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Can Planting Trees Help Fight Climate Change?

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Is planting trees a solution to global warming? Recent studies have looked into the possibility of planting billions of, or even a trillion, trees as a low-tech solution to climate change. But is planting that many trees feasible and worthwhile, consideri
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Can We Solve the Air Conditioning Paradox?

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Were on PATREON! Join the communityhttps://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below As the Earth warms due to human-caused climate change, billions of people in the developing world will face life-threatening heat waves, raising the de
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How to fight climate change with parking lots

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Why havent we covered them in solar panels?This episode is presented by Delta. Delta doesnt have a say in our editorial, but they make videos like this possible. For more information, visit http://www.delta.com/sustainability.Subscribe to our channel and
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The race to mine the bottom of the ocean

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We have a lot to gain and a lot to lose from deep-sea mining.Help keep Vox free for everybody: http://www.vox.com/give-now Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications () so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjOThere are metallic deposits
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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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The WEIRD Way Monkeys Got to America

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Many of the greatest biological dispersal events in history likely happened because animals inadvertently traveled across the oceans on floating debris.LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Ocea
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Sea Monsters Of The Past | SciShow Kids

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Teachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!Squeaks is so excited to learn all about ancient sea monsters, like the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs! We'll also take a look at a fish wearing armor
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Why do we have crooked teeth when our ancestors didnt? - G. Richard Scott

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Explore the prevailing scientific theory of why crooked teeth and impacted wisdom teeth are recent developments in human evolution.--According to the fossil record, ancient humans usually had straight teeth, complete with wisdom teeth. In fact, the dental
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Quetzalcoatlus: The Biggest Animal Who Ever Flew! | The Science of Flight | SciShow Kids

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Teachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!The birds you see around today might not be that big, but a long time ago, there was a flying animal the size of some airplanes!Third Grade Next G
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New Fossil May Reveal Clues to Dinosaurs' Final Days

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Watch scientists uncover what might be the first dinosaur fossil ever found from the day the dinosaurs died."Dinosaur Apocalypse," a two-hour NOVA special, premieres on WED MAY 11 at 9/8c on PBS. Watch it online here: https://to.pbs.org/3EtpE9g
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Riding the last Wooden Escalator in New York

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In the shadow of the majestic Empire State Building and located on the ninth floor of the Iconic Macy's department store in Manhatten (think "Miracle on 34th St.") you can still ride one of the world's last functioning wooden escalators. Built during the
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Is this the world's oldest animal fossil?

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A possible sponge fossil dating back 890 million years could be the oldest animal ever discovered. Not all researchers are convinced that the markings left in the rock were made by an animal but, if they were, the new find could give us an insight into th
A swimming dinosaur: The tail of Spinosaurus

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A new fossil of one of the most unusual dinosaurs, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, suggests it was a swimming predator powered by a fin-like tail. The find comes after decades of debate on how much of its life Spinosaurus would have spent in the water, and how r
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We WILL Fix Climate Change!

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Visit https://brilliant.org/nutshell/ to get started learning STEM for free, and the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription.Sources & further reading:https://sites.google.com/view/sources-can-we-fix-climate/Our home is burning
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The Real-Life Dinosaur Hunter! | Jurassic World Presents WHAT THE PAST?

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Jurassic World makes working with dinosaurs seem exciting, especially when theyre chasing you down the street! But theres a lesser- known fossil hunter out there who was just as adventurous... and a lot more real: her name was Mary Anning.Images used unde
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Why Meat Is Now 10X More Deadly, w Stephen Fry

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A threat eclipsing coronavirus. A message for Mr Johnson.Voiced by Stephen Fry90% are exposed to air pollution (WHO) and fossil fuel air pollution alone is linked to 18% of all deaths globally (Harvard). Please sign the petition to make polluters pay:http
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The World's biggest hidden killer, w Stephen Fry.

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Surprising climate change facts, with Stephen Fry.Help us make more videos like this (and enjoy exclusive content):patreon.com/pindexReceive our videos via email:https://www.pinfact.org/joinNeed a video?https://www.pindexvideoproduction.comSources and res
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The Fossil Record In Your Mouth

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The hardened residue scraped off your teeth at the dentist is called your dental calculus, and your dental calculus is the only part of your body that actually fossilizes while youre alive! And scientists have figured out how to study & trace the evolutio
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Dimetrodon, the Animal With a Sail! | The History of Life! | SciShow Kids

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Squeaks and Jessi use their pretend time machine to go way back in time and meet a creature even older than dinosaurs, called Dimetrodon! Hosted by: Jessi Knudsen Castaeda----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon:
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The Very Long Time of the Dinosaurs! | History of Life! | SciShow Kids

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Dino stops by the Fort to learn all about dinosaurs with Jessi and Squeaks! Did you know that dinosaurs were on Earth for so long that not all dinosaurs lived at the same time?!Hosted by: Jessi Knudsen Castaeda----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help
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Mysterious Trilobites! | The History of Life! | SciShow Kids

