Mandarin dragonets live in the western Pacific Ocean, from Hong Kong down to Australia. (Laos and the Federated States of Micronesia have both paid them tribute on postage stamps.) The species has not ...

The Swamp is best known as the home of Claude, the startlingly white Alligator mississippiensis who's become one of the Academy's most famous residents. Go below for underwater, eye-to-eye views of ...

On Day 2, students will examine how both agriculture and the foods we choose to eat can impact the environment. They will explore the impacts of clearing land for agriculture by reading about how and ...

"Diagram of the Earth's seasons as seen from the south" © 2006 Tauʻolunga ...

Develop insights into how the goods we buy and use can contribute to our indirect water footprint. Practice establishing what they already know about a problem and what questions to ask to better ...

poster or butcher paper construction paper in four different colors to represent the different spheres (we suggest blue to represent hydrosphere, green to represent biosphere, yellow to represent ...

The Genera are updated from Eschmeyer's 1990 Genera of Recent Fishes. Both genera and species are listed in a classification using recent taxonomic schemes. Also included are a lengthy list of museum ...

This activity works best if the worksheets with the planet names are placed side-by side on a table, and are arranged to match the order from the Sun. In front of these sheets place the instruction ...

If you want your students to practice their measuring skills, you can structure this activity so that each student gets a chance to measure. Put students in groups of six, and give each group a liter ...

H. sagamius lives in the Pacific Ocean at depths of 2,000 to 3,300 feet, where sunlight doesn't penetrate. Food is scarce in the deep, and chance encounters in total darkness are rare, so the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (August 15, 2022) — California now has two new scorpions on its list of species, thanks to the efforts of two keen-eyed high school students from the Bay Area and the California ...

Scene one: 1989 The first part of the Shake House experience takes you back to October 17, 1989, when the 6.9-magnitude Loma Prieta earthquake struck near Santa Cruz at 5:04 p.m. 63 people were killed ...