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Which animal tastes with its feet?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- July 6, 2012
When a butterfly is ready to lay eggs, it has to lay them on a leaf that will eventually become food for the caterpillars when they hatch. But how does a butterfly know whether or not that plant is safe for its babies to eat? It knows from the moment it lands on the leaf,
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Which animal uses a refrigerator?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- May 21, 2015
In the boreal forests of Canada lives a mischevious little bird. The gray jay is a member of the crow family, and like the other members of its family, it is quite clever. Gray jays learned quickly that human logging camps and canoeists’ campsites often have tasty things to eat, and are quite willing to
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Which animal’s fur grows backwards?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- December 28, 2012
There is plenty of competition for the title of “world’s fastest animal”, but have you ever wondered which animal is the slowest? To find it, you have to visit a rainforest and look way up into the canopy. The slowest animal in the world is a sloth! Sloths spend most of their time hanging upside
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Which arthropod is the biggest?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- August 31, 2012
Animals like insects, spiders, crabs, shrimp, and centipedes all belong to a group of animals called arthropods. The name “arthropod” means “jointed foot”, and all arthropods get around on jointed legs. They also have a hard outside called an exoskeleton. It’s like they have skeletons on the outside of their bodies! There are more arthropods
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Which bird is missing its wings?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- November 2, 2012
Because kiwis don’t fly, they can put a lot more energy into producing eggs If you ask someone to describe a bird, one of the first things people think of is “birds have wings”. But that’s not true: just look at the kiwis! Kiwis are native to New Zealand, and are the smallest of the
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Which dinosaur is named after Harry Potter’s school?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- December 6, 2013
Pachycephalosaurs 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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Which dinosaurs were the biggest?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- May 21, 2015
Everyone knows that dinosaurs were big, but how big were they? Most people think that the biggest of the lot were Tyrannosaurus Rex and Brachiosaurus, but they lost their biggest dinosaur titles years ago. The biggest dinosaurs that we know of so far actually come from Argentina! Palaeontologists are scientists who study dinosaurs, and the
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Which fish looks like a car driving at night?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- December 20, 2013
Imagine 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
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Which fish runs its own “car wash”?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- December 27, 2013
If 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
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