✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • November 26, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
November 26th, 2025

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Editor's Note: Many U.S. schools are closed for Thanksgiving this week, so we'll resume posting new videos next week. News headlines will continue through the holiday. For now, enjoy some of our favorite content about turkeys. 🦃

In today's science news: A Portuguese tree-planting robot 🤖, why deadlines are like predator attacks 🦁, and why you can thank the dinosaurs for your Thanksgiving meal 🦖. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

Naturalist Joe Hutto makes sure newly-hatched turkey babies imprint onto or bond with him so that they’ll follow him, giving him the ability to teach them and keep them safe.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🤖 Portuguese teens built a tree-planting robot to reforest steep wildfire-damaged slopes • Smithsonian Magazine

🦖 Dinosaur extinction created dense rainforests where Thanksgiving foods like green beans and yams evolved • Popular Science

🐨 Researchers find koalas' closest extinct relative was a fierce lion-sized predator • Science News

🦁 Your body treats work deadlines and traffic jams like predator attacks • Science Alert

👅 Scientists are debating whether “fatty” should become the sixth basic taste • National Geographic

🧠 Your brain rewires itself at four key ages, peaking at around 32 • Popular Science

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