Tales From the Cryptic Species - Shelf Life #16
What do crocodiles and leopards have in common? Century-old specimens of both are helping to decode the biodiversity of ecosystems that are under threat today. Researcher Evon Hekkala and Curator Joel Cracraft help unravel the mystery of cryptic species.
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Congo footage courtesy of WCS Congo / Zanne Labuschagne
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For Shelf Life’s Season 2, pack your bags for adventure. Explore fantastic stories from more than a century of expeditions that helped build the Museum’s 33 million specimens and artifacts—and find out what scientists are still uncovering about them today.
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Series Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2PmDLfWt1Q
Episode 1: 33 Million Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NR-xl7W0vo
Episode 2: Turtles and Taxonomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmXqn9AW2Kc
Episode 3: Six Ways to Prepare a Coelacanth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqL17uabbso
Episode 4: Skull of the Olinguito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEYfY0mRc5k
Episode 5: How To Time Travel To a Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xJqFtPGAA
Episode 6: The Tiniest Fossils
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLSa8cGJixQ
Episode 7: The Language Detectives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92IvcuQF9cg
Episode 8: Voyage of the Giant Squid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W47by1jPTPw
Episode 9: Kinsey’s Wasps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHc5l4gQsro
Episode 10: The Dinosaurs of Ghost Ranch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=567bv6xmuss
Episode 11: Green Grow the Salamanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9Z-pHr-nE
Episode 12: Six Extinctions In Six Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZuwOgcS1W0
360 Episode: Fossil Hunting in the Gobi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDdqd8c_-hY
Episode 13: Nothing But the Tooth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTyNGtadjq0
Episode 14: Into the Island of Bats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIYPKljj7cY
360 Episode: Shamans of Siberia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rInUt3rJ3AE
Episode 15: The Guts and Glory of Object Conservation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZuYhwozw9Y
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