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EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS Do you love fossils, adventure, and spending time in small spaces? If so, you could become an underground astronaut! Marina Elliot, Becca Peixotto, and Kenni Molopyane found this unusual job description through a Facebook ad, and landed deep inside a cave that few people can access. The team of archeologists talked to Tumble in the middle of excavating Homo Naledi, one of the biggest recent discoveries on the human family tree. Find out

EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS Join us for a journey through Tumble's favorite animal episodes! Swim with whale sharks in Mexico, climb mountains with pikas, travel back in time to discover our earliest primate relatives, and more. Download two hours of stories of animal science discovery, and you'll be all set to turn your road trip into an animal adventure. For a collection of episodes about astronomy, check out The Road Trip To Outer Space . We'll be back Januar

EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: K-ESS2-2, K-ESS3-1, 2-LS4-1, 3-LS4-3 Crosscutting Concept: Systems and System Models, Patterns, Cause and Effect We're going on an indoor expedition to discover the species in our own home! You’ll never look at the bugs in your house the same way again. Ecologist and author Rob Dunn is our guide to exploring what he calls, “the unknown we wake up in every morning.” We’ll find out how many species live in the average home (it’s more than y

EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS What’s it like to go inside the world’s largest bat colony? In this special bonus episode, we’re sharing part of our interview with Jessica Dreyer, modern day Bat Woman and biologist. (Remember her from “The Journey to the Bat Cave”?!) Find out why a cave just outside San Antonio, Texas is home to 15 million bats - the largest gathering of mammals anywhere on the planet! Want to get MORE behind-the-scenes of our stories of science disc

EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS 3-LS3-2 Crosscutting Concepts: Cause and Effect Not a true crime story, but a true science story! Starring a murder of crows, a person in a creepy mask, and one very curious scientist named Kaeli Swift. We unravel the mystery of what appears like scene from a Halloween fright night, but is actually an experiment designed to reveal the reasons for some very weird crow behavior. Turns out, you can get a lot of strange looks on the road to

EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS Join us on a field trip to the biggest bat colony in the world! Bracken Cave is home to 15 million Mexican free-tailed bats. It’s the largest concentration of mammals on the planet, and it’s made up of only mothers and their babies. On our visit, we’ll meet a real-life Batwoman. Jessica Dreyer is a bat biologist who is studying how bats learn to be bats. Now… TO THE BAT CAVE! In the episode, Jessica describes how she and Harry, her res

EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS In this episode, meet 11-year-old Sarah Galvani-Townsend! She’s our first ever kid science expert. In many ways, Sarah is a regular kid who loves science. But she’s got an unusual hobby. Sarah tells us why studying dogs and rabies is one of her favorite extracurricular activities, and how she translates “science language” into “kid language.” Science Journal for Kids adapts cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science research for students.

EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS ESS Photo by Johanna Varner. Pikas are our new favorite animal, and soon to be yours, if they’re not already. They look like chipmunks, but are actually in the rabbit family. Somehow Pikas are cuter than both of those animals combined. They live in mountainous areas in parts of Asia, Eastern Europe, and Western North America. Pikas are more than just a cute face, they are helping scientists study climate change. Johanna Varner , aka

EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS 4-LS1-1 Crosscutting Concept: Systems and System Models Sea stars are known for their tight grips. But what's their secret? Scientists have long suspected it has to do with their tube feet, which protrude along the undersides of sea stars arms. Depending on the species, sea stars can have thousands of tube feet. We traveled to the Birch Aquarium at Scripps in La Jolla, California to get an up-close look. How do you think tube feet wor

Who is the oldest primate, and is it our great-great-great grandfather? In this episode, we learn that our earliest ancestors didn't look like monkeys or apes. They were much, much tinier! EDUCATION RESOURCES: NGSS Standards: LS 3-LS4-1 Crosscutting Concepts: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity Here, anthropologist Chris Kirk poses with Rooneyia , a primate that lived 37 million years ago. Thanks to Chris' hairless head, you can get a good comparison of how much bigger a huma