Biology resources for teachers

Here I demonstrate how co-evolution speeds up the evolution of new protein complexes. I do this using Play-doh!

🌘🌕🌒 Moon jellies are more than pretty faceless beauties—they play an irreplaceable role in the ocean food web. Healthy jelly populations sustain beloved endangered species like the Pacific leatherback sea turtle.

The flu is often dismissed as just a bad cold, yet it still kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. Here's how influenza damages your body, why it can become deadly, and what it would take to save many more lives.

In 1885, Joseph Meister was bit in 14 places by a rabid dog. His mother rushed him to Paris for an experimental vaccine from Louis Pasteur, and he became the first rabies-vaccinated person to survive. Today, without proper intervention, rabies remains deadly in almost all cases. So, what makes it so dangerous to humans? Charles Rupprecht explores what makes this infectious disease so lethal.wska.

Proof that evolution has a sense of humor: whales used to walk, and their closest living relative isn’t even an ocean animal.

Forged by bitter experience, Brazil has embraced new techniques to combat mosquitoes. Our reporter, Apoorva Mandavilli, goes inside a mosquito factory in the country, where scientists are producing millions of mosquitoes to fight deadly tropical diseases in a warming world.

In this video we explore the physics of protein evolution and the bacterial flagella using... Play-Doh? Yep. It sounds childish but it is surprisingly enlightening!

After watching this video you'll understand why evolution keeps generating protein complexes that are perfect, rods, rings, and tubes. These are among the easiest structure for evolution to generate at the level of protein complexes.

The ape family is a hugely diverse group of gibbons, gorillas, orangutans, chimps, and - yes - humans. MinuteEarth explains who they are and how they’re related.

Tarantula's hunt by sensing vibrations in the ground, waiting to pounce on passing prey...

Explore the incredible wildlife of Japan and China, where ancient forests, towering mountains, rugged coastlines and bamboo forests provide the backdrop for extraordinary animal behaviour and inspiring stories of survival, adaptation and coexistence.

National Geographic explorer and wildlife filmmaker, Bertie Gregory, travels to South America for his most audacious mission yet: filming great white sharks without a protective cage as they hunt in the shallows. While filming the massive apex predators, Bertie learns about their challenges in the face of climate change, and the changes to oceans around the globe.

Paid content for @jeepuk. Hit the open road with a wildlife photographer Charlie Hamilton James and his son as they head into the countryside for a weekend of adventure, discovery, and photography lessons. From getting the perfect shot of magnificent red kites in flight to exploring in the Jeep Compass, their journey becomes about more than the extraordinary photos they capture. The memories created and time spent together are the ultimate reward.

Why are shark attacks on the rise, and what can be done to help sharks and humans peacefully coexist? In this Investigation Shark Attack livestream from National Geographic, the team travels around the globe to research shark behavior and shark attacks. From California to the Bahamas to Florida, these shark experts seek ways to make the planet's oceans safer for both humans and sharks alike.

The greatest discovery every made was accident

Bees use the waggle dance to tell other bees about the location and quality of flower patches. A starred review - for bees.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began sharing on social media that she is going to try to preserve her fertility by freezing her eggs, a subject that Lesley Stahl reported on in 2025. Stahl found that the costly procedure brought happy endings to some women, but offered no guarantees.

"60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10.

Under the ice in Antarctica is a world few people ever get to see. Bizarre creatures—ancient sponges, gigantic jellyfish, sea spiders, ribbon worms, and notothenioid fishes that manage not to freeze—make their home here.

A beloved Southern California eagle's passing broke the hearts of fans who had been watching her through a camera for over a decade. But new images inspire hope. Joy Benedict has the story.

South Korea’s trap-neuter-release policy for stray cats has been in place for over 20 years, but populations keep rising. Conservationists call for culling to protect wildlife, while animal welfare groups oppose it. The issue is now headed to parliament.

Most of our antibiotics are originally made by micro-organisms. But the more we look, the more we keep finding the same things.

While one wolf pack must work together to bring down a hare which can reach speeds of up to 60 km/h, another wolf pack targets an elk, testing whether they can outmanoeuvre their weakened prey.

Witness the remarkable world of ocean giants, from their clever hunting strategies to their unique behaviours and extraordinary connections.

Steve Brusatte has the dirt on dinosaurs and joins Hakeem to trace the full 100-million-year history of the tyrannosaur dynasty, the asteroid that ended it, and the remarkable truth that dinosaurs never actually disappeared. One small lineage survived to become every bird alive today, and Steve walks through the long and contested scientific history of how we came to understand that connection. He also shares what it was like to serve as the official paleontology consultant on the Jurassic World films, and how to find the balance between science and cinema.

Legendary director, Steven Spielberg, shares his exclusive story behind the making of the iconic film, JAWS (1975), now considered the first modern blockbuster. Featuring interviews with Cameron Crowe, James Cameron, J.J. Abrams, Jordan Peele, Guillermo del Toro, Emily Blunt, and many more, this film delves into the creation and impact of the shark film over the course of the 50 years since it first premiered.

In this Sharkfest MEGA episode special, National Geographic investigates the lives and unique behaviors of the ocean's top apex predator, sharks. Experts go around the globe to study why sharks are drawn to Hawaii's volcanoes, why there are rising reports of bull shark attacks in Australia, and why great white sharks are swimming so far north, resulting in the first suspected white shark attack in Canada in over 150 years. This mega episode features three, full episodes: