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Bombardier beetle escapes from a toad’s stomach after launching a chemical attack
644 views / 2 likes - addedA hot chemical spray causes the predator to vomit. And the beetles walked away unscathed, some after bathing in the toad’s stomach juices for over an hour. Learn more: Read the research: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/2/20170647 produce
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These sluggish basking sharks break through the water as quickly as great whites
497 views / 3 likes - addedRead the research: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/14/9/20180537 CREDITS producer Sarah Crespi story by Courtney Miceli citation E. M. Johnston et al., Biology Letters 2018 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0537 basking shark footage Bren Whelan/Doneg
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Ants treat comrades injured on the field of battle
448 views / 2 likes - addedStrategy increases an ant’s odds of survival from 20% to 90% Read more - http://scim.ag/2sp0G9A ------------------------------------------------------------------ editor/animator/narrator Chris Burns supervising producers Sarah Crespi Nguyên Khôi Nguyên s
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Snippet: Humpback whales sweep fish into their mouths
258 views / 0 likes - addedResearchers have suspected for 90 years that humpbacks use their long fins to fish. But the drone footage is the first solid evidence.Read the story: https://scim.ag/32rR3VnRead the research: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/lookup/doi/10.1098/rsos.
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The Fastest Animal on Earth: the Snap-Jaw Ant
244 views / 0 likes - addedFind the original research paper here: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.181447Press release: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/727667"Snap-jaw morphology is specialized for high-speed power amplification in the Dracula ant, Mystrium c
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The average person can recognize 5000 faces
553 views / 0 likes - addedScientists estimate that most people have a ‘facial vocabulary’ of 1,000 – 10,000 Read more: https://scim.ag/2RCIyS8 Credits editor/ narrator Meagan Cantwell supervising producer Sarah Crespi citation R. Jenkins, A.J. Dowsett, and A.M. Burton The Royal So
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The secret to the dragonfly’s backwards flight
526 views / 0 likes - addedWork could inform aerial robots of the future Learn more: https://scim.ag/2KGBAaQ Read the paper: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/15/143/20180102 CREDITS producer Sarah Crespi story by Victoria Davis citation A. T. Bode-Oke, et al. Journal
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Snippet: Shipworms that eat rocks
345 views / 0 likes - addedShipworms have long been a menace to humankind, sinking ships, undermining piers, and even eating their way through Dutch dikes in the mid-1700s. Now, researchers have found the first shipworm that eschews wood for a very different diet: rock. Read more:
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Why Do We Have Two Brains?
26 views / 0 likes - addedThis was originally going to be one video but the more I read, the more information I wanted to share. So this is a precursor to the next video where the real meat of our two brains comes into play. Sources:BRAIN LATERALIZATION: A COMPARATIVEPERSPECTIVE -
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Snippet: Talking drums
398 views / 0 likes - addedIf you listen closely, the drumbeats of Amazonian tribes sound like human speech. Now the first in-depth study of how the drummers do it: Tiny variations in the time between beats match how words in the spoken language are vocalized. Read more: https://sc
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How Fish Get Away With Being Colorful
87 views / 0 likes - addedCoral reef fish get away with being colorful thanks to a weird quirk of underwater optics. LEARN MORE**************To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Visual resolution: the ability to see fine spatial detailSUPPORT
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Snippet: Larva devour a pizza in 2 hours
469 views / 0 likes - addedWatch a maggot ‘fountain’ devour waste food. Findings could help grub farmers using human food waste to produce larvae-based chicken feed. Read more - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/02/watch-maggot-fountain-devour-pizza-2-hours Read the paper - http
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Mimicry - When Animals Copy Other Animals
249 views / 0 likes - addedMimicry is one of the most intriguing and fascinating evolutionary phenomena. This video takes an in-depth look at this unique survival strategy as well as the evolutionary mechanisms that gave rise to it. Check out my new Patreon: https://www.patreon.com
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The Ichthyosaur That Refused to Die
184 views / 0 likes - addedA 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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Could Chat GPT Talk to Whales?
