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Illustration of a giant shark dwarfing the whales it swims with and is about to bite into one. Caption: megalodon was maybe 50 feet, or 15 meters, in length.

Owl with a small rodent in its beak. Raptor - A bird of prey such as an eagle, hawk, or owl that kills and eats other animals for food. Caption: Nocturnal raptors like owls eat many rodents

Giant walking stick pinned to a board for display. Caption: This one's from Malaysia.

Closeup of the bottom side of a winged insect's body. Caption: All insects are roughly made up of the same sections --

Litchens are found on a rusty car door. Caption: What caught their attention was the abundance of lichens,

Person holding a grasshopper. Melanoplus Differentialis. Caption: And this is a differential grasshopper,

Closeup of the front half of an ant. Camponotus nigriceps. Caption: They bore through wood, but don't eat it.

Brown fuzzy mammal sitting in a tree. Caption: An olingo is a member of the raccoon family.

Two people standing in front of a mural. One holds a printout of a photograph. Caption: One of Carl Akeley's photos. The beautiful bunch of aloe.

Closeup of an animal with a pointed snout, large claws, and overlapping scales covering its body. Caption: They are covered in keratin scales,

Illustration of a fish with long, pointed fins. Cartilaginous Fish (thresher shark). Caption: those with skeletons of cartilage --

Illustration of a skeleton. Arrows indicate the front right toe and back left heel. Caption: Their elongated heel bone and Achilles tendon.

Person turning the page of a book with detailed illustrations. The turning of the page. Caption: revealing a new page every week,

A photograph of Cetti's Warbler and its egg which measures 1 centimeter. On screen text, Cetti's Warbler, Cettia cetti. Caption: This is a Cetti's warbler from Southern Europe.

Two people looking at a computer screen. Caption: who has researched various aspects of hominid evolution.

A pile of small, furless rodents huddled together in a den lined with grass. Naked mole-rat huddle. Caption: If they're cold, they huddle together,

Dried red-leafed plant with a cluster of long, pointed leaves. Caption: Poinsettias are another delightful botanical accent

Specimens of worms are stacked in bottled jars. On screen text, 427,000 specimens. Caption: Philips, we have at least 427,000 specimens of worms,

A diagram compares the population of the false water cobra and the cane toad. The population of poisonous cane toad is higher than that of the immune false water cobra.

Cartoon character reaching under a hen nesting on eggs and pulling out an egg. Caption: So all we need is one of these.

Cartoon of a character gesturing to a complex diagram of machinery. Caption: we believe in breaking things down.

People inside the magic school bus with a giant fish opening its mouth to swallow them visible through the window outside. Caption: And what eats little fish, like anchovies?

Cartoon of a plant with a face in a yard. Caption: I am hungry but not for people food.

Magic school bus floating in a cavern lined with red, finger-like structures. Caption: (Wanda) And those things out there are the villi.

Students on the magic school bus. Caption: Two things make me sneeze -- pollen and pepper.

Cartoon of a person's face on a fish body. Caption: Eat and grow. Eat and grow.

Cartoon characters next to a pond with a frog on a lily pad. Caption: And lots of space to hop around in.

Cartoon characters with faces and the bodies of bees. Caption: They thought we were bees from their hive

Cartoon of a person pointing at glass containers with corks. Caption: Cinnamon, mint, skunk--

Cartoon of a person wearing a hard hat, kneeling in the dirt and holding some in their hands. Caption: Look! Beautiful rich soil!

Cartoon of people huddled under a picnic table while a giant praying mantis walks by. Caption: I think what we need is a professional bug trapper.

A meerkat sitting in the sand. Caption: As part of the attempt to understand our world,

Painting of a squid. Caption: What's happening--the whale's trying to eat the squid.

Artwork of a seed planted in the ground. Caption: The tiny seed hasn't begun to grow yet.

Color illustration of a green caterpillar standing on a rock and glancing upwards at an angle. Tall blades of grass in the background.

A sunflower is labeled, Dormancy, to sleep, and, Tropism, to turn.

Illustration of a woman riding the bow of a ship and holding tulips while a throng of people stand beneath her. Caption: Some call this the first bubble economy.

Several large fish swimming in the water, as seen from the deck of a ship. Caption: Three thousand bluefins are farmed here.

Closeup of a young woman's face. Caption: It's about who you are on the inside.

A photo of a Cheetah.

A Satellite image of the Earth.

A photo of a glacier.

A boy blows a balloon. Caption: All gases will completely fill any closed container.

A group of people inspecting a waterbody.

Illustration of a whale swimming underwater. Music note.

Cartoon image of an open book. Caption: Let's look inside this book and see.

Closeup of pink flowers with water dripping from them. Caption: Plants also need water to survive.

Chunk of rock sitting partially submerged in water. Caption: Matter is anything that takes up space.

A snake on a rock. Caption: All reptiles are cold-blooded,

A bee gathering nectar from a flower. Caption: A honeybee is an insect.

Two glasses with colored liquid in them. One glass has a person holding a cylindrical electronic device in the liquid. Caption: and check the parts per million of solutes.

White foaming waves crash on a rocky shore. Caption: Their activity ebbs and flows with the tides.

Person walking through stacked rows of chickens in cages. Caption: This is the age of the designer egg.

Magnified view of cells. Caption: to allow liver cells to grow into functional livers.

Illustration of a net-like structure. Protein. Mucus is a meshwork of proteins

Illustration of the islands of the Caribbean. Haiti and the Dominican Republic highlighted. Caption: Cortés lived on the island for six years.

Diagram of human upper body with heart, lungs, and circulatory system visible. Caption: such as the respiratory system