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MinuteEarth — 548 episodes
What's the most heat the human body can take?
ALL THE APES, EXPLAINED 🦍🦧🐒
Methanes molecular shape helps it trap heat!
This map shows the worlds animals!
This cat published a physics paper!
If a megalodon - the largest shark ever - fought a great white, who would win?
Cloud Formation
What's ecological redundancy
Learning Languages
Exercise More
Dying Old
Feeling Pain
Why colorblindness is much more common in males
How High Can Birds Fly?
Why humans faint
If having one “good” hand is good, why don’t we have two?
Why don’t animals wipe their butts
Airplane travel is kind of the worst
Could Squirtle exist in real life?
Could Bulbasaur exist in real life?
How To Kill A Volcano
Babies Bones
Volcano Formation
The Weird Reason Rabies Is So Deadly
Coffee webcam
Coffee olympics
The most powerful volcanoes in the world - supervolcanoes, which can alter the entire earth’s climate with one eruption - require three things to get really explosive.
If you don’t like broccoli, you might have a good excuse.
Capsaicin and Menthol trick our brains
Caribbean hermit crabs are always growing
Trash vs. Garbage
Frozen food
Why Don't Blue Whales Eat Fish?
Suburbs vs Cities
Why Bees Mostly Ignore The Waggle Dance
Fetus Poop
Biological Control
There’s Really Only One Way To Die
yellow crazy ants
Invasive species
Could This Thing *Really* Fly?
Delta Works
Hottest Place
When Does It Make Sense To Kill Your Sibling?
Cold Sap
Frozen Trees
40 Years Without A New Antibiotic. Why?
Before rainforests
Rainforests
Why Hives Turn Against Their Queens
Garbage again
Garbage
Why Haven't We Domesticated Monkeys?
Deep Sea Fish
Metal Hoarders
There’s no such thing as a fake feather
Metal Hoarders
Metal Plants
Why is it always males that get eaten during sex?
Turbines
Dog Breeds
ALL THE CATS, EXPLAINED
Nefarious Plants
Plant Gossip
Why Don't Our Bones Keep Growing Forever?
Teamwork
Plant Injury
Do Mushrooms Benefit from Being Hallucinogenic?
Weight Dispute
Tallest Organism
Three Specific Ways AI Could Kill Us All
Immortal Jellyfish
Telomeres
How Deep Can Caves Get?
Scavenging Hyenas
Hyena Families
Why Grass Grows Better Under Trampolines
Hyena Poop
Young Earth
What Happens When Scientists Work With Unexpected Experts
You've Been Misled About The Water Cycle
What I Learned on Monkey Island
Bats and Viruses
Sugar Dust
ALL THE DOGS, EXPLAINED
Why Coyotes Are IMPOSSIBLE To Exterminate
The Problem with Antivenom
TNT vs Dynamite
The Norway rat
This Video Took Us 8 Years To Make
When Evolution Glitches Out
Why The Frequency Illusion Is Everywhere Now
Bulbasaur’s Feet
Opportunistic Researchers
Another Ancestor Paradox
Which Planet Has The Strongest Quakes?
The Science Of Slipperiness
Pollen Is Not Plant Sperm (It’s MUCH Weirder)
Your Favorite YouTube Channels Might Not Survive This
Could Pikachu exist in real life?
Could Charmander exist in real life?
How do fish get into isolated mountain lakes?
The Ancestor Paradox
inside of your body is REALLY LOUD
Are Scientists Going Extinct?
Why Don’t All Rivers Make Canyons?
Smallest Rodent
Lemmings Suicide
Why Haven't We Cured Cancer?
Electrical Wires Made Of Bacteria?!
What Happens When Predators Disappear?
Why Don't Snakes Poison Themselves?
Why Do Butterflies Bother Being Caterpillars?
Hamsters vs Gerbil
Categorize Mice
How To Take A Dinosaur's Temperature
The Species That Broke Evolution?
