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Why Don't All Skeletons Become Fossils?

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Skeletons of ancient animals sometimes become fossilized. But if this happened to every animal that ever lived, wouldn’t we be swimming in a sea of fossils right now? BrainStuff explains why only a fraction of animal bones turn into fossils. Learn more at
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The Most Useful Fossils in the World

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Try 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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Completed Dinosaur Fossils Revealed

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All we have left of dinosaurs are their bones, but with much study, they have revealed a lot about their lives during prehistoric times. From Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils to Velociraptor fossils and many more, see how these remnants of the past have revealed
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Human Evolution: Crash Course Big History #6

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In which John Green and Hank Green teach you about how human primates moved out of Africa and turned Earth into a real-life Planet of the Apes. And the apes are people! John and Hank teach you about how humans evolved, and the sort of tricks they picked u
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What Were Minecraft Fossils?

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There aren't that many features in Minecraft that scream "this has lore". But fossils are definitely one of them. I mean SOMETHING had to die to result in a fossil, but what were minecraft fossils before they died? This is my scuffed game theory about jus
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Fossils: Rocking The Earth

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Use fossils, like clues buried inside of rocks, to unlock the history of life on our planet. Play the Evolution Lab: http://www.pbs.org/nova/labs/lab/evolution/ NOVA Labs Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theNOVALabs NOVA Labs Twitter: https://twitter.co
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The Fossils in the Floor

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NEW: #IStandWithUnionidBivalves shirts + stickers: http://bit.ly/29J9SJw This is my love letter to the little things in life-- like the fossils that can be found in the limestone tiles of the Field Museum. What's your version of the fossils in the floor?
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Our Ancient Human Cousins!

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If you traced your family tree back far enough, you'd see that you're related to all 7 billion people on Earth! And if you trace it back even farther than that you'll find our ancient human cousins, the Neanderthals! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want
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The Oldest Fossils Ever Found!

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Scientists have found fossils that show life appearing on Earth much earlier than we thought. Meanwhile, could there be a new fundamental force? Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scis
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How a Supervolcano Made the Cenozoic’s Coolest Fossils

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One 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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Seven Million Years of Human Evolution

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Scientists 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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Can We Get DNA From Fossils?

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In 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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Prehistoric Dinosaur Bird Fossils Found in China Are Amazingly Detailed | Smithsonian Channel

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The Liaoning Province of China has a reputation as a place where dinosaur fossils turn up on a regular basis in a remarkably preserved state. Many people think evolution happens in a very linear way. But the dinosaur bird fossils of Liaoning Province help
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Fossils 101 | National Geographic

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'Living Fossils' Aren't Really a Thing

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Crocodiles, horseshoe crabs and tuatara are animals that have persisted for millions of years, said to have gone unchanged since the days of the dinosaurs. But even the most ancient-looking organi
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The Oldest Plant-Like Fossils Ever

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Researchers might have discovered the 2 oldest plant-like fossils this week! Meanwhile, scientists learned more about another superpower of our favorite organism: tardigrades. Hosted by: Hank Green Get your Knowledge is Power shirt, poster and banner toda
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What Fossils Reveal about Today's Climate Change

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Dr. 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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When Humans Were Prey

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Not 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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How do you find dinosaur fossils?

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In 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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The Humans That Lived Before Us

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As 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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This Face Changes the Human Story

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Were on PATREON now! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmartSUBSCRIBE so you dont miss a video! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub More info and sources below Greetings, fellow Homo sapiens. Our species is the only remaining member of the genus o
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The Missing Link That Wasn't

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The 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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Fossils in amber offer an exquisite view on dinosaur timesand an ethical minefield

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Before scientists can study it, Burmese amber is mined in a conflict zone, smuggled into China and soldRead the story: https://scim.ag/2VK1qzBCreditseditor/producerMeagan Cantwellsupervising producerSarah Crespistory byJoshua Sokolstory editorElizabeth Cu
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Bringing Dinosaurs Back To Life - Christmas Lectures with Simon Conway Morris

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Simon Conway Morris shows what the world would have looked like when ancient animals like the Brachiosaurus were alive.Watch the full second lecture of the series: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1996/the-history-in-our-bones/the-fossils-com
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Life, death and discovery of a plesiosaur

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See the plesiosaur swimming beside other Jurassic marine animals. Out of the Deep animation created by Mighty Fossils.
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Finding A Dinosaur Graveyard And Unearthing Their Bones And Fossils | Today I Learned | MagellanTV

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In this clip from the MagellanTV documentary "Dinosaurs Alive," paleontologists discover a dinosaur graveyard, and show how they go about extracting and preserving fossils. https://magellan.tv/DinosaursAlivehttps://magellan.tv/infoHere at MagellanTV it is
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How Many Fossils to Go an Inch? (ft. Robert Krulwich)

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A beautiful guest video by Robert Krulwich and Nate MiltonSupport MinutePhysics on Patreon! http://www.patreon.com/minutephysicsLink to Patreon Supporters: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporters/MinutePhysics is on twitter - @minutephysicsAnd facebook -
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Why did dinosaurs go extinct? | SciShow Kids

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Hosted by: Jessi Knudsen Castaeda (she/her/they/them)JD Voyek: WriterKeren Turton: Fact CheckerStefan Chin: EditorJosef "Tuna" Metesh: Sound DesignerFaith Evelyn Schmidt: Associate ProducerDaniel Comiskey: Editorial DirectorSarah Suta: ProducerNicole Swee
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Why Most Fossils Are Incomplete

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In 1990, fossil collectors in South Dakota stumbled across a dinosaur that turned out to be a really big deal. Not just because it was a T. rex basically the most popular dino out there or because it ended up in Chicagos famous Field Museum but because of

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