Vetulicolians are weird. First, they were thought to be an arthropod because of their segmentation, but due to the presence of gill slits and nothocord, Vetulicolians are now placed as stem chordates.... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 weeks 1 day ago • 109 views • 2:01

From YouTube, "Our home is burning. Rapid climate change is destabilizing our world. It seems our emissions will not fall quickly enough to avoid runaway warming and we may soon hit tipping points that... continue reading

posted by w1ndex 2 years 11 months 1 week ago • 145 views • 16:11

YouTube description: Check out Otherwords, a new show about language & linguistics! https://youtu.be/d2UccTPnl4w It might surprise you but cephalopods have a pretty good fossil record, with one major... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 8 months ago • 384 views • 8:22

YouTube description: We're going fossil hunting for Foraminifera! From beaches, to the ocean floor, to the foundation of the Egyptian pyramids, Forams are everywhere!... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 2 months 1 week ago • 11 views • 7:58

An excavation of a rare dinosaur fossil goes horribly wrong. It’s left to paleo technicians to try and salvage what they can.

posted by newtboy 4 years 10 months ago • 1,359 views • 4:17

YT: We tend to think of fossils as dinosaur bones or petrified wood, but what if we told you that there's a lot we can learn from fossilized waste?

posted by Fantomas 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 72 views • 11:54

YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 443 views • 4:19

Electric cars are touted as a solution for reducing emissions and improving the environmental impacts of transportation, but are electric cars actually any better for the environment than gasoline cars?... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 475 views • 13:47

YouTube description: One of the most dynamic, transformative, and potentially dangerous features in North America is also responsible for some of the continent’s most amazing fossil deposits. It’s... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 3 weeks ago • 272 views • 9:39

YouTube description In 1800s, miners began working in exposed deposits of mud near the town of Messel, Germany. They were extracting oil from the rock and along with the oil, they found beautifully... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 7 months 4 weeks ago • 521 views • 8:34

YouTube description: 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... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 615 views • 7:00

YouTube: Go see if Eons is for you: http://www.youtube.com/eons Other cool things about Trilobites People have been collecting them for at least tens of thousands of years, as they've been found in... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 7 years 8 months 2 weeks ago • 105 views • 3:39

YouTube description: Oslo is the Tesla capital of the world. I spent a day in Oslo before traveling to Svalbard, and noticed that there were Teslas everywhere. Upon further investigation, I learned... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 9 months ago • 785 views • 7:10

YouTube: The question isn't will warming happen; the question is how bad will it be?

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 2 months 1 week ago • 758 views • 2:24

The potential benefits are world changing!

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 5 months ago • 184 views • 5:12

YouTube: You might think of national parks as a nice place to see a geyser, or a big ol’ canyon, but over the past 100 years, US national parks have produced some of the biggest, oldest, deepest, and... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 8 years 9 months ago • 217 views • 9:38

YouTube: At least one entire class of dinosaurs seems to have had feathers -- including velociraptors, and probably T. rex. Find out how we know, and how we even know what color some of them were!

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 5 months ago • 31 views • 4:43

YouTube: How do you make an archaeologist really mad, really fast? Ask her if she’s found any dinosaurs. SciShow helps you Know Your Scientists by explaining the many differences between archaeology... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 9 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 24 views • 5:05