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Squeaks and Mister Brown pretend to go back in time to learn more about Trilobites, using special clues from fossils!Hosted by: Anthony Brown----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scish
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Don't Choose Extinction - UNDP | United Nations | Jack Black | Climate Action

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The world spends an astounding US$423 billion annually to subsidize fossil fuels for consumers – oil, electricity that is generated by the burning of other fossil fuels, gas, and coal. This is four times the amount being called for to help poor coun
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The Ichthyosaur That Refused to Die

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A very strange fossil discovery was made in Iraq in 1952 - an ichthyosaur that looked like it didn't belong in its time period at all: Malawania anachronus.Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/3KgpG8JSupport us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/b
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A New Mosasaur Species | 7 Days of Science

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Join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/3KgpG8JSupport us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bengthomasFollow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/1PIEagvCool Vibes - Film Noire by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (htt
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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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Skunk-like mammal, Orretherium tzen, co-existed with dinosaurs | CBC Kids News

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Paleontologists in Chile have found a fossil jawbone with teeth.The fossil comes from a skunk-like mammal that lived more than 70 million years ago.The discovery was published in the journal Scientific Reports in April 2021.Scientists say it could help an
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How Green Fuel Could Change Your Flights Forever

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Sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, could help the airline industry meet ambitious emissions reduction targets in the coming years. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at htt
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The Solar Car Revolution Could Change EVs Forever

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Engineers are one step closer to harnessing the Sun to power your next car, giving the auto industry renewed interest in solar. In other words, the solar powered car revolution is coming. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Focal
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The 500-Year-Old Shark | Greenland Sharks

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Greenland Sharks, Monsters of the Arctic Deep: Deep Sea Wonders The Greenland shark is perhaps the most peculiar species of shark, found in the icy Arctic waters often at depths of 2,000 metres, down in the midnight zone of the ocean. Living at such depth
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The Vampire Squid, a Living Fossil of the Abyss

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The vampire squid is a peculiar creature, with its deep red colour, icy blue eyes, and webbed tentacles. Vampire squid are remarkably well-suited for a life at these depths. The isolated environment around it has changed little in 300 million years, meani
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Earth was once a planet of the apesand they set the stage for human evolution

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More than ten million years ago, the world was brimming with a wide variety of apes. Scientists studying the ones that are still alive today can learn a lot about human evolutionbut they miss out on many clues that can only be found from the apes that wen
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Amazing Animal Facts - Facts About Animals - Things You Didn't Know - Crazy Animal Facts

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Amazing Animal Facts - Facts About Animals - Things You Didn't Know - Crazy Animal Facts**SUBSCRIBE****LIKE AND SHARE****POST SOME COMMENTS**In todays video, I will show you 10 Amazing facts you didnt know about animals. Most known animal phyla appeared i
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Could This Billion-Year-Old Fossil Be The Oldest Multicellular Animal on Record?

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A minuscule fossil found in Scotland could reveal an important chapter in the history of life on Earth.
Discovery of Ankylosaur at Suncor's Millennium Mine

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On March 21, 2011 a shovel operator in Suncor's Millennium Mine discovered an important piece of Alberta's history when he uncovered a dinosaur fossil. Watch the teamwork, ingenuity and commitment involved in safely and effectively removing the fossil fro
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Why Did the Mexican Jumping Bean Jump? | Deep Look

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To find its place in the shade! Each hollowed-out seed is home to a head-banging moth larva, just trying to survive the harsh Sonoran Desert sun.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqt Please join our community on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/dee
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GIANT Pencil Made From CORN!?

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Science Matters: www.4-H.org/Bayer Big shout out to Bayer 4H Council for partnering with us on this video! Note: The vast majority of corn is for feed or fuel, not food for people https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sweet-corn-vs-field-corn_n_596f6718e4b0a03ab
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How much land does it take to power the world?

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Explore the sustainability of fossil fuels, nuclear power, and renewable energy and how much space each of these power sources use.--No matter how we make electricity, it takes up space. Coal requires mines, and plants to convert it into electricity. Nucl
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How Avocado Waste Is Turned Into Plastic | World Wide Waste

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Last year, Americans consumed over 6 billion avocados - leaving behind mounds of inedible pits. Now a company in Mexico created a method to transform avocado waste into bioplastic - which breaks down fast and requires less fossil fuels to produce.MORE WOR
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Wave Power Could Be Energy's Next Big Leap

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Searching for ways to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, engineers and entrepreneurs are looking to a largely untapped potential source of renewable energy: wave power.#TheSpark #Green #BloombergQuicktake--------Like this video? Subscribe: http://www.yo
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How Do Trees Extract CO2?

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How exactly do trees extract CO2 from the atmosphere? And in general, how do they fight climate change?#TeamTrees We know that one way to combat climate change is by planting trees. But why? Let's explore the mechanism by which trees fight climate change!
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The Two Viruses That Weve Had For Millions of Years

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Theres 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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What Exactly Is Fracking, And Is It Really That Bad?

