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Awesome Nature

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How turtle shells evolved... twice - Judy Cebra Thomas
4:46
Why are fish fish-shaped? - Lauren Sallan
4:57
The surprising reasons animals play dead - Tierney Thys
4:47
Why isn't the world covered in poop? - Eleanor Slade and Paul Manning
4:58
Why are sloths so slow? - Kenny Coogan
5:15
The evolution of animal genitalia - Menno Schilthuizen
5:36
Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth - Thomas Boothby
4:10
Why do we harvest horseshoe crab blood? - Elizabeth Cox
4:46
The surprising reason birds sing - Partha P. Mitra
5:39
The life cycle of the butterfly - Franziska Bauer
5:03
Cannibalism in the animal kingdom - Bill Schutt
4:58
A simple way to tell insects apart - Anika Hazra
4:07
Why do animals form swarms? - Maria R. D'Orsogna
4:06
The amazing ways plants defend themselves - Valentin Hammoudi
6:12
The ferocious predatory dinosaurs of Cretaceous Sahara - Nizar Ibrahim
4:20
The three different ways mammals give birth - Kate Slabosky
4:50
Why do animals have such different lifespans? - Joao Pedro de Magalhaes
4:57
How do animals experience pain? - Robyn J. Crook
5:07
What’s so great about the Great Lakes? - Cheri Dobbs and Jennifer Gabrys
4:47
Why do we kiss under mistletoe? - Carlos Reif
4:42
Do we really need pesticides? - Fernan Pérez-Gálvez
5:18
Why are there so many types of apples? - Theresa Doud
4:28
How smart are orangutans? - Lu Gao
4:33
How do animals see in the dark? - Anna Stöckl
4:23
What is the biggest single-celled organism? - Murry Gans
4:07
How a single-celled organism almost wiped out life on Earth - Anusuya Willis
4:14
How North America got its shape - Peter J. Haproff
4:58
The threat of invasive species - Jennifer Klos
4:46
Can plants talk to each other? - Richard Karban
4:39
Why do cats act so weird? - Tony Buffington
4:58
Why is Mount Everest so tall? - Michele Koppes
4:53
How do schools of fish swim in harmony? - Nathan S. Jacobs
6:07
Why are there so many insects? - Murry Gans
4:44
Why certain naturally occurring wildfires are necessary - Jim Schulz
4:21
The most lightning-struck place on Earth - Graeme Anderson
3:41
When will the next mass extinction occur? - Borths, D'Emic, and Pritchard
5:01
How do we know what color dinosaurs were? - Len Bloch
4:24
The science of snowflakes - Maruša Bradač
4:30
Do animals have language? - Michele Bishop
4:55
How smart are dolphins? - Lori Marino
4:51
What happens when continents collide? - Juan D. Carrillo
4:58
How does a jellyfish sting? - Neosha S Kashef
4:17
How plants tell time - Dasha Savage
4:20
Why is biodiversity so important? - Kim Preshoff
4:19
The science of static electricity - Anuradha Bhagwat
3:39
How do geckos defy gravity? - Eleanor Nelsen
4:30
Where did Earth’s water come from? - Zachary Metz
3:53
How brain parasites change their host's behavior - Jaap de Roode
5:14
How we think complex cells evolved - Adam Jacobson
5:42
How do dogs "see" with their noses? - Alexandra Horowitz
4:28
The truth about bats - Amy Wray
5:48
The hidden worlds within natural history museums - Joshua Drew
4:27
Why elephants never forget - Alex Gendler
5:23
Where do genes come from? - Carl Zimmer
4:24
Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms - Anje-Margriet Neutel
5:11
How do tornadoes form? - James Spann
4:12
What's hidden among the tallest trees on Earth? - Wendell Oshiro
4:47
The coelacanth: A living fossil of a fish - Erin Eastwood
4:17
Inside the ant colony - Deborah M. Gordon
4:47
A guide to the energy of the Earth - Joshua M. Sneideman
4:44
How to speak monkey: The language of cotton-top tamarins - Anne Savage
5:14
Attack of the killer algae - Eric Noel Muñoz
3:24
How bees help plants have sex - Fernanda S. Valdovinos
5:25
The colossal consequences of supervolcanoes - Alex Gendler
4:51
The science of symmetry - Colm Kelleher
5:09
How tsunamis work - Alex Gendler
3:37
Nature's smallest factory: The Calvin cycle - Cathy Symington
5:38
From the top of the food chain down: Rewilding our world - George Monbiot
5:28
Poison vs. venom: What's the difference? - Rose Eveleth
3:56
The Pangaea Pop-up - Michael Molina
4:26
How to fossilize...yourself - Phoebe A. Cohen
5:14
The popularity, plight and poop of penguins - Dyan deNapoli
5:24
The loathsome, lethal mosquito - Rose Eveleth
2:40
Bird migration, a perilous journey - Alyssa Klavans
4:10
Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet - Rose Eveleth
2:46
The Arctic vs. the Antarctic - Camille Seaman
4:25
What's below the tip of the iceberg? - Camille Seaman
4:52
Got seeds? Just add bleach, acid and sandpaper - Mary Koga
3:36
Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler
4:23
Vermicomposting: How worms can reduce our waste - Matthew Ross
4:30
The game-changing amniotic egg - April Tucker
4:30
Tracking grizzly bears from space - David Laskin
4:15
Reasons for the seasons - Rebecca Kaplan
5:21
Why do fingers become pruney? - Mark Changizi
4:21
The brilliance of bioluminescence - Leslie Kenna
4:09
How did feathers evolve? - Carl Zimmer
3:27
Making sense of how life fits together - Bobbi Seleski
4:53
How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics - Hortensia Jiménez Díaz
3:07
The simple story of photosynthesis and food - Amanda Ooten
4:01
Where we get our fresh water - Christiana Z. Peppard
3:47
Curiosity, discovery and gecko feet - Robert Full
9:10
How life came to land - Tierney Thys
5:28
Five fingers of evolution - Paul Andersen
5:24
The Cockroach Beatbox
6:16
Evolution in a Big City
5:16
Symbiosis: A surprising tale of species cooperation - David Gonzales
2:23
Sex Determination: More Complicated Than You Thought
5:46
How a fly flies - Michael Dickinson
15:56
The case of the vanishing honeybees - Emma Bryce
3:47
Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain - John C. Moore
3:51