Movies: Biology

Explore an extraordinary region where water and land life intermingle six months out of the year....

As new parents can attest, children develop so much in the first year of their life it's hard to keep up. From the moment they draw their initial breath - itself an incredibly complicated biological feat - to their first steps, it's a year of remarka...

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An animated account of an organism adapting to its environment....

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Short film about the movement patterns of protozoa...

An animated view of the human body as an industrial manufacturing center....

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Short film by Frantisek Skapa....

The Body Machine is a landmark special on the human body that shows us just how much, how many, how large, how strong, how fast - just how amazing the body really is. Utilizing impressive large-scale real-life stunts, CGI and strong character stories...

At only twelve inches long, the menhaden are a keystone species in the East Coast's marine ecosystem, yet their numbers are threatened by industrial-scale fishing operations in the Chesapeake Bay....

On display are the movement structures of Heliozoa, the expulsion of food remains, plasmogamy, separation and temporary bridging, "phobia"....

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Explains through animation the process of photosynthesis, and discusses its importance to our daily lives....

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