Why There Are No King Bees
The Deadliest Thing At The Beach
ALL Plants Have Color Vision?!
Frogger
Plowed Owls
Why Monkeys Can Only Count To Four
The Truth About Petri Dishes 🧫
memes go viral cuz they're so sick
How Does Birth Control Work?
Why is the number of languages "increasing"?
Invasive Pythons
Smooshed Snakes
Why Don't We Eat Carnivores?
Why does the north get more total eclipses?
What’s Eating The Titanic?
Why Do All YouTube Videos Look Alike?
Who’s Eating All The Spiders?
Hedgehogs Survey
Perfect Predator
Weird Things Animals Do During Eclipses
How Much Gold is in Our Poop?
Inside The Sunny Center of a Hurricane
The Never Ending Lightning Storm
Identify Antibodies
Capillary Action
Why Don't Electric Eels Shock Themselves?
The time I was a human incubator
Why Flushing Isn't For Everyone
Why Hurricane Paths Are WEIRD
The Antarctic Ocean is WEIRD
Plague Test
False Results
Why Did It Take Us So Long?
Eclipses Used To Be Terrifying
Apparently tree FINGERPRINTS are a thing
How eclipses proved that the Earth is slowing down
Why Do Weeping Willows Weep?
Naming COVID-19
Swine Flu
This Chemical Does Nothing, But It's Still Bad For You
Is Bigger Better?
The WEIRD Way Monkeys Got to America
In The Future, Death Will Be Different
Why Do People Hate Koalas? (ft. @tibees )
Micro Extinction
Softwood Pollination
Why Are They All In Antarctica?
Should More Species Be Extinct?
These Countries Are Cheating
How Fish Get Away With Being Colorful
Why Most Fossils Are Incomplete
Softwood Hardness
Janka Scale
Ancient Humans Made Millions Of These - We Don’t Know Why
Why We Haven’t Learned More In 101 Years Of Trying
This Is Not A Bug
How Caffeine Accidentally Took Over The World
Is Pregnancy A Disease?
Softwood Evolution
Colloquial and Taxonomic
You Can’t Actually Die Of Old Age
The Weird Sex Lives of Bluegills
The Disease You Will Never Survive
Why Do Heart Attacks Cause *Arm* Pain?
What Is The Best Shape For A Farm?
Angiosperms and Gymnosperms
Hardwoods and Softwoods
When Was The Worst Time In History To Die?
The 3 Reasons This Tree Has Lived 5000 Years
Why It's Impossible To Win a Nuclear War
When Tree Planting Goes Wrong
Which Is Worse: Underpopulation Or Overpopulation?
Balsa Hardwood
Dog Years
What if We Replaced Nuclear With Potatoes
How We Learned That Water Isn't An Element
There’s No Such Thing As “Warm-” Or “Cold-” Blooded
Mushroom Wars
The Couch Candy Protocol
Different Thunders
Thunder Shockwave
The Plant You Don’t Have To Water
We Have No Idea Why
When 90dB is LOUDER than 120dB
Why Weather Forecasts Suck
What Happens When A Volcano Meets a Glacier?
Shock wave
What’s Thunder
How Do Abortion Pills Work?
Why Continents Are High
Our Lungs Have A Fatal Flaw
Vampire Life is Hard
Do Other Diseases Have "Long" Versions?
Whale Sounds
Stable Stations
The Actual Reason Men Die First
Why Is There So Much Land In The North?
The Super Secrets of Sewage
They all do the same, but we still need them
Where Will The Next Pandemic Come From?
Bertha Benz
Favorite Green
Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything
Screens are NOT the reason kids need glasses 👀
The Freshwater Paradox
Why Do Humans Vomit So Much? 🤮
Is Soil Alive?
Disasters Price
Cheaper Alternatives
Bitcoin mining is a lot like reindeer mating 🪙💖🦌
The Cheapest Way To Save A Life
Which is Worse?
