Science Buddies
Can You Hide in Plain Sight? A Camouflage STEM Activity
If you could choose to be an animal, would you rather be a predator or prey? Many prey animals have developed clever strategies to escape their predators. One strategy is camouflage, which allows animals to blend in with their...
Science Buddies
Candy Camouflage
Have you ever wondered how predators, like wolves, lions, and hawks, are able to find their prey? And what can an animal do to stay off of a hunter's menu? To survive, some animals have developed specific camouflage tactics to fool their...
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and Adaptation
The pocket mouse can be light brown like the sands of the desert, or dark brown like the volcanic lava flows that are interspersed throughout New Mexico's Valley of Fire. It seems that predators have weeded out light colored mice in this...