Many animals protect themselves by pretending. The frilled lizard is small and harmless. But it pretends to be big and dangerous. When it opens its mouth its throat is bright red and frightening. A...
Changing color
How would you like to play hide-and-seek with a chameleon? You'd have a hard time finding this tiny lizard. It can hide by changing color! It can be green on a green leaf, yellow on yellow sand, and...
Hiding with color
Hop! A green grasshopper shoots up out of the grass. It sails through the air and lands in the grass again. You can't see it before it jumps. And you can't see it after it comes down. Its green color...
Staying Alive
A porcupine's quills help it stay alive. Far up near the North Pole a tiny, baby seal lies in the snow. If a polar bear saw the baby seal, the bear would eat it up in a minute! But the polar...
Sea Peaches
> The sea peach is one kind of sea squirt. Sea squirts suck water in, > then squirt it out. Sea peaches, cucumbers, grapes You would never find a sea peach in a basket of fruit, or a sea cucumber...
Biggest of all!
What is the biggest animal that has ever lived? It's not one of the giant dinosaurs of long ago. It's an animal that is living right now. It is the blue whale. A blue whale is so long and wide that...
The pasture of the sea
Billions and billions of tiny plants and animals live in the ocean. Most of them are so small they can be seen only with a microscope. These tiny plants aren't like plants you have seen. Some look...
Growing a new arm
Sun Starfish A starfish's points are its arms. Most starfish have five arms. Some have many more. There's an animal that has eyes and feet on its arms and turns its stomach inside out when it eats!...
Living in a cup
An animal like a tiny flower floats down through the water of the sea. It fastens itself to the sandy bottom. It takes minerals out of the water and builds a tiny stone cup around itself. After a...
Meet the mollusks
Snails belong to a group of animals called mollusks. Mollusks have soft bodies with no bones. Some mollusks such as snails, clams, oysters, and scallops have outer shells for protection. Slugs,...