All animals need warmth inside their bodies if they want to stay alive. While some animals, like dogs and birds and even people, can keep their insides warm even when it’s cold outside, there are other animals, like lizards and snakes who have to use the sun and air to keep their insides warm! Some […]
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We don’t know what dinosaurs called each other when they were still walking around on Earth, but we certainly know what we call them nowadays. And let’s face it, some of the names sound downright funny! Triceratops? Pterodactyl? Where in the world did these names come from! Well, these names came from all sorts of
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You’ve probably seen at least one drawing of dinosaurs that shows a Stegosaurus and a Tyrannosaurus standing close by each other, but…you know what? Stegosauruses and Tyrannosauruses lived millions of years apart. In fact, the time between the T-Rex and the stegosaurus is even bigger than the time between the T-Rex and you! The three
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230 million years ago, Earth looked a lot different from the way it looks today. Not only did dinosaurs live on all seven continents back then, but also, all seven continents were stuck together as one big continent called Pangaea. That would sure make it a lot easier to travel around the world, wouldn’t it!
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There are still a lot of things we don’t know about dinosaurs, but one thing we know for sure is that dinosaurs and people never lived on Earth at the same time. In fact, people did not appear on Earth until about 65 million years after dinosaurs disappeared! Then again, some paleontologists think that our
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You might wonder how long ago dinosaurs first showed up on Earth. Well, the simplest answer is “A long, long time ago!” To be more exact, there was a dinosaur in South America called the Eoraptor who lived about 230 million years ago! And that’s not even the end of the story. Scientists think they
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Just like people, different dinosaurs had different skin colors! Of course, there are no pictures of dinosaurs that let us see exactly what they looked like, but paleontologists (the scientists who get to study old fossils!) have a pretty good idea of the colors that different dinosaurs wore. Recently they discovered that some dinosaurs had
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Just like you and me, dinosaurs got hungry! But dinosaurs couldn’t just pop open a bag of candy when they wanted to eat. They had to find food on their own. Some dinosaurs ate lizards and turtles. Some dinosaurs ate eggs. Some dinosaurs ate other dinosaurs, and some even ate animals that were already dead!
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Chimpanzees are the closest relatives to humans in the whole animal kingdom! They live in different parts of Africa, but they are spread all around the world in zoos, as pets, and even as test patients for scientists. Because of how closely chimpanzees are related to people, they have a lot of similarities to us!
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It seems like dolphins are some of the most popular animals in the world, and it’s no wonder why! In addition to being really, really cute, dolphins are extremely smart, and they are extremely friendly. For centuries, there have been stories at sea about dolphins helping to save drowning sailors, or about dolphins protecting people
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Of all the scary, mysterious animals in the world, sharks are right up there near the top! Sharks are the greatest predators in the ocean, and they are one of the animals that people fear the most. This fear for sharks comes from the shark attacks people hear about, and from movies where sharks are
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If you look at a zebra and take away the stripes, you will notice that a zebra is a whole lot like a horse. In fact, zebras are very closely related to horses and donkeys. Of course, the stripes are one of the main differences between zebras and their relatives! Another difference is the fact
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If you want to talk about body armor, look no further than the rhinoceros! The rhino is covered in thick armor that protects it from predators, and it has a horn above the nose that makes it easy to spot! The rhino horn is made out of keratin, which is the same our hair and
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Orangutans are very easy to spot because of the reddish-brown hair that covers their bodies, but if you want to spot them in the wild you’ll have to go a long way from home, because orangutans only live in Asia! The name “orangutan” means “man of the forest,” and this is a great description of
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Lions are called the kings of the animal kingdom, and one good look at an adult male lion gives you a really good idea of why lions have this nickname. Lions are the tallest of all the big cats, and they are some of the most powerful animals in the world! While lions used to
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If someone asked you what the largest big cat is, you would probably say the lion. But actually, the tiger is the largest of the big cats! The tiger is one of the most respected animals in the world, and it is also one of the most powerful. While tigers used to live all over
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Gorillas are the largest of all living primates (which is the family of animals that includes monkeys and apes). Just how big are gorillas? Male gorillas can grow as big as a full-grown adult, and they can weigh a whole lot more! That’s not the only thing gorillas have in common with people, either. In
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DINOLINGO Who knows if it’s true that “an elephant never forgets,” but one thing that definitely is true is that elephants are some of the smartest animals on the planet. As the largest land animal in the world, elephants also have the largest brains. While most of their brains are used for smell, hearing, and
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DINOLINGO Of course, everyone knows about the giraffe’s long neck and about the cool pattern on their body, but what else is there to know about the tallest land mammal? As it turns out, there’s a lot of cool stuff! Giraffes live in Africa, and they like to live in places where there are a
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DINOLINGO If you’ve ever been on a highway outside of the city, you’ve probably seen a “Deer Crossing” sign. These signs are all over the country, and the reason is because deer are all over the country! In fact, deer are all over the world. Deer are fast, graceful animals, and they usually live in
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DINOLINGO A lot of people get scared when they hear the word “bear,” but actually, real-life bears are less like the idea so many people have of bears…and are more like teddy bears! While a lot of people think of bears as terrifying predators, they are actually omnivores (which means that they will eat meat
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DINOLINGO If you think that dinosaurs are extinct, you might want to think again! While crocodiles are not exactly dinosaurs, they have been around since the age of the dinosaurs, and they are more closely related to dinosaurs and birds than they are to other reptiles. Just like dinosaurs, crocodiles are really interesting animals, and
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DINOLINGO Butterflies might be the most amazing of all the insects with their bright colors and magical way of flying around, it makes them some of the best-loved creatures in the world. Many think that butterflies live for only a short time, but while some butterflies live for only one week, other butterflies can live
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DINOLINGO Cows are some of the most important animals in the whole world. There are 1.3 billion cows on Earth, and if this seems like too big of a number to really understand, that’s because it is! Cows give us milk, beef, and leather, and they also help by pulling carts and plows on farms.
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