In one corner, swinging in ever so slowly, is the chillest dude himself: Sloth! And making a splash in the other corner is Shark, ready to sink her teeth into this competition! Get ready to rumble in this latest installment of the funny face-off series! Check out a sneak peek of the book and vote for your fave.
Sloth It’s a good thing sloths don’t have to go to school.
Find out why these cute marsupials act like giraffes, koalas, and bats.
Tree-loving koalas have strong, large paws made for gripping branches all day.
Learn all about these bamboo eaters.
To stay healthy, they have to eat a lot—up to 15 percent of their body weight in
Seahorses are tiny fishes that are named for the shape of their head, which looks like the head of a tiny horse. There are at least 50 species of seahorses. You’ll find them in the world’s tropical and temperate coastal waters, swimming upright among seaweed and other plants. Seahorses use their dorsal fins (back fins) to propel slowly forward. To move up and down, seahorses adjust the volume of air in their swim bladders, which is an air pocket inside their bodies. Tiny, spiny plates cover seahorses‘ bodies all the way down to their curled, flexible tails. The tail can grasp objects, helpful when seahorses want to anchor themselves to vegetation. A female seahorse lays dozens, sometimes hundreds, of eggs in a pouch on the male seahorse’s abdomen. Called a brood pouch, it resembles a kangaroo’s pouch for carrying young. Seahorse young hatch after up to 45 days in the brood pouch. The baby seahorses, each about the size of a jelly bean, find other baby seahorses and float together in small groups, clinging to each other using their tails. Unlike kangaroos, baby seahorses do not return to the pouch. They must find food and hide from predators as soon as they’re born.
These fish don’t have true stomachs, just a digestive tube, so they need to eat all
Is this animal a dinosaur or a bird? Maybe it’s both!
And about those feathers: Scientists have found evidence that other dinosaurs like
A moose swims across a mountain lake, reaching the shore alongside a forest. The moose’s antlers—which stretch nearly six feet wide from tip to tip—drip water as the animal exits the water and trots toward the forest. The massive moose (weighing nearly 2,000 pounds) is the largest animal in the deer family.
ALL-WEATHER CHAMP Moose primarily live in areas that have cold, snowy winters.
Today, bison numbers have rebounded somewhat, and about 200,000 bison live on preserves
Today, bison numbers have rebounded somewhat, and about 200,000 bison live on preserves
They have strong paddlelike flippers that help propel them through the water.
They have strong paddlelike flippers that help propel them through the water.
Orcas have many hunting techniques, and bumping seals off ice is just one of them
Orcas have many hunting techniques, and bumping seals off ice is just one of them
Get pictures and fun facts about eight micro-bacteria that live on you.
Most people have about 67 different species living harmlessly in their navels.