Why The Ocean Needs Salt
Why The Weather Is Worse At The Mall
Coal Harm
Specific Energy
How Birds Fooled Military Radar
The Most Common Allergy In The World
Why The Shortest Day Of The Year Isn't The Coldest
The Plankton Paradox
Why Some Fruits Won’t Ripen On Your Counter
Jet Fuel
Visible Plates
Hyena Butter: Everything You Did And Didn't Want To Know
The Hurricane Category Scale Is Broken
How To Solve Every Global Crisis
The Place Where Time Flows Backwards
The Science of Hobbit Gluttony
Sinking Plates
Convection Currents
Why Sharks Are Covered In Teeth
How A Whale And A Bear Beat The System
How To Survive Poison
Why These Bears “Waste” Food
How Fevers REALLY Work
Moving Plates
Plate Tectonics
How Long Did People Use To Live?
We don't know what a tree is (and this video won't tell you)
Why It's Good To Have A Weak Hand
An Unexpected Consequence of COVID
The Lost Penis Enigma
Mountain weather
Soil creep
Why We Faint (When Other Animals Don't)
How Do Some Waves Get SO Big?
The Ecology of Superheroes
Proteins: Explained
Which Will Kill You First?
Subterranean River
Chimps and Bonobos
Why "Nothing" Matters in Science
The Problem With Life Expectancy
I found the BEST coronavirus depiction (+ explanation)
Dogs vs Cats: The Diversity Paradox
Four Reasons Our Brains Suck At Pandemics
Gigantopithecus
Categorize Apes
How Firestorms Form
Why Most New Species Are Discovered By Amateurs
Does It Pay To Cheat?
The Plant That’s Full Of Metal
The Best Pokémon (According to Science)
Cow Fences
Wolf Fences
Dangerous Marshmallows?!
The Science of Roadkill
Why Doesn't All Thunder Sound The Same?
Can Pregnancy Tests Help Beat COVID-19?
Why Hardwoods Are The Softest Woods
Beehive Fences
Orange Roughy
How To Hear Halfway Around The World
Why You’re More Likely To Die In Winter
Why Does This Shrimp Cost More Than A Car?
Why Sewers Around the World Keep Overflowing
How To Go Extinct
Underdog Species
Kangaroo Etymology
Why People Hate Hyenas
Will Gas Stations Survive?
*If We Aren't Too Late
YouTube Is Misleading You. Help Us Make It Better.
The Best Worst Energy Source
Tasmanian Tumors
Wallaby Milk
Is There A Better Way To Power Airplanes?
Why You Can't Build A Clone Army... (Yet)
Why Wolves Don't Chirp
Why Do We STILL Use Lead Pipes?!
This Atom Can Predict The Future
Poop vs. Pap
Opossum vs. Possum
The Extinction Happening Inside You
How to Work From Home as a Team
How To Name A Disease (Like COVID-19)
Why Don't More Animals Eat Wood?
Where Does One Ocean End And Another Begin?
Categorize Marsupials
Vulture Food
How This River Made Chimps Violent
The Fastest-Growing Plant In The World
How To Turn Poop Into Power
You Have More Bones Than You Think
Why It’s HARD To Bring A New Apple To Market
Most realistic dragon
Proportional dragons
Nobody Really Knows What A Concussion Is
The Great Acceleration
Can AI Help Us Identify Animals?
Smartphones: A New Model for Energy Efficiency?
The Best Dragon (According to Science)
Sex Ratios
Asparagus Pee
How Much Air Can A Tree Hold?
Why Are Adults So Bad At New Languages?
How The Modern World Tricks Our Bodies Into Hurting Themselves
Why Exercise Is Hard
The Secret Global Sewer System
Keeled dragons
Four-limbed dragons
How We Evolved To Browse The Web
Our Best View Of Bacteria Is...From Space?!
