How do snakes get around with no feet?
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- May 21, 2015
Quick – put your hand over your heart! Did you put your hand on the left side of your chest? Most people do, but your heart is actually right in the middle. It just tips to the left so that part of it taps against the left side of your chest when it beats. If
READ MOREWhen you learn about dinosaurs in school, most books will teach you that all the dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. This means that there are no dinosaurs left on the planet. But how do we know if that’s really true? For years, scientists thought that it was. But recently, some very special dinosaur
READ MOREMost flower stems are smooth and narrow, providing a long, straight path for the leaves and flowers it bears. But sometimes, if you walk through a field of goldenrod, you find something different. Some goldenrod stems have large balls on them, a little like the knob on a sceptre. That knob, or gall, is actually
READ MOREEveryone knows that birds sing to each other. It’s hard to go outside in the morning without hearing the songs of birds calling back and forth. But did you know that birds aren’t the only ones who sing to each other? In the mammal family, we knew that humans and whales could sing to each
READ MOREHave you ever seen cows having lunch in a field? They may be enjoying their tasty grass, but if you tried to join them, you’d probably feel sick afterward. Most grasses are too tough for your stomach to digest properly. So how can cows get away with it? They have 4 stomachs! Well, not quite.
READ MOREHave you ever wondered why the things on your shelves get dusty even if your windows stay closed? That’s because a lot of dust comes from you! Dust is a mixture of many different things, but one of the main ingredients in dust is human skin cells. Our skin is really important — it keeps
READ MOREIf you’ve ever watched flamingoes wading in a stream, you might have noticed that they spend a lot of time with their heads in the water. That’s because flamingoes actually eat upside down! If you look at most birds, they have a large upper beak that’s fixed in place, and a smaller lower beak that
READ MOREHave you ever wondered why frogs spend so much time in the water? It all has to do with their super skins! Frogs have lungs, and they breathe air just like we do. But their skin is so thin that they can breathe through it as well! Frogs also don’t need to drink water like
READ MOREFor many years, people have wondered what causes people to be left-handed. Several bizarre theories have come and gone over the centuries, from the medieval notion that left-handed people were posessed by demons to more modern day theories that a left-handed person is one-half of a set of twins, and the second twin was reabsorbed
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