β A tiny world of big discoveries
Pick a card and uncover something amazing about our wild, wonderful planet.
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Wonder grows here
Short, joyful facts make it easy to pause, ask questions, and see the everyday world with brand-new eyes.
Memory keeper
The oldest elephant in a herd remembers the way to water holes that only she has ever visited.
A body built to heal
If a starfish loses an arm to a hungry predator, it can often grow a brand new one back.
Ice that grows in the sky
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.
A garden in the fur
A sloth moves so slowly that tiny algae grow right in its shaggy fur, turning it a soft mossy green.
A pocket-sized start
A newborn kangaroo is smaller than a jellybean and must crawl, blind and alone, straight up into its mother's pouch.
Mighty little lifter
A rhinoceros beetle can carry about 100 times its own body weight on its back.
Sky's icy circle
Sometimes a giant glowing ring circles the sun, painted by ice floating high in the sky.
Standing dreamer
A giraffe may sleep for only a few minutes at a time, adding up to less than an hour of rest a day.
Roots on the move
Mangrove trees grow roots that arch up out of the mud like a tangle of legs, letting them stand right in the salty sea.
Speedy grower
Some bamboo can grow almost a meter taller in a single day, making it one of the fastest-growing plants on Earth.
Snuggled in stinging arms
A clownfish can swim safely among a sea anemone's stinging tentacles, which would sting almost any other fish that touched them.
Tiny builders
A giant coral reef is built slowly over hundreds of years by animals smaller than your fingertip.
