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This film explores the evolutionary connection between an infectious disease, malaria, and a genetic condition, sickle cell disease.

This video shows how a group of students, scientists, and volunteers came together to make hand sanitizer and masks for their community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This video describes how indigenous communities from the tropical rainforest of Darién, Panama, use drones to map their lands. The communities use these maps to protect their territories from outside incursions and to design sustainable land-use plans.

This video describes a large-scale project to restore the wildlife of Gorongosa National Park. The video highlights the project’s approach of combining traditional conservation biology with solutions for addressing challenges in the community.

This film tells the story of the ecologists who first documented the role of keystone species in ecosystem regulation.

This animated short video illustrates the life and work of paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, including her discovery of the Laetoli footprints.

This film explores what human hands, vision, and brains reveal about our evolution from ancient primate ancestors.

This film explores the hypothesis that different tones of skin color in humans arose as adaptations to the intensity of ultraviolet radiation in different parts of the world.

This video describes how stone tools reveal a critical transition in the lives of our early human ancestors.

This film explores the major fossil finds from Africa that provide insights about the evolution of humans from other primates.

This film is set in war-torn Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, a protected area that has been the subject of a large-scale restoration project. The film tells the story of a young man from the local community who discovers a passion for science after meeting world-renowned biologist E.O. Wilson.

This film describes the discovery of Tiktaalik, a key fossil that illuminates the evolutionary origins of four-legged animals.