656 views / 0 likes - addedGet Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription:https://go.nebula.tv/realscienceWatch Becoming Human, exclusive on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-how-humans-started-speaking/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realscienceInstagram:
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A New Mosasaur Species | 7 Days of Science
213 views / 1 likes - addedJoin 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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Squid Proteins, but Make Them Fashion
240 views / 0 likes - addedHumans often take inspiration from nature when coming up with inventions, and this includes breakthroughs in fabric design that help to forward the fabulous and functional world of fashion.SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check
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Cockroach-inspired robots crashes into walls on purpose
481 views / 0 likes - addedTiny roach-bots ram their heads into walls to propel themselves upward. Read more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/watch-cockroach-inspired-robot-try-walk-through-walls Read the research: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/15/139/201706
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How do squirrels remember their nuts? #shorts #science
169 views / 1 likes - addedEmma Dauster: WriterAttabey Rodrguez Bentez: Script EditorKyle Nackers: Fact CheckerBonnie Meyer: Managing EditorSavannah Geary: Editor, Associate Producer, HostSarah Suta: ProducerCaitlin Hofmeister: Executive ProducerHank Green: Executive ProducerFor Mo
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Thallium - Periodic Table of Videos
142 views / 0 likes - addedA new video about the element Thallium.More links and info in full description Featuring Professor Martyn Poliakoff and Neil Barnes.Thanks to The Royal Society of Chemistry for supporting this episode: https://www.rsc.orgSome papers and credits...Prelimin
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Why Crows Are as Smart as 7 Year Old Humans
103 views / 0 likes - addedBe one of the first 200 people to sign up with this link and get 20% off your subscription with Brilliant.org! https://brilliant.org/realscience/ Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-why-crows-are-as-smart-as-7yearold-h
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Leeuwenhoek: The First Master of Microscopes
170 views / 0 likes - addedGo to https://curiositystream.com/microcosmos and use code "microcosmos" to sign up for CuriosityStream -- just $14.99 for the whole YEAR.Follow Journey to the Microcosmos:Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomicroFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Journ
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Unmixing Color Machine (Ultra Laminar Reversible Flow) - Smarter Every Day 217
668 views / 0 likes - added2nd Channel Video: https://youtu.be/57IMufyoCnQ Get your 1st Audiobook + 2 Audible Originals Free when you try Audible for 30 days: https://www.audible.com/smarter or text "smarter" to 500-500. Subscribe link http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED Click below for mo
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Why Is Lyme Disease Getting Worse?
391 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! https://twin-cities.umn.edu/Lyme disease is spreading like wildfire around the world: here's why.Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth and our YouTube member
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Why Are Foods Many Colors?
333 views / 0 likes - addedJessi helps Squeaks learn about why foods can be so many tasty-looking colors! Hosted by: Jessi Knudsen Castaeda----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowIf you have a question for
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Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood
186 views / 0 likes - addedThe first 1000 people to use the link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/journeytothemicrocosmos03211 Follow Journey to the Microcosmos:Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomicroFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Journ
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Most People Don't Know Wine Moves Like This | EVERYDAY MYSTERY
358 views / 0 likes - addedWine legs aka wine tears or wine fingers are stranger than they seem. Check out Vsauce3 Can You Survive the Movies!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfcdJ7sizcZero G with Veritasium and e-penser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1_AJWZajEkBursting Droplete
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Why Sharks get Creepier the Deeper you Go
704 views / 4 likes - addedWhy Deep Sea Sharks Appear so Mysterious. Sharks have ruled the deep sea for 450 million years. A time during which sharks have adapted and diversified into an array of weird and wonderful species. Many, like the well-known Great White Shark, have adapted
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Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?
56 views / 0 likes - addedDon't make us crabby! Join our Patreon at https://patreon.com/MinuteEarthMany crustaceans from all sorts of starting points evolve to end up looking similar, likely due to outside pressures. Thats sort of like what happens with YouTube videos.LEARN MORE**
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Why the Heck Are We Ticklish?