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Fracking, the controversial method of extracting natural gas from deep beneath the ground, is gaining popularity. But is it safe? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http
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Fossil Hunting Is Entering a New Technological Age

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Thanks to newly recovered fossils and breakthrough technologies, paleontologists can now reveal how life returned after the dinosaurs. This episode is made possible thanks to HHMI Tangled Bank Studios: https://to.pbs.org/3fhtghS Subscribe to Seeker! http:
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Green Hydrogen Is Sparking a Revolution in Sustainable Energy

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Hydrogen, an already viable substitute for fossil fuels, has been struggling to gain traction for years. But that could soon change, thanks to Europe's ambitious targets for scaling up green hydrogen production. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscrib
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The $5,000,000,000,000 Lie, w Stephen Fry.

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A powerful trick is forcing governments to keep quiet about a toxic threat that's killing more than Coronavirus. Voiced by Stephen Fry Watch the new hyperloop video: https://youtu.be/BxuOJfAOsnc Help us make more videos like this (and enjoy exclusive cont
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Jelle Atema playing Neanderthal flute replica made with 50-100,000 year old cave bear fossil at AMNH

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Jelle Atema is a Professor of Biology and Adjunct Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He is also an accomplished flautist with a particular interest in Neanderthal flute replicas. There is only one flute that has ever been identified as
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What if there were 1 trillion more trees? - Jean-Franois Bastin

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How can trees help in the fight against climate change? Dig into the efforts to rebuild damaged ecosystems and reduce carbon emissions.--Today humanity produces more than 1,400 tons of carbon every minute. To combat climate change, we need to reduce fossi
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The First and Last North American Primates

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How 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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How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs

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Take 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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Why Do Things Keep Evolving Into Crabs?

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Help 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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Could You Power Your Own Commute? | Living Off Grid with Maddie Moate | Earth Lab

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With fossil fuels running out, Maddie Moate looks at the renenwable energies (like solar power) that will one day allow us to move... without a carbon footprint! Best of Earth Lab: http://bit.ly/EarthLabOriginals Best of BBC Earth: http://bit.ly/TheBestOf
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How America can leave fossil fuels behind, in one chart

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And what the 2020 US election means for climate change.What do you think the presidential candidates should be talking about? http://vox.com/ElectionVideos All of recorded human history has happened during a period in which the average global temperature
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Moros intrepidus: North America's Tiny Tyrannosaur

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Diminutive, fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil recordPublished in Communications Biology21 Feb 2019DOI: 10.1038/s42003-019-0308-7Authors: Lindsay Zanno, Terry Gates, Aurore Canoville, Haviv Avrahami, N
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Insect Flight | Capturing Takeoff & Flying at 3,200 FPS

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Takeoff and flight sequences of insects spanning 8 different taxonomic orders captured at 3,200 fps!00:00 - intro01:17 - plume moth01:20 - firefly02:32 - painted lichen moth03:14 - leafroller moth03:31 - rosy maple moth04:00 - stonefly (see comment for co
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The Best Worst Energy Source

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This video was made in partnership with Bill Gates. To learn more about his work on clean energy, visit https://gatesnot.es/2X0NxzvAlthough coal is such an amazing energy source that we've kept using it despite the harm it causes, today we may be better p
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Meet the Wonderchicken that Survived the Dinosaur Extinction

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Hidden inside an unassuming piece of limestone are the remnants of a creature that reveals an extraordinary link between the age of dinosaurs and the present day. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/Elemen
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Can We Make Fuel Out Of Sunlight? - Christmas Lectures with George Porter

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George Porter shows how we can make a type of fuel by shining light on a substance.Watch the full sixth lecture of the series: https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1976/the-natural-history-of-a-sunbeam/survival-under-the-sun?utm_source=youtube&ut
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A Baby Dragonfly's Mouth Will Give You Nightmares | Deep Look

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Dragonflies might rule the skies, but their babies grow up underwater in a larva-eat-larva world. Luckily for them, they have a killer lip that snatches prey, Alien-style, at lightning speed.SUBSCRIBE to Deep Look! http://goo.gl/8NwXqtDEEP LOOK: a new ult
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How Did Giant Pterosaurs Fly?

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Follow me to @thebrainscoop! https://youtu.be/GB1IXOeOzpIWere on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart More info and sources below The largest pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus were closer in size to airplanes than birds. No fl
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What Is A Dinosaur And What Isn't?

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Were on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmartSUBSCRIBE so you dont miss a video! http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub More info and sources below Theres a lot of confusion out there about what is and isnt a dinosaur. And youd be forgiven
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A Fossil Excavation Goes Wrong in the Worst Possible Way

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An excavation of a rare dinosaur fossil goes horribly wrong. It’s left to paleo technicians to try and salvage what they can. From the Show: Dinosaur Cold Case
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Becoming A Pterodactyl - Christmas Lectures with Simon Conway Morris

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Simon Conway Morris demonstrates how awesomely huge pterodactyls were, with a little help from some members of the audience. Watch the full fourth lecture of the series:https://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/1996/the-history-in-our-bones/innovation
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The Giant Dinosaur That Was Missing a Body

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From 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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How South America Made the Marsupials

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Throughout 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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New Evidence Could Rewrite the History of Human Bipedalism

