Wild Wonder stories
Discover facts with playful stories made for curious little explorers.
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Standing dreamer
Giraffe Catnap
A giraffe may sleep for only a few minutes at a time, adding up to less than an hour of rest a day.
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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.
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A pocket-sized start
The Kangaroo's Tiny Traveler
A newborn kangaroo is smaller than a jellybean and must crawl, blind and alone, straight up into its mother's pouch.
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Sunlight taking a bow
The Rainbow's Hidden Colors
A rainbow appears when sunlight bends inside countless raindrops, spilling out every color that was secretly hiding in what looked like plain white light.
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A body built to heal
The Starfish's Second Chance
If a starfish loses an arm to a hungry predator, it can often grow a brand new one back.
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A giant that keeps growing
The Reaching Redwood
A giant redwood can grow taller than a thirty-story building and live for more than two thousand years.
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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.
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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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Backward grower
The Time-Traveling Jelly
One tiny jellyfish can grow younger instead of older when life gets hard, essentially reversing its own aging.
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Cool light maker
The Firefly's Lantern
A firefly can glow without ever feeling warm, lighting up the summer night with a built-in lantern near its tail.
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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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Sky's icy circle
A Ring Around the Sun
Sometimes a giant glowing ring circles the sun, painted by ice floating high in the sky.