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Shelf Life Video: Into the Island of Bats

May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 Science Connectedbats, conservation, ecology, shelf life

The island of Cuba is a key piece of the puzzle for two researchers who are studying bats and trying to understand biodiversity in the Caribbean. Find out why on an expedition with mammalogists J. Angelo Soto-Centeno and Gilberto Silva Taboada, joined by Ana Luz Porzecanski, director of the Museum’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. Shelf Life videos are shared by agreement with the American Museum of Natural History. GotScience Magazine kindly reminds you to not touch wild bats. Learn more about bat-human virus transmission. “We have evidence at a…

Animals Biology Paleontology Videos

Six Extinctions in Six Minutes: Shelf Life Video

February 17, 2016February 13, 2016 Science Connectedamerican museum of natural history, animals, natural history, science video, shelf life

Six (Mass) Extinctions in 440 Million Years All things must pass. But the idea that a species could go extinct is a relatively new one, first proposed by anatomist Georges Cuvier in a presentation in Paris in 1796 in a lecture on the extinction of the mastodon, then thought by some to still be roaming the ill-explored western reaches of North America. –American Museum of Natural History Shelf Life is a collection of videos for curious minds—opening doors, pulling out drawers, and taking the lids off some of…

Biology Videos

Green Grow the Salamanders: Shelf Life Video

February 10, 2016February 4, 2016 Science ConnectedAMNH, free science video, science videos, shelf life

Many people visit the American Museum of Natural History to view the preserved specimens of dinosaurs and extinct animals, but the Museum also has a collection of about 80 live cultures of microorganisms, including algae. Here is what the Museum has to say about episode 11, “Green Grow the Salamanders,” of their popular Shelf Life series:: This episode of Shelf Life looks at how Museum researchers are currently studying the surprising role single-celled algae play in the life of the spotted salamander—and comes on the heels of the opening of…

Animals Biology Videos

Skull of the Olinguito: Shelf Life Episode 4

April 15, 2015April 15, 2015 Science ConnectedAMNH, biology, evolution, fossils, mammals, nature, shelf life, species, video

The Skull of the Olinguito This video, fourth in the Shelf Life series, reveals how scientists in the field found the skull of a new species and identified it as the elusive olinguito. Thousands of new animal species are discovered every year, some living and some extinct. Researchers regularly make expeditions to the far-flung corners of the globe in search of new species, ranging from the single-celled organisms found in pools of volcanic sulfur (or even in your own stomach), to deep-sea organisms and larger animals like monkeys and birds.…

Coelacanth, Shelf Life Episode 3, American Museum of Natural History Video

Animals Biology Videos

Fishing for Facts: Studying the Rare Coelacanth

April 8, 2015September 4, 2015 Science ConnectedAMNH, collections, EH Science, evolution, fish, marine biology, ocean, sea, shelf life, taxonomy

Meet the Coelacanth Coelacanths (see-la-kanths) are large, ancient fish with arm-like fins and armor-like scales. They can be found in the fossil record through the time of the dinosaurs, but disappear about 70 million years ago. Everyone thought the creature was extinct. Then, in 1938, the coelacanth splashed into the modern world when one was caught in a fishing net off the coast of South Africa. The prehistoric specimen pulled from the fishing net was discovered by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, the curator of the East London Museum, located in South Africa.…