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What animals are great interior decorators?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- November 15, 2013
If you walk through a forest in Australia or New Guinea, you might stumble across a remarkable sight: a tiny home, built of sticks and thatch, and filled with piles of carefully arranged, bright treasures. It’s not the home of an elf or a magical creature, it’s actually the home of a very special bird!
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What animals have a skeleton but no bones?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- May 24, 2013
If someone asked you what your skeleton was made of, you wouldn’t take long to answer “bones!” Our skeleton, which is made of many bones fitted together, helps support our bodies and let us move around. But there are a few animals who have a complete skeleton without having a single bone in their bodies!
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What are the biggest cave-dwelling animals?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- August 24, 2013
If someone asked you to name the biggest animal that lives in caves, what would you say? A large bat? A sleeping bear? Not even close! The largest cave-dwelling animals are the Kitum Cave elephants of Mount Elgon in Kenya! The elephants live around the slopes of Mount Elgon, an extinct volcano in Kenya. Unlike
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What colour is a polar bear?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- July 13, 2012
If asked what colour a polar bear is, most people would say “white”, but there’s actually no white on a polar bear at all! If you look beneath their thick fur, a polar bear’s skin is black. This is useful because dark colours absorb heat very well, so the polar bear’s black skin can absorb
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What colour is the sky?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- April 12, 2013
If somebody asked you to tell them what colour the sky is, you’d probably say blue. Most people do. But is the sky really blue? If the sky was blue, it should stay blue all the time, but the sky turns different colours at sunrise and sunset. So what colour is the sky? It’s actually
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What does “eagle-eyed” really mean?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- November 8, 2013
If you’ve ever been to the top of a very tall building, you might have looked down at the tiny people below and wondered who they might be. But if an eagle looked down at those same people, it would be able to see their faces! Eagles have incredible eyesight. Part of what makes an
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What is the fastest animal?0
- Curious questions, Life Science
- May 21, 2015
The has big nostrils to let it take in lots of air, and a big heart to pump blood fast when it’s running. And unlike most big cats, it can’t roar – but it is the biggest cat that can purr! But there is an animal that can move even faster than the cheetah. You
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What is the longest lived animal?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- October 25, 2013
Four hundred years ago, the world was a very different place. In England, William Shakespeare’s company was performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the first time. In Japan, the Edo period began. And in the cold waters off of Iceland, there lived a simple quahog clam. In 2006, that clam was dredged up by Icelandic
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What is the smartest kind of bird?0
- Life Science, Science Fun Facts
- November 22, 2013
Two hundred years ago, people used to think that humans were the smartest animals because we were the only ones who used tools. Then scientists discovered that chimpanzees and other primates used them too. But few people expected to discover a species of bird that uses tools too! What do you think the smartest birds
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