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Never truly gone
The Plant That Comes Back
A resurrection plant can shrivel into a dry brown ball for years, then turn green again just hours after rain touches it.
β A tiny world of big discoveries
Stay curious,
little explorer!
Pick a card and uncover something amazing about our wild, wonderful planet.
Choose your trail
What will we explore today?
Story
Steps frozen in time
Footprints That Never Fade
The footprints astronauts left on the Moon more than fifty years ago are still pressed into the dust today, just as crisp as the moment they were made.
Story
Music made of wings
The Cricket's Nighttime Song
A cricket doesn't sing with its mouth at all; it makes its chirping song by rubbing a pair of special wings together.
Story
Backward grower
The Time-Traveling Jelly
One tiny jellyfish can grow younger instead of older when life gets hard, essentially reversing its own aging.
Story
Older than memory
Jupiter's Giant Storm
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a swirling storm so big it could swallow the entire Earth, and it has been raging for centuries.
Story
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.
Story
Sound seeing
Bat's Echo Song
A bat sings tiny songs too high-pitched for human ears, then listens to the echoes to find its way through the dark.
Story
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.
Story
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.
Story
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.
Story
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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A web made fresh
The Spider's Nightly Rebuild
Many orb-weaver spiders tear down their whole web every morning and spin a brand new one from scratch each night.
Wonder grows here
Made for curious kidsβand the grown-ups beside them.
Short, joyful facts make it easy to pause, ask questions, and see the everyday world with brand-new eyes.
What Wild Wonder does
A learning app for curious families
Explore and listen
Browse child-friendly nature and science facts, illustrated stories, filters, maps, and read-aloud narrationβwithout creating an account.
Remember on this device
Language, map choices, dismissed notices, and explorer progress can be saved in this browser so families can continue where they left off.
Optional parent account
Adults may sign in with Google. Wild Wonder requests only your verified email, name, profile picture, and Google account ID to create, display, and secure your parent-owned account. Public learning content never requires sign-in.