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Learn Through Videos: Biology

This is a collection of links to educational videos related to biology, health and medicine, which are made for a general audience. How did life begin? How can we explain the diversity of life on Earth? How did Darwin develop his theory of evolution? How does the human body work? How could we come to be to the way we are today? Can we live forever? From the origins of life on Earth to the human genome, there are so many questions in life sciences that have haunted us. The videos listed in this collection cover various interesting topics in biology, health and medicine: the origins of life on Earth, evolution by natural selection, wildlife and their habitats, the DNA theory of inheritance, human body, and biotechnology.

David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities
This is a documentary series featuring some of nature's evolutionary anomalies and how these curious animals continue to baffle and fascinate.

Life
This is a BBC nature documentary series, taking a global view of the specialized strategies and extreme behavior that living things have developed in order to survive.

David Attenborough's Rise of Animals
This is a two-hour BBC documentary presented by David Attenborough, giving an overview of the evolution of the vertebrates.

The Nature of Sex
This is a PBS documentary series explaining how a diversity of life forms find their mates and conceive, raise, and protect their offspring.

The Trials of Life
This is a nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, dealing with animal behavior.

Ingenious Animals
This is a four-part BBC nature documentary series, looking at various aspects of animals and how they relate to each other and the environment.

The Shape of Things
This film takes you on a unique journey of discovery to find out why things are shaped the way they are and why they work so well.

Kings of Camouflage
Cuttlefish, although color-blind, are able to change the color of their skin. The chromatophores are elastic sacs containing different pigments.

The Living Planet
This is a nature documentary series about a study of the ways in which living organisms, including humans, adapt to their surroundings.

Secrets of Our Living Planet
This is a four-part BBC documentary series presented by Chris Packham, showcasing the incredible ecosystems that make life on Earth possible.

Planet Earth
This is a BBC nature documentary series, looking at a global overview of different habitats on Earth.

Lost Worlds: Vanished Lives
This is a four-part BBC documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, about the discovery of fossils.

The Permian Mass Extinction
This is a collection of web documents, films and lectures that help us better-understand about the Permian-Triassic extinction event, the Great Dying, 250 million years ago.

Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) Extinction
This is a collection of web documents, documentaries and lectures that can help us better-understand about the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) Extinction event, 65 million years ago.

Earth Story
This documentary consists of eight episodes telling the story of our planet and its constantly changing nature.