The Bacteria That Made Life Possible Is Now Killing Us
The Cruel Irony Of Air Conditioning
Why We Should Invest In Rat Massage
Baloo
Wood Lignin
Monoclonal Antibodies | How to Turn Cancer Against Itself
Why you should abandon some of your dreams
Why kids skip school (& what to do about it)
This Country Has Something Everyone Else Wants
The Secrets of Extreme Breath Holding
Panda Coloring
Grolar Bears
Why Is Lyme Disease Getting Worse?
Why Can't We Get Power From Waves?
You Are A Fish
The Problem With Concrete
Why Earthquakes Are So Hard To Predict
Black Bears
Let’s Categorize Bears
Why Are Your Fingerprints Unique?
The Bird Poop That Changed The World
These Names Can Kill Animals
Why Are Fewer People Getting Appendicitis?
Why Do You Make So Many Poop Videos? (& Other Questions)
Lion’s Mane
River Timelapse
The Secret Weapon That Could Help Save Bees
Why Malaria Isn’t Just A Tropical Disease
Why Do Some Animals Eat Poop?
Why Are There Penguins At The Equator?
Why Earth Has Two Levels | Hypsometric Curve
Carbonaceous Chondrite
Planet Formation
The Similarity Trap
Rise Of The Mesopredator🎵
How Long Can We Live?
When Trees Go Nuts
Why You Shouldn't Give Ginger To Monkeys (and other animal sayings)
Mountain Sink
Mars River
Milk Is Just Filtered Blood
Are Plastics Too Strong?
How Much Food Is There On Earth?
Is It Safe To Get Your DNA Tested?
Why Electroshock Therapy Is Back
Animal Behavior
Colliding Plates
Why Our Favorite Crops Live Fast and Die Young
A Disease's Guide to World Domination
Why Do Birds Migrate Like This?
Are "Acts of God" Disappearing?
Why Pets Have Surprisingly Small Brains
Tongue Tanning
Leather Making
Why Do Some Animals Get Gigantic?
Why Bird Penises Are So Weird
Where Do Our Drugs Come From?
Why Do Female Hyenas Have Pseudo-Penises?!
Why Farming is Broken (And Always Has Been)
Avoid Tannins
Rabbit Poop
Why Do India And China Have So Many People?
Why Is Syrup Sticky?
Our Definition For “Moon” Is Broken (Collab. w/ MinutePhysics)
UPSIDE-DOWN Rivers On Mars?! (Response to MinutePhysics)
TRANSPARENT Solar Panels?!
Cassowary Poop
Gorilla Poop
Why It Sucks to Be a Male Hyena
Invasion Of The Earthworms!
Why So Many Meteorites Come From The Same Place
What Nuclear Bombs Taught Us About Whales
Why Does Wine Make Your Mouth Feel Dry?
Poop Composition
Quokka Mom
Is it a bee, a wasp, a fly, or a moth?
Why Apple Pie Isn't American
Why Most Rain Never Reaches The Ground
Why Don't Sled Dogs Ever Get Tired?
Why Don’t Sheep Shrink In The Rain?
Nutritious Poop
Bald Vultures
Why Some Molecules Have Evil Twins
How Cats Became our Feline Overlords (ft. It's Okay To Be Smart)
What Makes A Dinosaur?
Why Is A Group Of Crows Called A “Murder”?
Ambergris: Why Perfume Makers Love Constipated Whales
Oxbow Lake
Square Cube
Why Are Snakes So Creepy?
Why Did T Rex Have Such Tiny Arms?
Why Is Poop Brown And Pee Yellow?
Should We Grow Human Organs In Pigs?
Why Don't Americans Eat Reindeer?
Cannibal Hamsters
Air Conditioners
How These Sea Shells Know the Weather in Greenland
How Humans Made Malaria So Deadly
Why Only Some Monkeys Have Awesome Tails
Why Are There So Many Tigers In Texas?
Why Do Animals Eat Their Babies?
Arctic Colors
Coyotes are very closely related to wolves and dogs
Why Biodiversity Is Good For The Economy
How Different Are Different Types of Dogs?
