Tag: PBS NOVA
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PBS Eons: We’re The Only Ones With Chins – And We Don’t Know Why
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about chins and how/why it fits into human evolution. Check out the first episode of Human: https://to.pbs.org/HumanNOVA You share a trait with every single human who’s ever lived – but no other animal on Earth has it. It’s not your big brain, or your opposable thumbs……
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PBS NOVA – Great Mammoth Mystery
PBS NOVA just published the “Great Mammoth Mystery” on Youtube. Sir David Attenborough investigates a unique site in southern England where amateur fossil hunters uncovered giant mammoth bones and evidence of Neanderthals. A team of paleontologists and archaeologists soon discover that the site preserves rare evidence of the extinct beasts and early human inhabitants of…
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When Whales Could Walk | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
PBS Nova has posted the full documentary "When Whales Could Walk" on Youtube. Whales had legs… What?!? In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls and gigantic teeth jut out from the sandy ground. This fossil graveyard, millions of years old, is known as the “Valley of the Whales.” Now, paleontologists have unearthed a…
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PBS NOVA: The Day the Dinosaurs Died
PBS Nova has full video of the “The Day the Dinosaurs Died” episode on their website. It originally aired back in December 2017 and is a good one! 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid collided with Earth, triggering a chain of events that coincide with the end of the dinosaurs. But experts have long…
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NOVA: Day the Dinosaurs Died
PBS NOVA has a program on the “Day the Dinosaurs Died”. The full episode is available for viewing on the PBS website! Program DescriptionA seven-mile-wide asteroid collided with Earth 66 million years ago, triggering a chain of events that coincide with the end of the dinosaurs. But experts have long debated exactly what happened when…
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PBS NOVA: Making North America
If you’ve got some time this holiday season. Check out Nova’s three part series “Making North America”. It’s hosted by Kirk Johnson, who’s the head of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Making North America: Origins Making North America: Life Making North America: Human All are available are online as full episodes, ready to…
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PBS NOVA: Treasures of the Earth: Gems
Last weeks NOVA was entitled “Treasures of the Earth: Gems”. Check it out. Their beauty has captivated us for millennia. Their cost can be extraordinary–some are even considered priceless. Precious gems like diamonds, rubies, emeralds, opal, and jade are the ultimate treasures of the earth, and each one is made from a specific–and often torturous–recipe of…
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Next on NOVA: “Himalayan Megaquake” January 27, 2016 at 9 PM
The next episode of PBS’s Nova is “Himalayan Megaquake”. It starts airing on January 27, 2016 at 9 PM on PBS. There’s a preview on the web and like their other shows, full episodes should be available online. Enjoy! Program Description: Dramatic eyewitness footage reveals the shocking quake that rocked Nepal in April 2015. Join…
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Next on NOVA: “Mystery Beneath the Ice” January 20, 2016 at 9 PM
The next episode of PBS’s Nova is “Mystery Beneath the Ice”. It starts airing on January 20, 2016 at 9 PM on PBS. There’s a preview on the web and like their other shows, full episodes should be available online. Enjoy! Program Description: Tiny, transparent, and threatened, krill are crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem and,…
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PBS NOVA: “Life’s Rocky Start”
The next episode of PBS’s Nova is “Life’s Rocky Start”. It starts airing on January 13, 2016 at 9 PM on PBS. There’s a preview on the web and like their other shows, full episodes should be available online. Sounds like a good one, enjoy! Program Description: Four and a half billion years ago, the…
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PBS NOVA: Bigger Than T-Rex… Spinosaurus
The Spinosaurus NOVA documentary is over on YouTube. Check it out if you missed it last fall on PBS. There are discussions on the new fossil find in Egypt and the aquatic nature of Spinosaurus, which appeared in an article in the National Geographic Magazine back in September 2014. Enjoy!
