How do snakes get around with no feet?
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- May 21, 2015
Have you ever gone to get a piece of bread and found it covered with blue mold? That bread might actually be covered in medicine! When we get sick, it’s because our body has been invaded by tiny living things called microbes. Most of these are harmless, but some can make you very sick. Viruses
READ MOREThe human body is made up of tiny building blocks called cells. Each part of your body is made up of cells that do a certain job: hair is made of hair cells, blood is made of blood cells, muscles are made of muscle cells. They’re also really tiny: you could fit about 40 of
READ MOREYou can find all kinds of wonderful and strange animals in Australia, but some of the most famous Australian animals are the marsupials, or pouched mammals. These include the kangaroo, wombat, koala, possum, and wallaby. Marsupials are mammals, just like humans, but with one big difference: in humans and other mammals, a baby grows inside
READ MOREOysters are amazing creatures. They have played an important role in nature since they first arrived on the planet, as natural cleaners. A bed of oysters can filter pollution out of water and make it clean again. But humans have found other uses for them as well. For thousands of years, humas have harvested oysters
READ MOREOne of the most fragile and beautiful fish in the ocean is the tiny seahorse. Seahorses are remarkable animals, in more ways than one. But one of the most amazing things about them is that seahorses can dance! Seahorses mate for life. When a seahorse finds the mate, the two seahorses begin a complicated series
READ MOREImagine that you don’t have any arms, legs, eyelids, or ears. Now imagine that your entire body is covered in fingernails. Then imagine that you don’t just smell things, you taste them too. That’s what life is like for a snake. Snakes rely mainly on their sense of smell to help them find food, but
READ MOREThe ability to sense and generate electricity sounds like the superpower of a comic book hero, but it’s actually a useful ability that some aquatic animals use to hunt their prey! All living things generate a weak electrical field; your heart is beating now because tiny electrical signals are telling all the parts of your
READ MOREIf you’ve ever tried to make your way through a room at night with the lights off, you know how frustrating it can be to try to find your way through a place you can’t see. Imagine what it’s like for animals that come out at night, or that spend their lives in dark, murky
READ MOREMost of the time, animals are the ones that eat plants. But in some rare cases, the plants are the ones doing the eating. Probably the most famous of the meat-eating plants is the Venus flytrap. It works a little bit like a mousetrap: at rest, the flytrap rests in an open position, with tiny
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