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You might want to take a seat for this one: Humans walked on two feet way earlier than we previously thought. Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.comWh
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Artificial Leaf Technology Could One Day Power Our World

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This artificial leaf creates methanol, absorbs CO2 from the air and is 10 times more efficient than plant photosynthesis. Can you be-leaf it?! Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist Visit our
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2019 Breakthrough of the Year

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Learn about our Breakthrough of the Year: the first image of the a black hole. Nine other advances are recognized as runners-up.Read more: https://vis.sciencemag.org/breakthrough2019/Editor's Note: The original posting of this video identified the geograp
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Everything We Know About Dinosaur Evolution Just Changed, Here's Why

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While it's been known that dinosaurs had feathers, the question of when feathers evolved is longstanding in the paleontological community. Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylistIn 2019, scient
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The UK Is Racing to Build the Worlds First Commercial Fusion Power Plant

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What could the UKs recent investment announcement mean for the future of sustainable energy? Subscribe to Seeker!http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylistThere are many directions we could go when it comes to the fu
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When Bats Took Flight

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Bats 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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New Fossil Discovery Offers Glimpse into the Day the Dinosaurs Died | NOVA | PBS

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A mass of fossilized fish, uncovered in North Dakota, appear to preserve the catastrophic fallout of the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Read more: https://to.pbs.org/2IIrXKM PRODUCTION CREDITSDigital Producer: Emily ZendtMEDIA CREDITSAdditi
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The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning

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Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/The technology we use to keep cool is heating the world in a vicious feedback cycle, so we need to improve it and use it less.Thanks also to our Patreon patrons ht
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How To Switch Your City To 100% Renewable Energy | One Small Step | NowThis

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More than 90 cities across the United States have committed to run on 100% renewable energy, but how does a city go 100% renewable? Find out on this episode of One Small Step. Subscribe to NowThis Future: https://go.nowth.is/Future_Subscribe Sign up for o
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Could we live without any fossil fuels at all? | BBC Ideas

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Former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres outlines her vision of a world that's entirely free of fossil fuels.Subscribe to BBC Ideas https://bbc.in/2F6ipavThis video was made by Somethin' Else.---------------------------Do you have a curious mind? Youre
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Mini-Nuclear Reactors Are Coming, and They Could Reinvent the Energy Industry

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Nuclear power may be making a comeback as researchers develop reactors that are smaller than ever before. Watch more Focal Point! | https://bit.ly/2J9b9LC Read More:NUCLEAR 101: How Does a Nuclear Reactor Work?https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-10
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Bill Gates-Backed Carbon Capture Plant Does The Work Of 40 Million Trees

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In Squamish, British Columbia, there’s a company that wants to stop climate change by sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. It’s called Carbon Engineering, and it uses a combination of giant fans and complex chemical processes to remov
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The Ghostly Origins of the Big Cats

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Learn 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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Skywalker Hand, Planet Discovery and more -- Mind Blow #115

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Watch my newest video, "The Game You Win By Losing (Parrondo's Paradox)": https://youtu.be/PpvboBJEozMGet a free audiobook with a 30-day trial today by signing up. Go to http://www.audible.com/vsauce2 or text Vsauce2 to 500-500 to get started.This video s
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When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas

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Try 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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We’re Closer to Unravelling the Mysterious Evolution of the T. Rex

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In its prime, the Tyrannosaurs rex was the apex predator of the world over 65 million years ago, but how did it get so big, so fast? Here are the latest discoveries we have about this colossal beast. How Did Roboticists Get This Ancient Fossil To Walk? -
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How Close Are We to Zero-Emissions Electricity?

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We know that tackling climate change will take quick and drastic action. Could modernizing our power grid be the key? How Close Are We? Season 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypm4QcOOqXQ&list=PL6uC-XGZC7X56r8MGLS5rqsr5glQnMdAC Read More: The world has
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The true story of Mary Anning: The girl who helped discover dinosaurs | BBC Ideas

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The 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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The Problem With Concrete

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This video is in partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates. You can check out the Gates Annual Letter here: https://b-gat.es/2GxIwba Concrete is responsible for 8% of humanity’s carbon emissions because making its key ingredient - cement - chemically releas
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How Did Roboticists Get This Ancient Fossil To Walk?

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Advanced 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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The Island of Shrinking Mammoths

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You 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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The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)

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You 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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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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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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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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Why are Fossil Shark Skeletons So Rare?

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Happy 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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Bringing a fossil to life: Reverse engineering locomotion

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You 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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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 Blood Evolved (Many Times)

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Blood 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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How humans disrupted a cycle essential to all life

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How one animal dug up carbon and put it back into the atmosphere at an astounding pace. Become a member of the Vox Video Lab! https://www.vox.com/join. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Carbon cycles through earth at a steady pace. Plants and
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Discovering the Past Through Dinosaur Poop

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Please 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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What Colors Were Dinosaurs?

