Category: biology

How Bad Was The Great Oxidation Event?

Researched and Written by Leila Battison Narrated and Edited by David Kelly Art by Khail Kupsky Thumbnail Art and Art by Ettore Mazza If you like our videos, check out Leila’s youtube channel:    / @somethingincredible   Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist. References: http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/2015…https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…https://science.sciencemag.org/conten…https://sci-hub.do/10.1126/science.16…   • That Time Oxygen Almost Killed Everything  https://www.michigan.gov/documents/de…https://courses.lumenlearning.com/bou…https://sci-hub.do/10.2475/ajs.s4-23….https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar…https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=H…https://www.researchgate.net/publicat…https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelve…https://www.researchgate.net/publicat…https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c… Image Credits (in order of appearance): Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc., CC BY-SA… Continue reading How Bad Was The Great Oxidation Event?

The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies

To capture a butterfly’s point of view, camera operators used a helicopter, ultralight, and hot-air balloon for aerial views along the butterflies’ transcontinental route. (Learn more about the production techniques and adventure of traveling with the monarchs in an interview with Director Nick de Pencier.) The film opens with caterpillars munching milkweed in southern Canada… Continue reading The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies

Slime Moulds | In Our Time

BBC Radio 4 – Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss slime mould, a basic organism that grows on logs, cowpats and compost heaps. Scientists have found difficult to categorise slime mould: in 1868, the biologist Thomas Huxley asked: ‘Is this a plant, or is it an animal? Is it both or is it neither?’ and there… Continue reading Slime Moulds | In Our Time