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The Field Museum

Owl with a small rodent in its beak. Raptor - A bird of prey such as an eagle, hawk, or owl that kills and eats other animals for food. Caption: Nocturnal raptors like owls eat many rodents
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Episode 37
8 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A photo of a bird. An inner line is drawn tracing the shape of the bird's circular head. The line extends along the beak.
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Episode 70
10 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Giant walking stick pinned to a board for display. Caption: This one's from Malaysia.
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Episode 10
5 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of the bottom side of a winged insect's body. Caption: All insects are roughly made up of the same sections --
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Episode 21
7 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Litchens are found on a rusty car door. Caption: What caught their attention was the abundance of lichens,
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Episode 62
1 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Snake slithering down a thin branch. Caption: looking for snakes and frogs and salamander
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Episode 29
5 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a small insect. Inset of a picture of the insect. Caption: Necrophila Americana
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Episode 13
9 minutes 49 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a grasshopper. Melanoplus Differentialis. Caption: And this is a differential grasshopper,
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Episode 14
11 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Close up of insects pinned to a board. They have green stripes down their backs. Caption: This is the largest collection at the museum.
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Episode 40
6 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Closeup of the front half of an ant. Camponotus nigriceps. Caption: They bore through wood, but don't eat it.
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Episode 54
7 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
The skull of the bottleneck dolphins is displayed on a table. Caption: Bottlenose dolphins have echolocation as well,
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Episode 65
10 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
People walking through a cave. Caption: And try and set your feet without dragging your shoes
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Episode 27
6 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Three people in a dark cave wearing headlamps. Caption: There are so many bats in here.
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Episode 28
9 minutes 9 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding a skeleton approximately the length of her thumb. Caption: …each of the limbs, and the scapula.
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Episode 7
5 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Green leafy foliage partially covering the ground. Caption: was this carpet of baby Kankakee mallows.
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Episode 38
7 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person speaking. Caption: Well, today we're gonna talk about mammalian diversification.
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Episode 6
3 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Large skeleton with tusks in a museum. Mastodons were around about 20 million years before mammoths. Caption: Mastodons were on Earth before mammoths,
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Episode 49
3 minutes 57 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
A tock is placed on a table. In a close up, Emily Graslie halds the rock in her hand. Caption: I'm gonna go with, this is not a meterorite.
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Episode 60
13 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
A man holds a transparent lid of a decorated container. Caption: That's actually quartz.
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Episode 68
13 minutes 52 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Sarcophagus covered in faded paint. Caption: a male from the 25th dynasty, about 2,700 years ago,
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Episode 30
7 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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