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  • Spider with long narrow legs and a small narrow body at the center of a delicate spider web. Caption: Spiders are arachnids.

    This episode focuses on the adaptations of arachnids and insects. Spiders inhabit backyards that design and build intricate silk webs. They have also developed numerous adaptations that make them efficient predators. Backyards also have insects living above and below the water's surface. More amazing adaptations are introduced including incomplete metamorphosis, eye development, and remarkable breathing apparatus. Part of the "Backyard Bugs & Other Arthropods" series.

    (Source: DCMP)

  • Closeup of a mottled brown spider. Caption: arachnids and crustaceans, have a skeleton on the outside

    Part of a series that features a wide variety of video footage, photographs, diagrams, graphics, and labels. For this particular video, students will focus on the two functions of the skeleton: protection and support for the body. Part of the Science Video Vocab series.

    (Source: DCMP)

  • A spider in the center of a web with double helix DNA strands in the background. Caption: the relationship between changes in spider genomes

    How do spiders make their webs? Turns out it’s in their DNA. Spider expert and American Museum of Natural History curator Cheryl Y. Hayashi discusses her research into spider silk.

    (Source: DCMP)

  • A man with a pole collecting something off a large rock on the ground. Caption: He's collected scorpions in over two dozen countries

    Lorenzo Prendini spends his time looking for new species of scorpions and researching their ancestries. He also studies how venomous species might benefit the medical community. Josh Landis and Mitch Butler follow Lorenzo out into the field to study scorpions and talk with him about his experiences through this research. Part of the Fast Draw Series.

    (Source: DCMP)