These flowers smell like rotten meat!

From MinuteEarth. Some flowers smell HORRIBLE to humans but amazing to other animals, like dung beetles! Different flowers attract different pollinators – and some of those pollinators are attracted by the smell of sweaty gym socks! Made with our STEM besties at @CBSUnstoppable

The Problem with Antivenom

From MinuteEarth. Discover who you are with MyHeritage. Get a 14-day free trial here: https://bit.ly/MinuteEarth2 Venomous snakes kill nearly 100,000 people a year. Which is weird, because we have a pretty effective treatment for venomous snake bites; it’s actually been around for more than a hundred years. So why are so many people still dying?…

When Evolution Glitches Out

From MinuteEarth. Learn how to help save birds in your community at https://birds.naturecanada.ca Animals are prone to falling for “evolutionary traps”: modern human-made stuff that accidentally tricks them into maladaptive behavior. LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: – Evolutionary trap: a situation where an organism, due…

Why The Frequency Illusion Is Everywhere Now

From MinuteEarth. Want to sponsor a MinuteEarth video? Email us at minuteearth@gmail.com This is a story about attention, memory, and headless goat hockey, which is a totally real sport played on horseback with a goat carcass standing in for a ball. It’s known by many names throughout central asia, but I first encountered it as…

The Difference between Pollen and Sperm

From MinuteEarth. Pollen is often described as ‘plant sperm’, but it has some important differences! Like sperm, pollen contains one DNA set from its parent, but unlike sperm, pollen itself is actually its own separate living plant made of multiple cells that, under the right conditions, can live for months, depending on the species.