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Naturalist Rudy Mancke removes the spins of the sea urchin and explains what a test is.
The Animal Kingdom
There are different groups of animals. One way to classify or group animals is by taking a look at their physical characteristics. Animals can be vertebrates (have a backbone) or invertebrates (have no backbone)
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke shows the different parts of the horseshoe crab.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke tells us about the lettered olive shell.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke explains what a fossilized bivalve is and how it came to be.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke explains the process of the horseshoe crab shedding its skin.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke explores the many different kinds of shells.
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Naturalist Rudy Mancke looks at the skull of the loggerhead sea turtle.
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“L” is for Loggerhead Turtle. State Reptile. The loggerhead turtle, a threatened species, is one of the world’s eight living species of turtles and evolved some sixty-five million to seventy million...
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• Pterourus glaucus • Male is bright yellow with black stripes • Female is less colorful than male • Eats nectar from flowers
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• Order Anura • Hatches from eggs laid in water • Some eggs laid in moist land areas or dropped into water or swept into water by rains or carried to water by parent • Developmental stage between egg...