What do children in other lands look like? What do they like to eat? What games do they like to play? Where do they go to school? What kinds of clothes do they wear? You can find the answers to these...
Where Did We Come From?
How did the world begin? Where did we come from? People have been puzzling over questions like these for thousands of years. The Bible tells the myth of the Creation of the world in the Book of...
Geologists
Marine geologists study the land beneath the sea. Their work helps people learn more about the world. Their work is also important because the land under the sea is a vast source of valuable...
Coast Guards
The Navy offers many careers, both at sea and on land. People aboard ships do all kinds of tasks above and below the deck. Sometimes sailors spend many months at sea. Their ship is refueled at sea by...
Wings over the water
Far out over the southern sea, thousands of miles from the nearest land, a great, graceful bird soars in the sky. The bird is a wandering albatross buh traws). It has the longest wings of any bird...
Birds
You might mistake an eel for a snake, or think of a whale as a fish. But no one can mistake a bird for any other kind of animal. Birds are the only animals that have feathers. And all birds have...
Real sea serpents
There really are sea serpents! However, they aren't strange, giant monsters. They are simply real snakes. They're much like the snakes that live on land, except that they spend their lives in the...
Sea cucumbers
There's a sea animal that looks like a vegetable, gets its food by \"licking its fingers," and shoots out part of its insides if it is attacked! Because this animal looks like the vegetable called a...
The bottom of the sea
Have you ever wondered what's at the bottom of the sea? Well, it's land, of course. When the sea was formed, water filled the low parts of the earth and covered much of the land. So, there is land...
The gift from the sea
Without the sea, there would be no life on the land. Snow, piled up on mountaintops, melts and trickles down mountainsides to become rivers. Rain and snow that fall to earth soak into the ground and...
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