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How Can You Tell When a Bird Needs Help?
  • 4 days ago
  • 4 min

How Can You Tell When a Bird Needs Help?

It’s a question that comes up often. People find a bird that might be injured and wonder what to do. The answer depends on several...
Five Fast Facts About Lunar Eclipses
  • May 13
  • 5 min

Five Fast Facts About Lunar Eclipses

The night sky is awe-inspiring, even more so when something out of the ordinary, like a lunar eclipse, happens. Total lunar eclipses...
How Do Plants and Animals Know It's Spring?
  • May 3
  • 3 min

How Do Plants and Animals Know It's Spring?

Take a look outside. Birds are chirping, tree leaves are budding, the grass is turning green again. It’s spring! But how do plants and...
Take Up a Cause and Be An Environmental Hero
  • Apr 19
  • 3 min

Take Up a Cause and Be An Environmental Hero

Have you ever looked at some part of the world and thought, “Gosh, this really stinks! When I am old enough, I am going to do something...
Why Animals Are Sometimes the Wrong Color
  • Apr 1
  • 5 min

Why Animals Are Sometimes the Wrong Color

Animals are one of the first things we learn about as kids. We learn that cows moo, lions roar and frogs ribbit. We learn about farm...
Why Do Beavers Have Orange Teeth?
  • Mar 18
  • 2 min

Why Do Beavers Have Orange Teeth?

Beavers chomp through trees with bright orange front teeth. Are beavers just forgetting to brush? Your dentist might not be happy to see...
Stop Hating on Spiders; They're Important Too
  • Mar 15
  • 3 min

Stop Hating on Spiders; They're Important Too

Some animals don’t get much respect from people, and spiders are one of those creatures. Just like other animals with more than four...
Where Do Insects Go in Winter?
  • Feb 28
  • 3 min

Where Do Insects Go in Winter?

When winter arrives, the world all around us seems to get a little quieter. Some animals enter hibernation, some leave the area...
Five Facts About Winter's Trademark: Snow
  • Feb 23
  • 4 min

Five Facts About Winter's Trademark: Snow

Snow is one of the most polarizing things about winter. People love snow or hate snow, but even people who love snow sometimes get sick...
Crows, Ravens Often Confused, But Both Viewed Suspiciously
  • Feb 18
  • 2 min

Crows, Ravens Often Confused, But Both Viewed Suspiciously

Crows and ravens are both birds that are all black in color, which might be why some people consider them a bad omen. Both birds have...
Do Animals Fall in Love? Maybe
  • Feb 11
  • 2 min

Do Animals Fall in Love? Maybe

Love is giving someone a bouquet of flowers. Love is building a home for your family. Love is doing a beautiful dance. And sometimes,...
Ring Around the Moon or Sun? It's a Halo
  • Feb 8
  • 2 min

Ring Around the Moon or Sun? It's a Halo

Have you ever looked up at the moon and wondered why it looked as though it was surrounded by a perfect circle of light? Were your eyes...
Where Do Robins Go in Winter?
  • Jan 31
  • 2 min

Where Do Robins Go in Winter?

Many people consider the sight of a robin a sign of spring, a promise of warmer days ahead. But robins are also sometimes spotted in the...
These Woodpeckers Often Confused, But They Don't Look Alike
  • Jan 28
  • 2 min

These Woodpeckers Often Confused, But They Don't Look Alike

Unlike many cases of mistaken animal identification, red-headed woodpeckers and red-bellied woodpeckers don't actually look alike. The...
Fossils A Rare Find, And Some Are Billions of Years Old
  • Jan 26
  • 2 min

Fossils A Rare Find, And Some Are Billions of Years Old

Fossils are evidence of the living things that lived long ago, and they have been found all over the globe. The youngest fossils are from...
Five Wild Facts About Not-So-Nice Blue Jays
  • Jan 18
  • 4 min

Five Wild Facts About Not-So-Nice Blue Jays

With their bright blue feathers and their loud, piercing call, blue jays are one of our most easily identifiable birds. If you keep bird...
I Spy: Some Animals Are Masters Of Camouflage
  • Jan 7
  • 6 min

I Spy: Some Animals Are Masters Of Camouflage

In the animal kingdom, it is often eat or be eaten. Because of this, many animals have developed some defense mechanisms to keep them...
Five Fun Facts About Our Only Marsupial, The Opossum
  • Dec 22, 2021
  • 3 min

Five Fun Facts About Our Only Marsupial, The Opossum

Opossums are one of those animals that are so ugly they’re cute, which makes easy to identify. Once you've seen one, there's no mistaking...
What Can You Do To Help Endangered Species? A Lot
  • Dec 7, 2021
  • 4 min

What Can You Do To Help Endangered Species? A Lot

When you think about endangered species, you might think about gorillas or tigers or elephants, but we have endangered species living...
Do Animals Give Gifts? Many Do
  • Dec 3, 2021
  • 4 min

Do Animals Give Gifts? Many Do

Animals might not celebrate Christmas or Chanukah or Diwali or Eid, but that doesn’t mean they don’t give gifts. We are not the only...
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