355 views / 0 likes - addedWere 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 Ive explained a lot of weird bodily functions on this show but theres one that we haven
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When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
519 views / 2 likes - addedTry 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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What is a fractal? A lens to infinity
1,233 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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Diatoms: Tiny Factories You Can See From Space
338 views / 0 likes - addedWe owe so much to diatoms! They help us make beer, paint, and kitty litter, and they're responsible for some of the air you're breathing right now!Follow Journey to the Microcosmos:Twitter: https://twitter.com/journeytomicroFacebook: https://www.facebook.
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About That Snap
183 views / 0 likes - addedSciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. Researchers were inspired by a certain purple villain to study the physics of finger snapping, and they found that the mundane han
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How We Learned That Water Isn't An Element
78 views / 0 likes - addedKeep exploring at https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth. Get started for free, and hurry the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription.For thousands of years, water was thought to be an element. That is, until some of the greatest chemists i
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The Frog with Hidden Claws
151 views / 0 likes - addedA frog with retractable claws? Weird. A frog with claws that it has to push through its skin to use? Even weirder.Hosted by: Hank GreenSciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow ----------Support SciShow by becoming a patron on
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When Rodents Had Horns
339 views / 0 likes - addedThese odd rodents belong to a genus known as Ceratogaulus, but theyre more commonly called horned gophers, because, you guessed it, they had horns.And it turns out the horns probably had a purpose - one that rodents would likely benefit from today.Samanth
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Nature's Most Surprising Projectiles
126 views / 0 likes - addedBe one of the first 200 people to sign up with this link and get 20% off your subscription with Brilliant.org! https://brilliant.org/realscience/ Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-natures-wildest-weaponsPatreon: http
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Echolocation: Seeing with Sound! | Senses | SciShow Kids
292 views / 1 likes - addedSqueaks and Mister Brown learn all about echolocation, and how animals use it to sense things!Hosted by: Anthony Brown----------Love SciShow Kids and want to help support it? Become a Patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishowIf you have a questio
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Fast Fact: Why Some Frozen Lakes Catch Fire
237 views / 0 likes - addedSciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. Did you know that, despite their serene, picturesque appearance, some frozen lakes can catch fire? Why are climate scientists stud
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The Most Useful Fossils in the World
1,168 views / 0 likes - addedTry 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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Why Do We Talk To Dogs Like That?
365 views / 0 likes - addedSkillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! Try it here: https://skl.sh/scishow-14 Why is it that every time you see an adorable puppy in the park or outside a cafe your voice suddenly jumps up about two o
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Why Is It so Hard to Swat a Fly?
147 views / 0 likes - addedSciShow is supported by Brilliant.org. Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual Premium subscription. Flies are evasive buzzing machines that make it nearly impossible to swat. Luckily, science has some explanation to help you predi
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Why is Carbon the Key to Life? (On Earth, Anyway)
327 views / 0 likes - addedOne element is the backbone of all forms of life weve ever discovered on Earth: carbon. Number six on the periodic table is, to the best of our knowledge, impossible to live without. In this episode of Reactions, discover what makes carbon so exceptional,
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Why Your Dog Can Remember Smells and You Can't
211 views / 0 likes - addedDogs have some seriously impressive sniffers. But why are dog noses so powerful and how is it that they can remember precise smells over long periods of time? Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker Visit our shop at http://shop.seeker.comIt al
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The Game You Win By Losing (Parrondo's Paradox)
786 views / 0 likes - addedWatch my collab with Donut Media: https://youtu.be/1RNc-2hpHP8Thanks to Donut Media for supporting Vsauce2 and having me on their channel. Go check them out and support them. They're great!While working on the interplay between thermodynamics and informat
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How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System
185 views / 0 likes - addedFor your chance to win two seats on one of the first commercial flights to space with Virgin Galactic all while supporting a great cause enter at https://omaze.com/minuteearth.While the rest of the worlds megafauna are still foundering in the anthropocene
