Lindsay Nikole

Lindsay Nikole is an American zoologist, science communicator, TikToker, and YouTuber. Her online content focuses on topics such as zoology, prehistory, and evolutionary biology.

Zoology content career Nikole's career in zoology content creation was spurred by her obsession with lions, while she was a high school student. In her senior year, she volunteered at a big cat sanctuary in South Africa, further propelling her interest in animals.

Nikole later attended Oregon State University (OSU). In her third year at OSU, she interned at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia. Her videos focus on topics of prehistory and evolution. Nikole's career has also led her to travel to Kenya to work with the Save the Elephants organization.

After not posting her first YouTube video because it was "super boring", she waited a few months before attempting to make another. She reached out to fellow content creator Miniminuteman, whose editor in Argentina was looking for new clients, and the two began working together. VidCon's co-founder Hank Green has referenced Nikole as a content creator he admires, and in November 2024, Nikole appeared alongside Green in one of his Vlogbrothers videos. Nikole has also collaborated with paleontologist Danielle Dufault of Animalogic, as well as Panthera Cats, to produce a video about the evolutionary history of cats.

The growth of her channel led to her videos transitioning from a small DIY crew production, to being worked on by a team of six researchers and two science writers. Tattoos are a signature characteristic of Nikole's visual aesthetic and in 2025, she launched Extinked, a docuseries focusing on extinct animals which Nikole has tattoos of on her body. The book was based on her video series, The History of Life. She released a four-track EP in 2020.