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We 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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What sounds did dinosaurs make? ft. Joe Hanson

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Despite 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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What If We Burned All The World's Fossil Fuels? | Hot Mess

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Please SUBSCRIBE! ►► http://bit.ly/hotmess_sub And support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hotmesspbs We have enough fossil fuels to make Earth intolerably hot & wet, so we’ll have to choose to not burn them all. Connect with us on: Twitter: https:
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Soft Tissue Found Inside a Dinosaur Bone!

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In 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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Did Dinosaurs Ever Live Alongside Humans?

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You 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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Can Science Explain the Origin of Life?

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Support 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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Top 10 Dinosaurs More Lethal Than T-Rex

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When 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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Did Raptorex Really Exist?

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Try 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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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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Fossil Hunting in the BADLANDS!

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The MOST FAMOUS DINOSAUR Tooth!

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PROOF...Dinosaurs had FEATHERS!

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The Rise and Fall of the Bone-Crushing Dogs

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You 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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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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The Mystery of the Eocene’s Lethal Lake

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Check 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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How Horses Took Over North America (Twice)

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The 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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Space Volcanoes - Shelf Life 360

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Here on Earth, volcanic eruptions are dramatic manifestations of our dynamic planet. Elsewhere in our solar system, awe-inspiring extraterrestrial volcanoes—both active and extinct—provide clues to planetary formation and hints of how life may
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How Elephants Listen ... With Their Feet | Deep Look

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Love Deep Look? You can support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook African elephants may have magnificent ears, but on the savanna, they communicate over vast distances by picking up underground signals with their sensitive, fatty feet. SUBSC
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When Insects First Flew

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Insects 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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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a DINOSAUR!

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Dino's back to share more dinosaur facts with you, and this time he has some incredible news: birds are the descendants of dinosaurs! Join him to learn the whole story! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon:
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How the Chalicothere Split In Two

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Two extinct relatives of horses and rhinos are closely related to each other but have strikingly different body plans. How did two of the same kind of animal, living in the same place, end up look
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Where Did Viruses Come From?

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons There are fossils of viruses, of sorts, preserved in the DNA of the hosts that they’ve infected. Including you. This molecular fossil trail can help us understand where viruses came from, how they
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DINOSAUR FOSSIL CAKE ft MatPat! - NERDY NUMMIES

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Made a delicious chocolate cake with my friend MatPat! SUBSCRIBE ► https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=rosannapansino *Order The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook here: http://rosannapansino.com/the-nerdy-nummies-cookbook/ WATCH MY PREVIOUS VIDEO ►
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From the Fall of Dinos to the Rise of Humans

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Check out our other journeys through geologic time here : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi6K9w_UbfFSFIpEU9VMavTM5MIbOAiW5 After taking you on a journey through geologic time, we've arrived at the Cenozoic Era. Most of the mammals and birds that y
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The Weird, Watery Tale of Spinosaurus

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Check out our NEW POSTER: https://store.dftba.com/products/eons-poster In 1912, a fossil collector discovered some strange bone fragments in the eerie, beautiful Cretaceous Bahariya rock formation of Egypt. Eventually, that handful of fossil fragments wou
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How Big Can Animals Get?

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History's Most Powerful Plants

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Fossil fuels are made from the remains of extinct organisms that have been exposed to millions of years of heat and pressure. But in the case of coal, these organisms consisted largely of some downright bizarre plants that once covered the Earth, from Col
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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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How the Turtle Got Its Shell

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Where 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
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Can Airplanes Be Fueled by Waste?

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WHAT IF we could make planes fly in the sky with the waste WE generate? This is what I'm trying to figure out as a futurologist on #PreOrderTheFuture. Together we can build a better future less dependent on fossil fuels. Learn More at http://www.neste.com
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The Last Time the Globe Warmed

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Try CuriosityStream today: http://curiositystream.com/eons Imagine an enormous, lush rainforest teeming with life...in the Arctic. Well there was a time -- and not too long ago -- when the world warmed more than any human has ever seen. (So far) Produced
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The Facts About Dinosaurs & Feathers

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Over the past 20 years, dinosaurs of all types and sizes have been found with some sort of fluff or even full-on plumage. These fuzzy discoveries have raised a whole batch of new questions so we're here to tell you everything we know about dinosaurs and f
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An Illustrated History of Dinosaurs

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Our image of dinosaurs has been constantly changing since naturalists started studying them about 350 years ago. Taken together, these pictures can tell us a whole lot about just how much we have learned. Let's explore the history of dinosaur science as s
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What Happened to the World's Greatest Ape?

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Probably twice the size of a modern gorilla, Gigantopithecus is the greatest great-ape that ever was. And for us fellow primates, there are some lessons to be learned in how it lived, and why it disappeared. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Stud
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When Giant Fungi Ruled

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420 million years ago, a giant feasted on the dead, growing slowly into the largest living thing on land. It belonged to an unlikely group of pioneers that ultimately made life on land possible -- the fungi. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Stud
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How Two Microbes Changed History

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What if I told you that, more than two billion years ago, some tiny living thing started to live inside another living thing … and never left? And now, the descendants of both of those things are in you? Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios:
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Untangling the Devil's Corkscrew

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In the late 1800s, paleontologists in Nebraska found huge coils of hardened sand stuck deep in the earth. Local ranchers called them Devil's Corkscrews and scientists called them Daemonelix. It was clear these corkscrews were created by some form of life,
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The Great Snake Debate

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90 million years ago, an ancient snake known as Najash had...legs. It is by no means the only snake to have limbs either. But what’s even stranger: we’re not at all sure where it came from. Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: http://youtub
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Tuatara All The Way Down – Face To Face With A Living Fossil!