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The Wonderful World of Insect Mouths | SciShow Kids
22 views / 0 likes - addedIn this episode, Jessi and Squeaks learn about the many kinds of mouths insects can have, and why they look so different!Teachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!First Grade Next Generati
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Why Apple Pie Isn't American
580 views / 0 likes - addedJoin our Reddit AskScience discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/6d3a4b/discussion_minuteearths_newest_video_on_the/ Buy the map & T-shirts at our store: http://dftba.com/MinuteEarth Our diets are more global than we realize, because
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Let's Look at Constellations! | How We Study Space | SciShow Kids
204 views / 0 likes - addedTeachers and parents: scroll down to check out the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) for this episode!Today, Jessi and Sam the Bat take a look at constellations. Humans have been looking up at the sky for a long time and seeing all kinds of picture
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Turtle Travel Tips: How Magnets Can Help Us Navigate | Magnetoreception
318 views / 0 likes - addedWhen people travel a long distance, they'll usually use a map. But there are lots of animals that travel really long distances, too, and they can't use maps... so how do they not get lost? Our friend Dr. Turtleman calls in to explain! First Grade Next Gen
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Does Someone Else Have Your Face?
546 views / 0 likes - addedTo learn more about Brilliant, check out https://brilliant.org/BeSmart/ SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss a video! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ They say everyone has a doppelgänger, but is that really true? This week we meet a
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The Problem With Life Expectancy
193 views / 0 likes - addedGo to https://bit.ly/noom_minuteearth and take your free 30-second quiz! Thank you #noom for sponsoring todays video!In order to truly understand differences among animal lifespans, we need to stop thinking about a specific number and start thinking about
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How Your Dog's Nose Knows So Much | Deep Look
597 views / 1 likes - addedSupport Deep Look on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/deeplook Dogs have a famously great sense of smell, but what makes their noses so much more powerful than ours? They're packing some sophisticated equipment inside that squishy schnozz. SUBSCRIBE to De
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Why Some Fruits Won't Ripen On Your Counter
149 views / 0 likes - addedThank you to HelloFresh for sponsoring this video! Use code EARTH14 for up to 14 FREE MEALS across your first 5 HelloFresh boxes plus free shipping at https://bit.ly/3vvSdyoTrying to ripen some fruits on your kitchen counter is totally fruitless - here's
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How The Six Degrees Phenomenon Has Changed Science
360 views / 0 likes - addedGo to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their Artificial Neural Networks course. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription.You may have heard about the Six Degrees of Separation phenomenon, but it isn't just a fun celebrity g
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The Triassic Reptile With "Two Faces"
308 views / 0 likes - addedFiguring out what this creatures face actually looked like would take paleontologists years. But understanding this weird animal can help us shine a light on at least one way for ecosystems to bounce back from even the worst mass extinction.Thanks to Ceri
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The Ancient Animal With a Boomerang Head! | SciShow Kids
78 views / 0 likes - addedSqueaks and Jessi discover an animal with a head that reminds them of a boomerang. Its name is Diplocaulus, and they'll learn all about how that funny head helped it live a very long time ago!Hosted by: Jessi Knudsen Castaeda (she/her/they/them)Teachers a
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How eclipses proved that the Earth is slowing down
76 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), part of NASAs Science Activation portfolio.Without eclipses, our world would be a lot different because eclipses give us the ability to do science we otherwise wouldnt
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How To Go Extinct
406 views / 0 likes - addedSign up for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/Nkq830qWCShOur new evolution simulator reveals that extinction often happens when conditions change quickly. Check it out here: https://labs.minutelabs.io/evolution-simulator/Thanks
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Weird and Wonderful: Some worms like it hot
138 views / 1 likes - addedPompeii worms are enigmatic animals that are only found on the surface of active hydrothermal chimneys. Their name refers to the ancient Roman city of Pompeii that was destroyed by ash raining down from an eruption of the large volcano Mount Vesuvius just
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The Palm Oil Catastrophe
280 views / 0 likes - addedThe history of palm oil production and how it lead to a climate catastrophe. Facebook: https://facebook.com/nextobserver Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/nextobserver Sources Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions
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Why Do Animals Eat Their Babies?
