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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.
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?
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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.
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Thousands of miles home
The Butterfly's Long Journey
Monarch butterflies fly up to 3,000 miles to a place none of them have ever been before, following a path their great-great-grandparents once flew.
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Streak of light
Shooting Star's Wish
A "shooting star" isn't a star at all, it's a tiny speck of rock or dust burning up as it zips through our sky.
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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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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.
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Six-sided artist
The Snowflake's Secret
Every snowflake grows six sides, and no one has ever found two that are exactly alike.
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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.
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Traveling air
The Wind's Whisper
Wind is simply air hurrying from a place where it's pushing harder to a place where it's pushing less.
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Mighty little lifter
The Tiny Strongman
A rhinoceros beetle can carry about 100 times its own body weight on its back.
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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 tooth that senses the sea
The Unicorn of the Sea
A narwhal's long, spiraled tusk isn't a horn at all β it's actually a giant tooth, longer than a grown-up is tall, packed with nerve endings that can sense the water around it.
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.