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Simple Animals: Sponges, Jellies,&Octopuses - Crash Course Biology #22
837 views / 0 likes - addedHank 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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Q&A - Under The Sea - With Helen Scales
740 views / 0 likes - addedWhy haven't octopuses evolved shells? Helen Scales answers questions from the audience following her talk. Watch the main event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n796FoQjOHI Subscribe for regular science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe From shell-st
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Under The Sea - With Helen Scales
602 views / 0 likes - addedA dive into the spiralling world of seashells and the bizarre animals that make them. Helen Scales explains how hermit crabs like to party and butterflies learnt to swim. Watch the Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqBHjBDgLfY Subscribe for regular sci
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Snails, Slugs, and Slime!
687 views / 0 likes - addedJessi and Squeaks look at some amazing creatures that they found in their garden: snails and slugs! ---------- Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowkids ---------- Looking for SciShow el
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How the Squid Lost Its Shell
1,090 views / 2 likes - addedThe ancestors of modern, squishy cephalopods like the octopus and the squid all had shells. In ancient times, their shell was their greatest asset but it eventually proved to be their biggest weakness. Special thanks to Franz Anthony for the beautiful cep
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The nautilus will make you rethink intelligence
491 views / 0 likes - addedNautiluses have survived five mass extinctions thanks in large part to a big and complex brain that smells and feels better than it can see. That's why Dr. Jennifer Basil, an evolutionary biologist at Brooklyn College, has rethought how humans perceive in
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What is a fractal? A lens to infinity
1,242 views / 1 likes - addedA fractal pattern is a kind of equation occurring all around us in nature. So what's a fractal and what does it have to do with nautiluses, romanesco broccoli, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, peacocks, and predicting diseases? SUBSCRIBE! for more Popular
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The Evolution of the Heart (A Love Story)
392 views / 0 likes - addedYou can check out Google's Science Journal app at https://g.co/sciencejournal In order to understand where hearts came from, we have to go back to the earliest common ancestor of everything that has a heart. It took hundreds of millions of years, and coun
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How long can a snail sleep? | Natural History Museum
458 views / 0 likes - addedThe Museum is home to millions of specimens from all over the world. Jon Ablett, Senior Curator of Mollusca, tells the tale of one snail specimen that gave scientists in 1850 a bit of a shock.Website: http://www.nhm.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/NHM_L
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12 Animals That Can Do Unusual Things
234 views / 0 likes - addedSuperheroes are not only found in movies. Some incredible superpowers already exist in the world. We found creatures with abilities that are even more surprising, funny, and weird than any superhero. For example, each octopus has 3 hearts and 9 brains. Ev
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The ancient technology of silk - with Aarathi Prasad at Ada Lovelace Day
42 views / 0 likes - addedFrom the ancient uses of silk to the biologists who learned the secrets of silk-producing animals: manipulating the habitats, physiologies, and threads of moths, spiders and molluscs, this talk will explore the work of some of the women who have been key
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