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This year World Otter Day is May 25. Let’s celebrate these amazing, water-loving, playful, carnivorous mammals.
What do you know about shrimp? Test your knowledge and maybe learn something new!
When most people think of tuna, they probably think of fish that comes in a can … You may be amazed at how awesome these fish really are!
1. True or False? A tapir looks like nature put a shortened elephant trunk on a pig, but tapirs are really relatives of horses and rhinos.
What is a penguin? Penguins are a group of flightless, aquatic birds. Flightless means that they cannot fly in the air like most other birds. Aquatic means they spend lots of time in the water. The wings of penguins are called flippers. Penguin flippers are…
1. True or False? All penguins live in Antarctica. False! Only two penguin species, the emperor and Adélie penguins are found only in Antarctica. Several more penguin species are found both on Antarctica and surrounding sub-Antarctic islands. There are also penguins in Africa, South America, Australia, and New…
1. True or False? Giant pandas have always lived in China. False! One of the oldest known giant panda fossils (or rather one of its direct ancestors) was found in Spain. It is over 11 million years old. Pandas were in Europe at some point…
Celebrate International Polar Bear Day, learn about polar bears and how you can help them.
February 19th is World Pangolin Day! Pangolins are awesome scaly mammals. There are 8 species of pangolins: 4 in Africa and 4 in Asia. But pangolins around the world are at risk of extinction. Pangolins are hunted in large numbers for their scales and meat.…
What would happen if nature threw a scaly dinosaur and a koala into a blender and spit the result back out to live in the forests and grasslands of Africa and Asia? The result might look like a pangolin: A pangolin. Photo credit: Tikki Hywood…
Reading level: Grade 5-6 You might think all rare and unique animals are discovered in remote places … like rainforests, mountaintops, or deserts. Not in the case of the Romer’s tree frog! This is the story of how this little frog found itself living in…