A Moment of Science
As part of the mating process, female giant water bugs latch onto male water bugs and cement as many as one hundred and fifty eggs to his back, then leaves.
What is the biggest living animal? An elephant? Not even close. Learn more on this Moment of Science.
Native Americans called it Pogonip, or white death. Find out more about this strange type of fog.
Eating snow to obtain water is metabolically expensive–it would take too much energy to melt down enough snow. Consequently, polar bears have evolved so that they don’t need to drink free water.
Surprisingly, snow makes good insulation. In physics, an insulator is a material that does not conduct heat very well, like an oven mitt.
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