Which mammals have no teeth?
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- September 21, 2012
Try sticking out your tongue as far as it can go. Can you touch your chin with it? How about your nose? Some people can! Can you touch your ears with it? An anteater could clean its ears with its tongue. But there is one mammal who has an even longer tongue than that! The
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 saw a smaller fish inside the mouth of a large fish with sharp teeth, what would you expect to happen? You might think that the small fish is one gulp away from becoming dinner, and in most cases that’s exactly what would happen. But there are a few lucky types of fish who
READ MOREImagine scuba diving through a tropical reef late at night. You are drifting past the dark corals when suddenly two lights turn around a corner and head straight for you! They look exactly like the headlights on a car, but they actually belong to a flashlight fish! Flashlight fish spend most of their time in
READ MOREThe Christian Bible tells a story in which Jesus walks across the surface of a lake. So when people observed a tiny lizard called a basilisk running across water, it earned itself the nickname “Jesus Lizard”. But there’s nothing divine about a basilisk’s ability to run across the water. The trick is all in the
READ MOREPachycephalosaurs were very strange dinosaurs. The name “pachycephalosaur” actually means “thick headed lizard”, and scientists have argued for decades about what use their knobbly, bony skulls might have had. The most popular theory, based on the thickness of their skulls and the tiny size of the brains within, is that they used the skulls for
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