The Insane Biology of: The Octopus

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YouTube description: There’s something you probably heard a lot in biology class. And no, it's not “mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell”...

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 months 1 week ago • 54 views

Scientists from UVM and Tufts repurposed living cells scraped from frog embryos and assembled them into entirely new life-forms. More: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1zVG8wptOOI https://youtu.be/XLI7VtjgOyk ... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 2 weeks ago • 164 views • 57 secs

"Ant venom delivery captured, for the first time, in slow-motion (1,000fps) & up-close video. The ants (and stingers) featured in this video are the Florida harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius and the trap-jaw... continue reading

posted by ant 1 year 5 months 3 weeks ago • 690 views • 3:31

YouTube description: Who would have thought baby electric eels would be so cute? I record their electric pulses and think about future research. Catania, K.C., 2015. Electric eels concentrate their... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 2 years 2 months ago • 662 views • 3:27

YouTube description: Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… Among living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 2 weeks ago • 603 views • 8:27

YouTube description: This is how we go from single cells to people. EVO-DEVO Huxley B. Mac. Oh Carroll, Carroll Gould, Stephen Jay yeah D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter See One cell divide and... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 4 months ago • 915 views • 4:46

youtube- TEDx Talks Published on Sep 7, 2017 Imagine a global "Hive Mind" that can tap the knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions of millions of people, and produce a super-intelligence that is... continue reading

posted by Buck 3 years 4 months 1 week ago • 116 views • 15:59

This video explains the, history, data and Biology behind what really matters to weight gain & The vicious cycle created by a bad diet

posted by Spacey 3 years 6 months 4 weeks ago • 20 views • 11:58

YouTube: How does one species evolve into two within the same habitat? Discover the details behind a rare type of evolution: sympatric evolution.

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 7 months ago • 227 views • 4:21

YouTube: What you don't know about your microbiome may kill you!!! ...or just give you diarrhea.

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 10 months 2 weeks ago • 71 views • 11:13

YouTube: There's a lot about sleep that we don't understand, like why we even sleep in the first place, for example. Here are some amazing discoveries biologists have made while trying to solve the mystery... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 3 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 144 views • 10:35

Not in my case ... YouTube: Okay- you lost weight, but what actually happened to those fat-storing cells?

posted by PlayhousePals 4 years 3 weeks ago • 19 views • 2:30

YouTube: Each year, we try to fight flu season with the influenza vaccine and this year is no different. But why is there a flu season at all and how do we fight it?

posted by PlayhousePals 4 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 123 views • 4:45

YouTube: In freezing cold sand, a burning hot mine, or even inside solid rock – these extremophiles live anywhere that you wouldn’t want to live. What are they? How can they live in such extreme places?

posted by PlayhousePals 4 years 4 months 1 week ago • 15 views • 4:01

YouTube: Evidence strongly suggests that men have, on average, a shorter lifespan than women, but scientists aren't exactly sure why that is. Check out today's QQ to learn more about this mortality mystery.

posted by PlayhousePals 4 years 5 months ago • 27 views • 2:47

YouTube: The world has a lot to thank Henrietta Lacks for, and yet many do not know what she has contributed. From helping to create the polio vaccine to the study of radiation, Henrietta and her HeLa... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 4 years 5 months 4 weeks ago • 19 views • 4:42

UPDATE: We're still working on a species ID with our science partners at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, but currently we're thinking the purple orb is a pleurobranch, a nudibranch relative.... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 6 months ago • 216 views • 3:12