Awesome Nature
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Curated by: TED-Ed (158 videos)
Tracks in this Playlist
- How turtle shells evolved... twice - Judy Cebra Thomas
- Why are fish fish-shaped? - Lauren Sallan
- The surprising reasons animals play dead - Tierney Thys
- Why isn't the world covered in poop? - Eleanor Slade and Paul Manning
- Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan
- The evolution of animal genitalia - Menno Schilthuizen
- Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth - Thomas Boothby
- Why do we harvest horseshoe crab blood? - Elizabeth Cox
- The surprising reason birds sing - Partha P. Mitra
- The life cycle of the butterfly - Franziska Bauer
- Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt
- A simple way to tell insects apart - Anika Hazra
- Why do animals form swarms? - Maria R. D'Orsogna
- The amazing ways plants defend themselves - Valentin Hammoudi
- The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara - Nizar Ibrahim
- The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky
- Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes
- How do animals experience pain? - Robyn J. Crook
- What’s so great about the Great Lakes? - Cheri Dobbs and Jennifer Gabrys
- Why do we kiss under mistletoe? - Carlos Reif
- Do we really need pesticides? - Fernan Pérez-Gálvez
- Why are there so many types of apples? - Theresa Doud
- How smart are orangutans? - Lu Gao
- How do animals see in the dark? - Anna Stöckl
- What is the biggest single-celled organism? - Murry Gans
- How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth - Anusuya Willis
- How North America got its shape - Peter J. Haproff
- The threat of invasive species - Jennifer Klos
- Can plants talk to each other? - Richard Karban
- Why do cats act so weird? - Tony Buffington
- Why is Mount Everest so tall? - Michele Koppes
- How do schools of fish swim in harmony? - Nathan S. Jacobs
- Why are there so many insects? - Murry Gans
- Why certain naturally occurring wildfires are necessary - Jim Schulz
- The most lightning-struck place on Earth - Graeme Anderson
- When will the next mass extinction occur? - Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard
- How do we know what color dinosaurs were? - Len Bloch
- The science of snowflakes - Maruša Bradač
- Do animals have language? - Michele Bishop
- How smart are dolphins? - Lori Marino
- What happens when continents collide? - Juan D. Carrillo
- How does a jellyfish sting? - Neosha S Kashef
- How plants tell time - Dasha Savage
- Why is biodiversity so important? - Kim Preshoff
- The science of static electricity - Anuradha Bhagwat
- How do geckos defy gravity? - Eleanor Nelsen
- Where did Earth’s water come from? - Zachary Metz
- How brain parasites change their host's behavior - Jaap de Roode
- How we think complex cells evolved - Adam Jacobson
- How do dogs "see" with their noses? - Alexandra Horowitz
- The truth about bats - Amy Wray
- The hidden worlds within natural history museums - Joshua Drew
- Why elephants never forget - Alex Gendler
- Where do genes come from? - Carl Zimmer
- Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms - Anje-Margriet Neutel
- How do tornadoes form? - James Spann
- What's hidden among the tallest trees on Earth? - Wendell Oshiro
- The coelacanth: A living fossil of a fish - Erin Eastwood
- Inside the ant colony - Deborah M. Gordon
- A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman
- How to speak monkey: The language of cotton-top tamarins - Anne Savage
- Attack of the killer algae - Eric Noel Muñoz
- How bees help plants have sex - Fernanda S. Valdovinos
- The colossal consequences of supervolcanoes - Alex Gendler
- The science of symmetry - Colm Kelleher
- How tsunamis work - Alex Gendler
- Nature's smallest factory: The Calvin cycle - Cathy Symington
- From the top of the food chain down: Rewilding our world - George Monbiot
- Poison vs. venom: What's the difference? - Rose Eveleth
- The Pangaea Pop-up - Michael Molina
- How to fossilize...yourself - Phoebe A. Cohen
- The popularity, plight, and poop of penguins - Dyan deNapoli
- The loathsome, lethal mosquito - Rose Eveleth
- Bird migration, a perilous journey - Alyssa Klavans
- Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet - Rose Eveleth
- The Arctic vs. the Antarctic - Camille Seaman
- What's below the tip of the iceberg? - Camille Seaman
- Got seeds? Just add bleach, acid, and sandpaper - Mary Koga
- Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler
- Vermicomposting: How worms can reduce our waste - Matthew Ross
- The game-changing amniotic egg - April Tucker
- Tracking grizzly bears from space - David Laskin
- Reasons for the seasons - Rebecca Kaplan
- Why do fingers become pruney? - Mark Changizi
- The brilliance of bioluminescence - Leslie Kenna
- How did feathers evolve? - Carl Zimmer
- Making sense of how life fits together - Bobbi Seleski
- How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics - Hortensia Jiménez Díaz
- The simple story of photosynthesis and food - Amanda Ooten
- Where we get our fresh water - Christiana Z. Peppard
- Curiosity, discovery and gecko feet - Robert Full
- How life came to land - Tierney Thys
- Five fingers of evolution - Paul Andersen
- The Cockroach Beatbox
- Evolution in a Big City
- Symbiosis: A surprising tale of species cooperation - David Gonzales
- Sex Determination: More Complicated Than You Thought
- How a fly flies - Michael Dickinson
- The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce
- Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain - John C. Moore