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Evolution

Illustration of a squid emitting a glowing cloud while a submarine passes closely. Vampire Squid. Caption: but some animals use it to warn or evade predators,
1 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Closeup side view of an ensatina salamander with a long black body with orange spots, short legs, and a long tail.
Deep Look
Season 7 / Ep 12
4 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man stands in front of a black background as he talks to us.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 23
7 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A bone is placed before a wolf, who staring vigilantly at fire.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 2
9 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman stands in front of a black background as she talks to us. An image next to her shows a person crouching next to a small fire as they reach a big stick into the flames.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 27
11 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Lots of Flypaper Traps with a bug stuck on one of them. Text reads, “Flypaper Traps, video courtesy of Deep Look - KQED. From their video ‘Cape Sundews Trap Bugs in A Sticky Situation.'”
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 22
9 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
An illustration depicts a pair of reptile like dinosaurs running in a desert. Image credit: Ceri Thomas.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 36
8 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man stands in front of a black backdrop as he talks to us.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 16
9 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Male lion roars at us.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 14
7 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Colorful timeline labeled “Cenozoic Era” that starts at 66 MYA in light green to Present Day in light yellow. In the middle there is a dark green block labeled, “Eocene Epoch.”
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 21
8 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration shows an interpretation of how a hell pig would look like in the desert. The pig looks like a longer warthog with a long nose and prominent cheekbones.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 24
7 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A painting depicts scientists comparing Piltdown Man's remains to other species. Charles Dawson and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward are seen standing together.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 33
9 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Museum with large recreations of ancient mammals such as a deer, armadillo-like animal, and a rhino ancestor with a long neck and small head called a Paraceratherium. People walk at the feet of the statues.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 26
7 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Aerial view of a crocodile peeking its head up slightly above bright green water.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 4
7 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Man faces camera against a black background, gesturing with both hands out and forward.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 7
9 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
An illustration depicts an extinct animal, the Giant Lemur.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 37
10 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A large group of penguins.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 55
10 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Woman talks to us in front of a black background like she's doing an interview.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 20
8 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
Man talks to us in front of a black background like he's doing an interview.
Eons
Season 2 / Ep 28
12 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
White cartoon lobster with a line the same length of its tail next to it.
Eons
Season 3 / Ep 24
6 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
An illustration depicts the sinuses present in a human skull.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 7 / Ep 26
11 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
ASL
Diagram. Eight small strands with one or two red lines on them that represent DNA. The red lines are labeled two, six, seven, nine, ten, fourteen, fifteen, and X.” Next to the smaller strands is a bigger strand that is labeled “Twelve, NANOG, broken NANOG, pseudogenes.”
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 6 / Ep 21
6 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
ASL
Man talks to us in a room with a bookcase filled with books and knick-knacks like a Gundam toy, small globe, and a model of a space rocket.
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 9 / Ep 3
19 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
ASL
Man in glasses and zip sweatshirt parts lips in mid-speech. Bookshelves line wall in background. Title card reads, ''Cerebellum."
It's Okay to Be Smart
Season 8 / Ep 8
9 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Bat with wings extended spots on the rib of one wing highlighted. Caption: We're interested in bat flight mechanics and how they fly.
Science Nation
Episode 169
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Black butterflies with orange and white wings on a bright orange flower. Caption: (narrator) The colors signal to birds, "Don't eat me, I'm toxic."
Science Nation
Episode 137
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Icons of people placed all around the world with lines connecting them to each other. Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. Caption: We've taken that research online, looking at Facebook.
Science Nation
Episode 204
2 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Map of the world with central and southern Africa highlighted. Arrows indicate movement from there to all areas of the globe. Caption: after the first homo sapiens left Africa 100,00 years ago.
Science Nation
Episode 158
2 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Small lizard on a hand. Caption: They are the same species but may be diverging into two.
Science Nation
Episode 224
3 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two monkeys in a cage. Caption: (narrator) Our language skills sets us apart from our primate cousins.
Science Nation
Episode 174
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Fish with a suction cup at the mouth area holding on to a nearly vertical surface. Caption: and suction cup that holds to the surface.
Science Nation
Episode 49
3 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12