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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 Trick to Not Freezing During Hibernation

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You may wish that you could pack on a few pounds and sleep the next few months away, and scientists are one step closer to understanding how some animals are capable of doing this. If you want to learn more about ancient animals or paleontological science
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Can 100% renewable energy power the world? - Federico Rosei and Renzo Rosei

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-100-renewable-energy-power-the-world-federico-rosei-and-renzo-rosei Every year, the world uses 35 billion barrels of oil. This massive scale of foss
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HOW TO MAKE DINOSAUR FOSSIL COOKIES - NERDY NUMMIES

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Today I made Dinosaur Fossil Footprint Cookies! Let me know down below what other videos you'd like to see. *Order my Baking Line Here: http://www.rosannapansino.com/bakingline *Order The Nerdy Nummies Cookbook here: http://www.RosannaPansino.com/the-nerd
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Here's How Much Gas Really Costs (If You Account for Global Warming)

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The true cost of fossil fuels is hidden in subsidies, but a new study has estimated just how much they really are. And let's just say, fossil fuels are expensive. Which Power Source Is Most Efficient? - https://youtu.be/0c4xk5dB014 Sign Up For The Seeker
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Well-Preserved Armored Fossil Reveals Cretaceous Camouflage

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The Cretaceous Period was a dangerous time for many animals, even for the “dinosaur equivalent of a tank.” Watch how researchers analyzed the pristine remains of a heavily armored nodosaur to discover this dino’s additional layer of defense. Subscribe to
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TIL: Dinosaurs May Have Danced Like Birds | Today I Learned

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Take a look out your window and you're bound to see a dinosaur or two—or at least the descendant of one. That little blue jay? Dinosaur. The obnoxious early rising crow? Dinosaur. The squirrel running up the tree? Well, that’s still a squirrel. But those
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This Famous Tongue Twister Is Actually About Dinosaurs

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"She sells seashells by the seashore" isn't the whole story. This Boring Taxonomical Change Is Making Dinosaur Nerds Go Crazy - https://youtu.be/GM7SOweWAHE Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Who Discovered the First
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Fossil Myths: Cyclopes, Griffins, & Magic Fairy Bread

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Before modern science, what evidence did people use to help explain the inexplicable? For some things -- the fossil record! Today we’re looking for griffins, cyclopes, magical bread and enchanted stone snakes in our museum collection. Our citations and re
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What Color Were Dinosaurs... Really?

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For $30 off your first week of HelloFresh, go to http://bit.ly/2pZ7yYd. Paleontologists can figure out a lot about what dinosaurs looked like based on their fossils, but color? Not so much. What Color Were Dinosaurs? - https://youtu.be/JxF5GAobHjo Sign Up
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Newly Unveiled Dinosaur Fossil is Best Preserved Of Its Kind | National Geographic

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See the remains of a nodosaur, the best preserved fossil of its kind ever found. Discovered by miners in Alberta, Canada, it's a 110 million-year-old type of plant-eating armored dinosaur. The animal has two 20-inch-long spikes on its shoulders, and, in l
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Where Did We Come From?

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Ready to untangle the branches of the human family tree? Part 1 of our special series on Human Ancestry. Watch it all: http://bit.ly/OKTBSHuman ↓↓↓More info and sources below ↓↓↓ In part 1 of our special series on human ancestry, we tour through our famil
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The Ocean Holds Enough Uranium To Power The Planet For 10,000 Years

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Stanford University researchers have found a new way to extract particles of Uranium from seawater. Could this bring us closer to sustainable nuclear power? The Internet Is Overreacting About Fukushima's Radiation, Here's Why - https://youtu.be/_jVm0N2dnh
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Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter

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Everybody loves dinosaurs, and we wouldn't know nearly as much as we do if it weren't for a person named Mary Anning. ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowkids ---------- Look
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Could This New Method Store Summer Heat For Winter?

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The sun provides us with a ton of energy and researchers may have finally figured out how to store it using big drills, simple chemical reactions, and salt. If Green Energy Is So Great, Why Aren't We Using It? - https://youtu.be/io6LZiEgZ5U Sign Up For Th
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Life May Have Existed A Billion Years Earlier Than We Thought!

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Fossil records stretch back over a billion years, but new research says that complex life may have inhabited Earth even earlier. This Discovery Shows Life Might Have Come From Space - https://youtu.be/TLInopSVn-g Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - h
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If Green Energy Is So Great, Why Aren't We Using It?

