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Coral reef with fish swimming in the vivid blue water above and two snorkelers at the water's surface. Caption: it has a lot of fish, it has less algae,
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Episode 2
8 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Body of water with plants floating on the surface near the shore, trees right up to the water's edge in the background. Spanish Captions.
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Episode 5
9 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Black frog with yellow stripes that is approximately twice as long as the tip of a pencil (pencil included for size comparison). Caption: this tiny little Eleutherodactylus frog.
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Episode 1
9 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Person sitting in front of a bookcase with books on various scientific subject. Caption: Microbes come in a huge variety of shapes--
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Episode 3
4 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Archaeologist David Hurt Thomas, a man with short gray hair and a white goatee, talks in front of a large bookshelf and a globe. Caption. "A relative or a leader."
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Episode 4
9 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
The skull of an animal with long, sharp teeth. Caption: And those teeth are incredibly strong.
3 minutes 54 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
A spider in the center of a web with double helix DNA strands in the background. Caption: the relationship between changes in spider genomes
2 minutes 39 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person in shadow against a backdrop of open expanse of ocean and sky. Caption: The new adversity they're having to deal with is climate change.
5 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
People in an open-air enclosure standing around a table with paper and other objects on the surface. Caption: is that I am surrounded by really curious people,
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Episode 2
3 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
People in an open-air enclosure standing around a table with paper and other objects on the surface. Spanish captions.
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Episode 3
3 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Gray-bearded man parts his lips as he speaks as a subject expert in a room lined with bookshelves. Caption. That's what archaeologists do.
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Episode 1
4 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
An illustration of African penguins with the outline of Africa in the background. Caption: is undergoing a rapid and alarming decline. On screen text: Biodiversity news, Scientists save penguin chicks. African Penguin, Spheniscus demersus.
2 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Fossilized dinosaur skeleton still partially encased in rock displayed next to a model of the same dinosaur. Caption: Out of those, only a few are really prepared well.
Shelf Life
Season 1 / Ep 10
6 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Two toads, one light brown, the other darker brown with light spots. Caption: Maybe temperatures got too warm for these toads.
Shelf Life
Season 1 / Ep 12
8 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Congo expedition of the American Museum of Natural History May 1909 to November 1915. Black and white photos of explorers with crocodile skulls and a map in the background. Caption: Those explorers had collected crocodile specimens
Shelf Life
Season 2 / Ep 16
5 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Person holding the fossilized skull of an animal. Caption: but there's still a liveliness and a connection
Shelf Life
Season 1 / Ep 2
4 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Three turtles, one with a tag around its neck. Caption: The turtles are all here together.
Shelf Life
Season 1 / Ep 2
3 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Irregular pinkish-brown shapes on a white background. Caption: you can actually really see that very fine cellular detail.
Shelf Life
Season 1 / Ep 3
6 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Four observatory telescopes pointed towards a starry sky. Caption: We have one record of the universe streaming by us.
Shelf Life
Season 1 / Ep 5
6 minutes 33 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Illustration of a person standing on the shoreline next to a squid with a body larger than the person is tall. Caption: had just found a giant squid, and would I be interested?
Shelf Life
Season 1 / Ep 8
6 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 10 - 12
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