Which Parts Of The Brain Do What?
The Faint Young Sun Paradox!
How To (Literally) Save Earth
Let’s categorize dogs!
Caffeinated Bees
Can Math Explain How Animals Get Their Patterns?
Null Island: The Busiest Place That Doesn't Exist
Which Bear Is Best?
Would You Drink Water Made From Sewage?
Orchids: The Masters Of Lying, Cheating & Stealing
Grass is the ultimate comeback kid
Measuring the speed of light in your microwave
How We Make MinuteEarth Videos (Behind the Scenes)
Why We Sucked At Counting Fish (Until Now)
The Energy Cost of a YouTube Video
Should We Contact Uncontacted Peoples?
Who Are Flowers Trying To Seduce?
The cat’s meow is only for humans
Ichthyology is all Greek to me!
How Much Does Meat Actually Cost?
How Mushrooms Make It Rain
Males vs. Females: Sexual Conflict
Which Fish Did We Evolve From?
How Many Mass Extinctions Have There Been?
The black panther isn’t a species of cat
Jaguars and Leopards: how to tell them apart
This is Not A Pine Tree
Why Do Rivers Have Deltas?
Climate Change: The View From MinuteEarth
Epigenetics: Why Inheritance Is Weirder Than We Thought
How To Avoid The Next Atlantis
Let’s categorize cats!
Orchids are liars, impostors and moochers, but the Australian Hammer Orchid is the worst
The Real Reason Leaves Change Color In the Fall
How Risky Are Vaccines?
How Fighting Wildfires Makes Them Worse
We're Oversalting Our Food, And It's Not What You Think
Why Are There Dangerous Ingredients In Vaccines?
“emoticon” vs. “emoji”
Porcupines!
Do We Have to Get Old and Die?
Is Climate Change Just A Lot Of Hot Air?
Are We Really 99% Chimp?
Rain's Dirty Little Secret
Should We Let Pandas Go Extinct?
Bamboo is a grass
Life sucks if you’re a male - hyena, that is
Why Are There Clouds?
Why Don't Scavengers Get Sick?
Why do Some Species Thrive in Cities?
Tidal Locking | Why Do We Only See One Side of the Moon?
This Is Your Brain On Extreme Weather
You can’t judge a bark by its cover
The real kids meal
Why Poor Places Are More Diverse
Plate Tectonics Explained
Why Do Rivers Curve?
How two butterflies became one
How to Build a Better City
This duck is screwed up
Smaller brains, better pets
Why Do Bats Carry So Many Diseases? (like Coronavirus)
Why is it Hot Underground?
The Secret Social Life of Plants
Invasion of the Yellow Crazy Ants!
Ocean Confetti!
Microbes...ughhh...right?
Which of these is a bee?
How To Date A Planet
Poop Transplants!
Are any Animals Truly Monogamous?
Where Did Earth's Water Come From?
How do Trees Survive Winter?
How Your Dog Can Protect You Before You're Born
Birds that Hibernate in Lakes?!
What Happened To This Car?
How to Make a Seashell - Just Add Water!
Why is All Sand the Same?
How Our Honey is Made
What is Skin For?
Which Came First — the Rain or Rainforests?
The One That Got Away (Size Matters)
The Biggest Organism on Earth
How to Survive a Lightning Strike
Denizens of the Deep
Trash vs. Garbage
Garbage Doesn't Lie
The Hottest Place on Earth
The Great North American Locust Plague
Do Fetuses Poop?
How the little guy can compete against the big guy
Left vs Right
Our Atmosphere is Escaping!
400 Parts in a Million: The World's Biggest Experiment
What is Freezer Burn?
The Return of the Bedbugs: They Won't Go Away
The Surprising History of Frozen Food
Why Does Earth Have Deserts?
How Tall Can Mountains Be?
Why Are Leaves Green? Part 2
Why Are Leaves Green? Part 1
MinuteEarth: The Story of Our Planet
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