Wild Wonder stories
Discover facts with playful stories made for curious little explorers.
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One eye on watch
The Dolphin's Half-Awake Sleep
A dolphin sleeps with only half of its brain at a time, keeping one eye open to watch for danger.
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Nature's engineer
The Beaver's Busy Dam
A beaver can chew through a tree trunk in one night and use it to dam a stream into its own private pond.
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Sky's slow dancer
The Moon's Changing Shapes
The moon seems to change shape every night, growing from a thin sliver into a full glowing circle and back again.
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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 giant that keeps growing
The Reaching Redwood
A giant redwood can grow taller than a thirty-story building and live for more than two thousand years.
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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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A planet covered in rust
The Rusty Red Planet
Mars looks red because its dusty ground is covered in rusty iron, the same kind of rust you might find on an old nail left out in the rain.
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Standing dreamer
Giraffe Catnap
A giraffe may sleep for only a few minutes at a time, adding up to less than an hour of rest a day.
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Cool light maker
The Firefly's Lantern
A firefly can glow without ever feeling warm, lighting up the summer night with a built-in lantern near its tail.
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A pouch of his own
The Seahorse Dad's Surprise
A daddy seahorse carries the eggs in a pouch on his belly and gives birth to the babies himself.
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Speedy grower
The Bamboo Race
Some bamboo can grow almost a meter taller in a single day, making it one of the fastest-growing plants on Earth.
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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.