Special Collection: Amazing Animals
Explore animal favorites from the DynaMath and SuperScience archive, featuring amazing adaptations, endangered species, conservation efforts, and more
Cheetah's Best Friend
Learn how guard dogs help save wild cheetahs, then explain the work a conservation program is doing to help solve problems affecting farmers and cheetahs.
Gorilla Guardians
Meet the scientists and caretakers who work to protect endangered mountain gorillas, then evaluate how human activity affects these apes.
The Wolves of Isle Royale
Discover how scientists are helping an island’s top predator return from the brink, then explain how changes in wolf numbers can affect an ecosystem.
Colorless Creatures
Learn why some animals are born almost completely white, then construct an explanation for how albinism affects an animal’s survival in the wild.
Stolen Spiders?
Read how scientists are pushing back against the illegal sale of wild tarantulas as pets, then evaluate factual and opinion statements about tarantulas.
The Secrets of Sidewinders
Learn how some snakes can move quickly over sand, summarizing the discoveries from a scientific investigation. Then study how sidewinder snakes are adapted to move in sandy deserts.
Art Credits: Cheetah's Best Friend: WINFRIED WISNIEWSKI/PICTURE PRESS/REDUX; Gorilla Guardians: Marcus Westberg; The Wolves of Isle Royale: FUSE/GETTY IMAGES; Colorless Creatures: Peter Trimming/Flickr/CC BY 2.0; Very Busy Beavers: Jeff Foott/Minden Pictures; Stolen Spiders?: JEFFREY COOLIDGE/GETTY IMAGES; The Secrets of Sidewinders: DEAGOSTINI/GETTY IMAGES