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polar regions

(Encyclopedia) polar regions: see Antarctica; Arctic, the.

Roundup of Recent Science Milestones, 2008

From a new lab on the International Space Station to the Large Hadron Collider by Mark Hughes Related Links New Planets and a Larger Solar System Encyclopedia: Leopard Famous…

Bears Ears National Monument

(Encyclopedia) Bears Ears National Monument, 201,876 acres (81,696 hectares), SE Utah; est. 2016. Named for prominent twin buttes, the national monument as proclaimed by President Obama was more than…

Monster’s Poll

Which of these animals from cold climates is your favorite? polar bear penguin reindeer sled dog walrus Take another poll

bear, in zoology

(Encyclopedia) bear, large mammal of the family Ursidae in the order Carnivora, found almost exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere. Bears have large heads, bulky bodies, massive hindquarters, short…

Celluloid Santas

Pudgy Red Elf vs. Little Green Men Seventy-five years after Clement Moore penned The Night Before Christmas, which gave us the first detailed description of Mr. Claus, the jolly old elf made his…

Animal Arsenal

Animals' lives are not peaceful! They must be able to find food for themselves and their young (which often includes tracking and killing it), and avoid becoming food themselves. Sometimes they…

Algebra: Graphing Linear Equations

Graphing Linear Equations Algebra Graphing Linear Equations Climb Aboard the Coordinate Plane Sketching Line Graphs It's a Slippery Slope Kinky Absolute Value Graphs The fact that I am a…