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Map centered on the island of Borneo. Caption: I was the only one working on an area near Borneo,
The Brain Scoop
Episode 45
10 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A pencil sketch of a fish with wing like fins, and a tail. On screen text, Jenny Hanivers. Caption: and became known as Jenny Hannivers,
The Brain Scoop
Episode 69
1 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Partially dissected body of an ant. Crop, ileum, rectum, mid gut, venom gland. Caption: Alongside that is where the venom gland sits.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 31
6 minutes 26 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photos of a Native American woman and man wearing medals around their necks. Caption. Like currency used to purchase loyalty.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 52
10 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Black and white photo of a man standing in profile. He looks down at a notecard held in his hand. Title card reads, "Carl Cotton, A Natural Talent."
The Brain Scoop
Episode 73
9 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person gesturing above an open book. The book has a broken spine and faded, handwritten text. Caption: So we catalogue the most primitive first
The Brain Scoop
Episode 5
7 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Small stingray with dye coloring parts of the internal structure. Caption: and use different stains to stain parts of the skeleton.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 34
6 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person in a lab setting holding the body of a bird. Bird prep. Caption: about changes in species over time.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 17
5 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person standing next to a platform with two taxidermized elephants. Caption: (Emily Graslie) Carl and Delia Akeley's Fighting African Elephants
The Brain Scoop
Episode 56
6 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: To de-extinct a species requires finding viable DNA,
The Brain Scoop
Episode 3
3 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: that's a lot of species -- which ones do we bring back?
The Brain Scoop
Episode 4
3 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a silvery rock with geometric chunks on top and white and silver crystalline structures on the bottom. Caption: So this one looks like pyrite, but it's called arsenopyrite.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 50
9 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Skull of a dimetrodon and a human side by side. The temporal opening on both skulls is highlighted. Caption: allowing for improved chewing and biting capabilities.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 20
6 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A person holding a handful of mollusks that are tagged with unique ids. Caption: That's good for the future of that species
The Brain Scoop
Episode 42
8 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Host Emily talks to Lance Grande at the Fossil Lake in Wyoming. Caption: One of the longest-lived lake systems we know of
The Brain Scoop
Episode 22
6 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two people sitting side by side at a table working on something under a bright light. Caption: Then you scrape the matrix from the fossils.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 26
5 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person holding a fossil of a spiral shaped animal. Caption: Hildoceras bifrons is an extinct species of ammonite
The Brain Scoop
Episode 53
5 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a giant shark dwarfing the whales it swims with and is about to bite into one. Caption: megalodon was maybe 50 feet, or 15 meters, in length.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 23
3 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A diagram titled, ghost lineage, shows cars of different ages.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 72
12 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person sitting in the bow of a canoe that is butted up against a riverbank. Dr. Lesley De Souza. Caption: She's a conversation scientist and ichthyologist.
The Brain Scoop
Episode 59
6 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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