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Surfing electrons create the northern lights

The flickering glow of the northern and southern lights is known around the world. They occur when electrons from the sun’s solar wind run into Earth’s magnetic field. But in order to build up enough energy to release light, those

Alison June 14, 2021June 14, 2021 Environment, Nature, Space, Uncategorized No Comments Read more

This sea slug lost its head!

You may have heard the phrase to lose your head, which means you’re not acting very sensibly. But this sea slug takes that saying to a whole new level. It quite literally separates its head from its body, then grows

Alison April 7, 2021 Awesome Animals, Nature, Weird No Comments Read more

Disappearing waterfall

The tallest waterfall in the South American country of Ecuador recently disappeared! The 500-foot-fall San Rafael Waterfall used to send thousands of gallons of water gushing over the rocky drop. But in early February, it seemed to dry up. Curiously,

Alison April 9, 2020 Discoveries, Nature, Weird No Comments Read more

Dancing peacock spiders

A 22-year-old researcher in Australia just discovered 12 new species of spider, seven of which are colorful peacock spiders. Not only are peacock spiders beautiful (their name reflects their colorfully patterned abdomens), but they are also exceptional dancers. Males wave

Alison April 1, 2020 Awesome Animals, Discoveries, Nature, Weird No Comments Read more

Zap! Newly discovered electric eel generates some serious current

Scientists recently discovered that there are not one (as they had thought), not two, but three different species of electric eel. And one of the new discoveries packs the biggest punch of all. These eels send out pulses of electricity

Alison March 27, 2020 Awesome Animals, Discoveries, Nature No Comments Read more

Listen to millions of monarchs

What sound does a butterfly make? With it’s delicate wings, not a whole lot–until you get millions of them together in one place. Most monarchs migrate to Mexico for the winter. There, they huddle in trees at night and flit

Alison May 9, 2019 Awesome Animals, Environment, Nature No Comments Read more

Slingshot spider

You thought cheetahs were fast? Meet the slingshot spider. This resident of the Peruvian rainforest nabs a meal in its web like most spiders. But instead of waiting for the food to come to it, this spider takes its web

Alison April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 Awesome Animals, Discoveries, Nature No Comments Read more

Ninja kangaroo rats!

Nature is awesome, and so are the scientists who study it. Researchers studying rattlesnakes and kangaroo rats (common predator and prey) needed to be able to see what happened during those lightning-quick interactions. To do so, they used high-speed video,

Alison April 4, 2019April 11, 2019 Awesome Animals, Nature No Comments Read more

Alison’s Adventures: Close encounters of the reptilian kind

I had a close encounter with (captive) wildlife not long ago, when my family visited the Wild Discovery Room at the Crane Festival in Kearney, NE. There were all kinds of great critters there, including eight or nine raptors (owls,

Alison April 5, 2016 Alison's Adventures, Awesome Animals, Nature No Comments Read more

Scientists discover deep-water octopod

Given how much of the world people have explored, you would think that scientists had discovered all the species out there. But new discoveries continue to happen. Take this “remarkable little octopod” discovered at 5,000 feet below sea level —

Alison March 6, 2016 Awesome Animals, Nature No Comments Read more
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