Dr. Carlos Jaramillo of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute shares the incredible story of the Titanoboa, a colossal snake that lived 60 million years ago. He explains how its fossils were discovered and what these findings reveal about the world just after the dinosaurs went ...
El Dr. Carlos Jaramillo, del Instituto Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales, comparte la increíble historia de la Titanoboa, una serpiente colosal que vivió hace 60 millones de años. Explica cómo se descubrieron sus fósiles y qué nos revelan estos hallazgos sobre el mundo justo después de ...
PBS Nature se une este mes a Cumbre Kids, productores de los pódcasts infantiles “Cráneo: Ciencia para niños curiosos”, “Camaleón: Animales para niños curiosos” y “Orbit: Science for kids on the move”. Cada episodio presenta a científicos de instituciones de renombre —como el Smithsonian, el ...
Light pollution confuses and disorients seabirds around the globe, luring them towards land — and potentially dangerous situations. In the Westman Islands off the southwest coast of Iceland, however, one community has banded together to save lost young puffins. Every spring, hundreds of thousands of ...
60 million American bison, commonly known as buffalo, once thundered across the prairies of North America — until 1889, when they were almost driven to extinction. These mighty giants terraformed the land, diversified prairie ecosystems, and sustained many native tribes across the continent. Now, tribes ...
Sea otters are back, and their return is a breath of fresh air for the waters of Monterey Bay. Marine ecologists Brent Hughes and Kat Beheshti reveal how re-planting seagrass, along with help from a healthy population of crab-eating otters, have transformed and stabilized an ...
There’s no lizard like a chameleon—color-shifting, tree-climbing, eye-swiveling magic. Dive into the jungles of Madagascar with us and meet the first Malagasy herpetologist to lead groundbreaking genetic research on chameleons.
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