
Lloyd Buck and a puzzle-solving crow help viewers get “Inside Animal Minds.” | NOVA/PBS Pressroom
Inside Animal Minds PBS, 9 p.m. EDT April 9, 16 and 23
NOVA’s three-part “Inside Animal Minds” melds the latest research on animal cognition with in-the-field profiles of some amazing critters, such as a bird whose problem-solving skills are something to crow about.

Neil Shubin, author and host of Your Inner Fish, shows off a model and cast of Tiktaalik roseae, the 375-million year-old “fishapod.” | John Weinstein/The Field Museum of Natural History
Your Inner Fish
PBS, 10 p.m. EDT April 9, 16 and 23
Based on a popular book of the same name by paleontologist Neil Shubin, the three-part series Your Inner Fish traces our often unexpected evolutionary connections with other species, including reptiles and shrews.