and adaptations that fish have developed to aid in their survival. Included in the unit plan are five days’ worth of comprehensive daily lesson plans, engaging activity worksheets, graphic organizers, ...

Fast-rising temperatures can change how plants and animals behave and disrupt the delicate timing of pollination.

New findings challenge assumptions about species’ ability to persist under climate change. Following a nine-year study of over 100,000 individual Drummond's rockcress plants – a common plant found in ...

We’re at the precipice of a mass extinction, of all plants across the East Coast,” said Prof. Bethany Bradley of UMass. “If ...

Research leverages these similarities, using animals like mice, dogs, and zebrafish to understand human health and disease. On a genetic level, humans actually share a surprising amount of DNA ...

Let us know! The Philadelphia Zoo has sprouted five massive plant displays of giant animals and insects. At the entrance is a huge butterfly sculpture with outspread wings embedded with 3,200 tiny ...

This five-day unit on crustaceans includes comprehensive daily lesson plans, engaging activity worksheets, comprehension ...

If you didn't know, Arbor Day is a day when people are encouraged to gather and plant trees ... cultivated to nourish and enrich the diets of animals that live on the Zoo property!

Plant cells have several structures not found in other eukaryotes. In particular, organelles called chloroplasts allow plants to capture the energy of the Sun in energy-rich molecules; cell walls ...