Snakes eat only live food. Most snakes eat rats, birds, lizards, and rabbits. Small snakes eat mice, worms, frogs, snails, and insects. Snakes called hook-nosed snakes eat mostly spiders. African...
New skins for old
A shiny garter snake wiggles through the grass. Its wrinkled old skin hangs from the tip of its tail. The snake comes to some rocks. It slides between them. The old skin catches on one of the rocks....
Scaly babies and mothers
A large American alligator crawls into some thorny bushes. She pulls up bushes with her mouth. She stamps her feet. Soon, she has macle a wide, clear place. She makes a pile of mud and plants. She...
Meet the reptiles
You can always tell a turtle by its shell. A box turtle has a high, round shell that it can close up like a box. A map turtle has a wide, flat shell with bumpy edges. A soft-shelled turtle's shell...
This reptile
This is a looking page. Look at this turtle. The turtle's head looks as if an artist had painted stripes and spots on it. That's why this kind of turtle is called a painted turtle. The turtle's...
It’s a Reptile
> A gila monster is a reptile. Suppose you found some hard-shelled eggs lying on the ground. And suppose that some little scaly skinned creatures hatched out of them. What kind of animal would...
Grunts, croaks, snores, and roars
The ocean is a noisy place! It's full of grunts, croaks, squeaks, snores, clicks, and roars. Many of these sounds are made by fish. Some fish are named after the sounds they make. One kind of fish...
Which is the strangest fish?
> Mudskippers > Archerfish There are thousands of kinds of fishes. If you tried to choose the strangest fish in the world, you'd have a hard time. The mudskipper has a head like a frog and a...
Fish food
Nearly everything that lives in the water is food for a hungry fish. In the ocean, most fish eat only other fish. Ocean cod, hake, tarpon, and tuna dine on smaller herrings, sardines, and...
Finny fathers
In the world of fish, it is often the father that does most of the baby-sitting. A father smallmouth black bass starts to take care of his babies even before they're hatched. He makes a wide,...