3,837 views / 2 likes - addedSometimes, it makes sense for critters across the animal kingdom to chow down on their own young. Thanks to http://www.audible.com/minuteearth for sponsoring this video. If you enjoyed this video, you might want to check out this one by Jesse Agar: Why ki
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How Quantum Mechanics Affects Your Life
250 views / 0 likes - addedWhile you might not think about quantum mechanics being part of your everyday life, it turns out that it might play a role in some of the most familiar things, from the sunlight in the trees to the nose on your face!Hosted by: Stefan ChinSciShow has a spi
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Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From?
158 views / 0 likes - addedOrder your copy of How To Prevent The Next Pandemic here: https://www.amazon.com/Prevent-Next-Pandemic-Bill-Gates/dp/0593534484 The most likely cause of the next pandemic will be the spillover of a disease from one of a select group of animals with partic
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Does It Pay To Cheat?
193 views / 0 likes - addedThanks Thryve for sponsoring the video. Get 50% off your gut health test at https://trythryve.com/MinuteEarthFor some birds, trying to cheat your neighbors into raising your babies is just as much work - and is no more successful - than doing it yourself.
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4 Mysterious Extinctions from Earths History
197 views / 0 likes - addedNowadays, we're pretty confident about how the dinosaurs died out, but there are still other extinctions throughout Earth's history, some big, some small, that remain unsolved.Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't WalkSciShow is on TikTok! Check us out at https://ww
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The Great Acceleration
291 views / 0 likes - addedThanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/Were in the middle of a rapid, unprecedented, and world-changing increase in the intensity and scale of human activity on this planet.Thanks also to our Patreon pa
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Where The Weird Things Are
59 views / 0 likes - addedWe made this video in partnership with the Bik Lab at University of Georgia and the National Science Foundation.Life in Antarctica's ocean has followed a completely different evolutionary path from other ocean life because of how cold and isolated the oce
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How Do Some Waves Get SO Big?
224 views / 0 likes - addedGet 10% off all orders with code MINUTEEARTH now through May 31. After that, code is valid on 6" and 8.5" only. Shop now on https://bit.ly/MinuteEarthGlobes.All over the world, giant wave breaks appear because of underwater geology that supercharges their
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How Two Microbes Changed History
597 views / 0 likes - addedWhat 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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How Birds Almost Escalated The Cold War
199 views / 0 likes - addedTo find out how you can help Nature Canada protect at least 30% of the worlds lands and ocean by 2030, visit https://www.naturecanada.ca/?utm_source=MinuteEarth.A technology to ignore birds on radar ended up being useful to study and conserve them.LEARN M
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Orchids: The Masters Of Lying, Cheating & Stealing
737 views / 2 likes - addedThanks to Curtin University and the University of Western Australia for sponsoring this video. Also, special thanks to Kingsley Dixon and the Orchid Specialist Group of the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission. ______ If you want to learn more about this to
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Starfish Gallop With Hundreds of Tubular Feet | Deep Look
459 views / 1 likes - addedThey may look cute and colorful, but starfish are actually voracious predators. To sniff out and capture their prey, they rely on hundreds of water-propelled tube feet, each with a fiercely independent streak. Watch the new PBS Terra science show, OVERVIE
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Why Biodiversity Is Good For The Economy
964 views / 0 likes - addedResearch suggests that more diverse ecosystems are better for the bottom line. Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ Credits (and Twitter handles): Script Writer: Peter Reich Script Editor: Kate Yoshi
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Is Bigger Better?
144 views / 0 likes - addedThis video was made in partnership with Popsci! They recently published their "Muscles" issue, and wrote an article to go along with this video that you can read here: https://popsci.com/environment/strongest-animal-by-weightElephants might be strong, but
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