Wild Wonder stories
Discover facts with playful stories made for curious little explorers.
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A garden in the fur
The Sloth's Green Coat
A sloth moves so slowly that tiny algae grow right in its shaggy fur, turning it a soft mossy green.
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Hidden warmth
The Bear's Black Skin
Under all that white fur, a polar bear's skin is actually jet black.
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A pocket-sized start
The Kangaroo's Tiny Traveler
A newborn kangaroo is smaller than a jellybean and must crawl, blind and alone, straight up into its mother's pouch.
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A cloud you can walk through
The Cloud That Fell to the Ground
Fog is really just a cloud that formed so close to the ground that you can walk straight through it.
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Ice that grows in the sky
The Storm's Icy Marbles
A single hailstone can be tossed up and down inside a storm cloud again and again before it finally falls as a lump of ice.
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A hungry plant
The Snapping Trap of the Venus Flytrap
A Venus flytrap can snap its leaves shut around a wandering insect in less than a second, one of the fastest movements in the plant kingdom.
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Chasing endless sunlight
The Bird of Two Summers
Every year, a small Arctic tern flies from one end of the Earth to the other and back again, farther than one full trip around the entire planet.
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Ancient sky acrobat
Four Wings, No Rules
A dragonfly can fly straight up, straight down, and even backward, because each of its four wings moves on its own.
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Accidental gardener
Forgetful Squirrel
A squirrel buries hundreds of acorns every autumn, but forgets where it hid quite a few of them by the time spring comes.
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Colors from the sun
The Sky's Dancing Lights
Near the North and South Poles, the night sky can glow and ripple with waves of green, pink, and purple light called an aurora.
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Sunlight taking a bow
The Rainbow's Hidden Colors
A rainbow appears when sunlight bends inside countless raindrops, spilling out every color that was secretly hiding in what looked like plain white light.
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Sky's stopwatch
Counting the Storm
You can guess how far away a storm is by counting the seconds between a flash of lightning and the rumble of thunder that follows.