about John Conrad Hansen, or Maidi Wiebe? After months of
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The Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus
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The Age of Reptiles in Three Acts
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Classroom Skeleton: Whose Bones Are These? | NPR's Skunk Bear
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These Crabs Have Been Crawling Before the Dinosaurs
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Snippet: Talking drums
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Top 10 Ancient Relics So Advanced They Shouldn't Exist
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Top 10 Most Bizarre Deep Sea Creatures Ever Discovered
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Primitive Technology: Round hut
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How the Squid Lost Its Shell
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What Was the Ancestor of Everything? (feat. PBS Space Time and It’s Okay To Be Smart)
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Inside the Dinosaur Library
/ 409 viewsYou can check out Google's Science Journal app at https://makingscience.withgoogle.com/science-journal We're back in Bozeman, Montana this week talking to Amy Atwater, Collections Manager at the Museum of the Rockies. MOR has among the largest collections
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The Other Explosion You Should Know About
/ 770 viewsFossils found around the world suggest that multi-cellular life was not only present before the Cambrian Explosion, it was much more elaborate and diverse than anyone thought. This is the story of the sudden burst of diversity that marked the dawn of trul
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From the Cambrian Explosion to the Great Dying
/ 538 viewsYou can go to https://Audible.com/Eons or text “Eons” to 500-500 to get started today with your 30-day trial membership with a free audiobook The first era of our current eon, the Paleozoic Era, is probably the most deceptively fascinating time in Earth’s
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This Aztec Whistle Is One Of The Scariest Sounds You'll Ever Hear
/ 757 viewsThis Aztec whistle is one of the scariest sounds you'll ever hear. We take a look at the Aztec whistle and the chilling sound it makes. When odd, skull-shaped grave items were found by archaeologists decades ago at an Aztec temple in Mexico, they were ass
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Musician Plays The Super Mario Bros Theme On A 3000 Year Old Instrument
/ 1,169 viewsIn Japan, it's called the "Shou." This instrument dates to 1100BC
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Rapid Evolution Is Real…These Species Changed in Front of Our Eyes
/ 619 viewsEvolution doesn’t have to take a hundred millennia. Some species can biologically adapt to new environments in a few short years, here’s how. Seeker is now on Prime Video! Watch here: https://www.amazon.com/v/seeker Read More: What is Darwin's Theory of E
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Time: The History & Future of Everything – Remastered
/ 636 viewsThe first 1000 people to use this link will get their first 2 months of skillshare for free: http://skl.sh/kurzgesagt2 Thanks a lot to Skillshare for supporting this channel. Kurzgesagt Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cRUQxz Support us on Patreon so we can
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The Stone Age Tribe on a Banned Island You Can't Visit
/ 680 viewsGet a free audiobook from Audible at http://audible.com/reallifelore Get the RealLifeLore book here: http://amzn.to/2ieJLyN Please Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2dB7VTO Music is by Brandon Maahs. Check out his website and music by clicking this link: http://ww
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This Paleo-Artist Recreates Our Early Ancestors
/ 420 viewsBone by bone, paleo-artsist John Gurche builds the life-like sculptures of our early ancestors. From the Series: Smithsonian Spotlight: Human Origins http://bit.ly/2gQl8bf
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How Was Red Rock Canyon Formed?
/ 790 viewsMillions of years ago, Las Vegas Valley laid at the bottom of an ancient sea. Movement of the earth's tectonic plates caused the water to drain and pushed up the land forming a towering structure known as Red Rock Canyon. From the Series: Aerial Cities: L
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Monkeys can make stone tools too
/ 708 viewsStone flakes made by capuchin monkeys look remarkably similar to stone tools made by early humans 2-3 million years ago, raising questions about the archaeological record. Read more in this news story: http://www.nature.com/news/monkey-tools-raise-questio
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Printing Lucy
/ 437 viewsResearchers believe they've discovered how Lucy, a 3.2 million year old human relative, died. To convince others of their theory, the researchers released 3D scans of Lucy's bones. In this Nature Video we 3D print Lucy's bones to see for ourselves. Read t
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Meet the 90-Year-Old Armchair Archaeologist | TED + GBS Present Torchbearers
/ 563 viewsSpace archaeologist Sarah Parcak is a modern-day Indiana Jones. She analyzes satellite imagery in order to find ancient sites hidden from view. With GlobalXplorer, an online platform using the power of the crowd to find, protect and monitor archaeological
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The Most Useful Fossils in the World
/ 1,168 viewsTry CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons For decades, one of the most abundant kinds of fossils on Earth, numbering in the millions of specimens, was a mystery to paleontologists. But geologists discovered that these mysterious fossils c
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SciArts: New Vision of Ancient Creatures
/ 532 viewshttp://www.patreon.com/scifri - Please Help Support Our Video Productions! Paleoartist and scientific illustrator Gabriel Ugueto has a golden rule for his work: Accuracy. In order to resurrect the dinosaurs, Ugueto begins with a single bone and works his
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‘The Great Dying’ Was Our Worst Extinction Ever, And It Could Happen Again
/ 516 viewsWhat exactly caused the greatest extinction on earth? New research may finally hold the answer to this long time mystery. Read More: Increased UV from ozone depletion sterilizes trees http://news.berkeley.edu/2018/02/07/increased-uv-from-ozone-depletion-s
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How the Oldest Rocks on Earth Changed History
/ 530 viewsGo to https://www.squarespace.com/scishow for a free trial and use the offer code SCISHOW to support this channel and save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Scientists have uncovered the oldest rocks from Earth, and they're shaking up wh
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Where Did Earth Come From?
/ 814 viewsEarth is a huge planet full of incredible sights and amazing creatures! But have you ever wondered where the Earth came from in the first place? Well, by looking at other stars and planets, scientists think they have a pretty good idea! ---------- Love Sc
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Snippet: Human migration over the centuries based on 86 million public genealogy profiles
/ 662 viewsBy mapping a set of crowd-sourced family trees, researchers were able to watch human migrations over the centuries and learn about changes in behavior over time--like changes in the distance traveled to find love. In the pre-industrial era, people tended
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What a Dinosaur Looks Like Under a Microscope
/ 712 viewsYou can check out Google's Science Journal app at https://makingscience.withgoogle.com/science-journal We traveled to Bozeman, Montana to meet with Dr. Ellen-Thérèse Lamm who explores ancient life by studying it at the cellular level. Kallie and Dr. Lamm
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How the Turtle Got Its Shell
/ 776 viewsWhere did turtles come from? And how did the they get their shells? The answers to these questions would eventually cause scientists to rethink the entire history of reptile evolution. Thanks as always to Nobumichi Tamura for allowing us to use his wonder