It's a cool, damp night, and a wriggling worm searches for food in a garden. Before the sun rises, it returns to its home in the soil. Tiny hairs on the worm's skin grab the dirt to help the… More →
Grades 2 - 5
Hundreds of buzzing worker honeybees build a yellow structure called a comb inside a tree trunk. The comb is made up of many small, six-sided rooms that the bees make out of wax. These rooms, More →
One hundred or so green sea turtle babies scramble as fast as they can toward the sea. They have just hatched from eggs their mother buried on the sandy beach eight weeks earlier. If they… More →
A long green snake has just finished a large meal. Now it loops its body around a tree branch and rests, its green skin helping it blend in with its treetop rain forest home. The beautiful… More →
A huge spider pokes two hairy legs out of a hole in the sandy soil. The opening leads to the tarantula's underground home. The spider lines its home with silk to keep the walls from caving… More →
A brightly colored spider stretches silky threads between two tree branches. Then it lets more silk out of its body and moves back and forth to make a set of straight lines. Finally, the… More →
Long lines of tiny black ants march along a narrow path in a dense forest. They are foraging for food to bring back to a huge mound, which serves as the entrance to their vast underground… More →
A long, fuzzy insect with a helmet-shaped head crawls into a hole in a grassy field. Using its shovel-like front legs, the mole cricket scoops up dirt and pushes it out of the way. It's… More →
It's pretty amazing that homing pigeons can find their way back home--even when transported vast distances and then released. In fact, homing pigeons are known to have made trips as long as… More →