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Green energy is getting better and cheaper, yet we still largely rely on fossil fuels. Why haven't we switched to solar and wind energy yet? Which Countries Will Be Underwater Due To Climate Change? - https://youtu.be/1ilC2ODaWSY Which Countries Run On 10
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T. rex Arms & BEARDOGS! | Natural News from The Field Museum | Ep. 6

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We’ve got three big stories talking about tiny things! Tiny arms, tiny plants, tiny beardog fossils. Big science. Want more natural history research? Check out the other episodes of NN! http://bit.ly/2fFSzOg ↓ More info + Links! ↓ ------------------------
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The Incredible Reptiles That Flew 200 Million Years Ago

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A 200-million-year-old fossil reveals the amazing body structure of a reptilian creature known as the dimorphodon. Not only did it possess wings, it was one of the first large vertebrates to travel by air. From: DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S CONQUEST OF THE SKIES:
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We Can Power The World With Algae!

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Scientists are always looking for alternatives to fossil fuels, but what about algae? Can algae be used to create biofuel? How Algae Could Change The Fossil Fuel Industry - https://youtu.be/yCNkmi7VE0I Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.l
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Everyone poops. But who wants to actually deal with it? Ecologist Sasha Kramer literally works with poop and thinks about it every day. She is helping to transform human waste into fertile organic compost for agricultural use in Haiti. Kramer is an ecolog
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Over the last several hundred million years, there have been many mass extinctions. Who caused the first & should we worry about the next? What's The Best Way To Stop Mass Extinction? - http://bit.ly/2bkskfY Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http:/
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Neanderthals Were Smarter Than We Thought!

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Your ancestral history might be a lot more interesting than you think. Here's what makes us human... and part Neanderthal. Could Neanderthals Talk Like Us? - http://bit.ly/28Lf8uP Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: N
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What Did Sharks Look Like 450 Million Years Ago?

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Sharks have survived through 5 mass extinctions! Find out how they've evolved throughout millions of years. How Can We Stop Sharks From Going Extinct? - http://bit.ly/25BYSU6 Sign Up For The Seeker Newsletter Here - http://bit.ly/1UO1PxI Read More: Spiral
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Tully Monster Mystery SOLVED!

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How is it that a Museum can have 1,200+ fossils of a particular species in its collection since the 1960's... and not even know what it is? For decades, it was thought the 'Tully monster' -- a bizarre animal that lived 307 million years ago -- was an inve
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Why Aren't Modern Animals As Large As Dinosaurs?

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Since the prehistoric age, we haven't seen any animals as big as dinosaurs. So just how did dinosaurs get so big? Watch new episodes of River Monsters, every Thursday at 9/8c on Animal Planet! How Did Dinosaurs Evolve Into Birds? ►►►► http://dne.ws/1zUP5b
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Why Do We Have Fingernails And Not Claws? #AskDNews

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Nails evolved from claws roughly 50 million years ago. Why did this happen and what purpose do nails serve? Why Do Fingernails Grow Faster Than Toenails? ►►►►http://bit.ly/1MQiFVb Sign Up For The TestTube Newsletter Here ►►►► http://bit.ly/1myXbFG Read Mo
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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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Proof Of Evolution That You Can Find On Your Body

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You have your mom's smile, your dad's eyes, and the ear muscles of a Triassic mammal. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Forty-two percent of Americans say that humans were created in their present form within the past 10,000 years — a percent
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How Snakes Jump And Move Without Legs

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How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been?

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Giant Prehistoric Crocodile Discovered In Tunisia

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National Geographic grantee Federico Fanti and his research team discovered a giant Cretaceous crocodile skeleton in southern Tunisia. The fossil dates back 130 million years ago. The head of the crocodile alone is over 5 feet long. The discovery proves t
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How Do We Know What Color Dinosaurs Were? - Len Bloch

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-do-we-know-what-color-dinosaurs-were-len-bloch The microraptor was a four-winged carnivorous dinosaur with iridescent black feathers. But if our information about this dinosaur comes from fossils, how can we
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The Origin Of Mammal Movement: Harvard Adventures, Part I

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Paleontologists today look at more than just fossil evidence to learn about organisms that lived millions of years ago. In this case, we're seeking to answer the question: how, and when, did mammals evolve their specialized movements? Turns out, the next
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Did The Brontosaurus Exist?

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The Brontosaurus technically hasn't existed in the living/breathing sense of the word for 150 million years. But did it ever exist? Was this iconic dinosaur the result of misclassification? Learn about the Bone Wars with Stuff You Missed In History Class:
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Shape-shifting Dinosaurs - Jack Horner

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Where are the baby dinosaurs? In a spellbinding talk paleontologist Jack Horner describes how slicing open fossil skulls revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs. (Filmed at TEDxVancouver.) Talk by Jack Horner.
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Did Dinosaurs Really Have Feathers?

