Brilliant Bugs
These 8 legged creatures are not true bugs but rather arachnids.
What are spiders?
Trees are filled with this sticky substance which they use to transmit nutrients.
What is sap?
These arctic birds are incapable of flight.
What are penguins?
This fuzzy fungus grows on old bread and is usually green or white.
What is mold?
Oak trees grow these hard nuts to protect their seeds from squirrels and birds.
These bright red, flying insects look beautiful but are actually highly poisonous if eaten.
What are monarch butterflies?
These are the tallest trees in the world.
What are giant sequoias/redwoods
These birds can fly both forwards and backwards.
What are hummingbirds?
This fungi helps bread rise when baking.
What is yeast?
These scientists dig up dinosaur bones.
What are paleontologists?
These are the most venomous spiders in the world and their bites can require as many as 12 shots of antivenom to treat.
What is a funnel web spider?
You can tell how old a tree is by counting how many of these it has.
What are rings?
These aquatic mammals are the largest animals to have ever existed.
Fungi use these instead of seeds to reproduce.
What are spores?
These dark black birds are the smartest animals in the world(other than humans of course!).
What are ravens or crows?
Flies use these unusual parts of their bodies to taste food.
What are feet?
What are aspen trees
What are tails?
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, a type of mushroom grows inside of ants and turns them into this scary monster.
What is a zombie?
These extinct cats could have fangs as long as 11 inches.
What are smilodon (saber-toothed tigers)?
These hardworking insects are found everywhere and scientists think there may be as many as 20 quadrillion of them on Earth right now.
What are ants?
The leaves of this Australian tree are food for koalas despite being toxic to humans.
What is a Eucalyptus Tree?
The peacock mantis strip can punch so hard it causes the water in front of it to do this.
What is boil?
This famous medicine is actually made by a type of mold.
What is Penicillin?
Even though many people think they are dinosaurs these extinct animals, which were the first flying creatures are actually their own order of animals.
What are pterosaurs?