#871 How do animals find water?
How do animals find water? They have many methods. Some animals can smell or sense water. Some animals get their water through eating plants. Some animals have evolved to need…
How do animals find water? They have many methods. Some animals can smell or sense water. Some animals get their water through eating plants. Some animals have evolved to need…
Why do some birds have red eyes? Birds with red eyes have a lot of tiny blood vessels in their eyes. Human eyes come in one of six colors. Our…
How do deep sea creatures see? They don’t see color, they have very large eyes, they use other senses, or they produce their own light. Light doesn’t penetrate very far…
How do sharks sense electricity? With a special organ called the ampullae of Lorenzini. They are not the only sea life that are able to detect electricity. All living creatures…
Is a killer whale a whale? Yes and no. Yes, because dolphins are technically whales. No, because a killer whale is a dolphin. They are called orcas, although they are…
What is the difference between bees and wasps? There are many differences. Some of them are what they eat, where they live, how they sting, and how hairy they are.…
Why do we have ears on the sides of our head? Because of the position of our brains and our spines, because it puts the most possible distance between each…
Why can mantis shrimp see so many colors? It turns out that they can’t see more colors than we can. They just process the way they see colors differently. Manis…
Why do birds need to see ultraviolet light? It helps them with foraging, navigation, and signaling to each other. We can only see combinations of three colors: red, green, and…
Why did prehistoric insects grow so big? Because there was a lot more oxygen in the atmosphere and there were no birds. The largest insect in the world today is…