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At least one entire class of dinosaurs seems to have had feathers -- including velociraptors, and probably T. rex. Find out how we know, and how we even know what color some of them were! Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the followi
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Humanity's New Cousin & An Ancient Giant Virus

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SciShow News shares two amazing things from the deep past that have been discovered: a new ancient human relative, and a 30,000-year-old giant virus. Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn't m
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How To Fossilize...yourself - Phoebe A. Cohen

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-fossilize-yourself-phoebe-a-cohen You can aspire to great things in life, but how about in death? Could you be one of the world's greatest fossils many years from now? To ensure being found by a future pa
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The Hydrologic And Carbon Cycles: Always Recycle! - Crash Course Ecology #8

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Hank introduces us to biogeochemical cycles by describing his two favorites: carbon and water. The hydrologic cycle describes how water moves on, above, and below the surface of the Earth, driven by energy supplied by the sun and wind. The carbon cycle do
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The History Of Life On Earth - Crash Course Ecology #1

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With a solid understanding of biology on the small scale under our belts, it's time for the long view - for the next twelve weeks, we'll be learning how the living things that we've studied interact with and influence each other and their environments. Li
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The First Brachiosaurus

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Joyce Havstad, PhD holds the title Philosopher-in-Residence at The Field Museum.* We had the joy of interviewing her about some of the fascinating concepts she researches and explores -- in this case, what is a holotype? And how can paleontologists determ
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Social Behaviour In Dinosaurs - With David Hone

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How do you learn about the social behaviour of animals that have been extinct for millions of years? Palaeontologist David Hone discusses what the fossil record can – and can’t – tell us about how the dinosaurs lived. Subscribe for regular science videos:
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Climate Change: Earth's Giant Game Of Tetris - Joss Fong

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/climate-change-earth-s-giant-game-of-tetris-joss-fong There's a game of Tetris happening on a global scale: The playing space is planet Earth, and all those pesky, stacking blocks represent carbon dioxide -- a g
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How To Kick Our Fossil Fuel Habit In One Step

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Solar energy is clean, renewable and abundant—so why do we still burn fossil fuels to generate the majority of our electricity? En Español: http://youtu.be/MamiwkyoS3w ↓Want more info?↓ After you watch, head over to NOVA Next to learn more about the curre
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A New Dinosaur: Flying Without Feathers

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Birds evolved from dinosaurs – but it wasn’t a smooth transition. Plenty of creatures tried different ways to get into the air – like this newly discovered dinosaur species, Yi qi, unearthed in China. This pigeon-sized creature had elongated fingers that
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SciShow Quiz Show: Weird Facts About Humans

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Hank squares off against the host of SciShow Kids, Jessi Knudsen Castaneda, to match wits about chemistry, evolution, and how babies are weird! https://www.youtube.com/user/scishowkids ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters --
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Sesame Street: F Is For Fox

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D is for Dog, E is for Egg. And what's a good word that starts with the letter F? Feathers? Fancy? Fast? Fossil? Yes! Those are all words that start with the letter F. Want one more? Ok, F is for Fox! Subscribe to the Sesame Street Channel here: http://ww
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JURASSIC PARK AMBER FOSSIL LOLLIPOPS - NERDY NUMMIES

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In celebration of the new Jurassic World movie coming out I made these Amber Fossil Lolipops! 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 treat you would like
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Will We Ever Run Out Of Oil?

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Check out our whole series on ENERGY! http://bit.ly/1BnH5zu Subscribe: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Twitter: @okaytobesmart ↓ More info and sources below ↓ We’ve heard news of “peak oil” and “the end of the oil age” for years now, but we keep coming up with wa
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The Coelacanth: A Living Fossil Of A Fish - Erin Eastwood

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-coelacanth-a-living-fossil-of-a-fish-erin-eastwood The coelacanth, a prehistoric fish that was mistakenly thought to have gone extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs, has managed to stick around our seas
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Fossil Meteorites

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In which we set out and find fossil meteorites in time and space. Wait... meteorites can be fossilized?! Mind blown. Read more about Philipp Heck's meteoritical research and the arrival of fossil meteorites at The Field Museum! http://www.fieldmuseum.org/
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The Lives of Nonvascular Plants: Alternation of Generations - Crash Course Biology #36

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Hank introduces us to nonvascular plants - liverworts, hornworts&mosses - which have bizarre features, kooky habits, and strange sex lives. Nonvascular plants inherited their reproductive cycle from algae, but have perfected it to the point where it i
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Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies,&Octopuses - Crash Course Biology #22

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Hank introduces us to the "simplest" of the animals, complexity-wise: beginning with sponges (whose very inclusion in the list as "animals" has been called into question because they are so simple) and finishing with the most complex molluscs, octopuses a
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Comparative Anatomy: What Makes Us Animals - Crash Course Biology #21

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Hank introduces us to comparative anatomy, which studies the similarities and differences in animal anatomy to support the theory of evolution and the shared ancestry of living things. Crash Course Biology is now available on DVD! http://dft.ba/-8css Like
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Evolution: It's a Thing - Crash Course Biology #20

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Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization. Crash Course Biology is now availabl
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The Global Carbon Cycle - Crash Course Chemistry #46

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Humans and Energy: Crash Course World History 207

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In which Stan Muller subs for John Green and teaches you about energy and humanity. Today we discuss the ideas put forth by Alfred Crosby in his book, Children of the Sun. Historically, almost all of the energy that humans use has been directly or indirec

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