Wild storks in Japan grow to 476 birds
Wild storks are flying again in Japan. At the end of July 2024, there were 476 storks living in the wild.
Living things and the environment
Science
Grade 6
Living things eat and are eaten, and this chain of eating is called a food chain. Looking at medaka and tiny water creatures under a microscope shows that small living things become food for fish, and following food back far enough always leads to plants, which make their own food from sunlight. Living things are also tied to their surroundings through air and water. Plants give oxygen to the air, and animals breathe that oxygen in. Water on the Earth evaporates from the sea and the ground, becomes clouds, falls as rain, and returns again, and living things live within that cycle.
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Scientists find hundreds of whale bones deep in Indian Ocean
Scientists from China have found the bones of many whales at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Some of the bones are more than five million years old.
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Scientists find a new deep-sea eel near Japan
Scientists in Japan have found a new species of deep-sea eel. Fumihito Tashiro of the Hokkaido University Museum and Munehiro Takami of Tokai University led the study.
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
New sensor finds very small plastic pieces in water
Researchers at Science Tokyo, a university in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, have made a new sensor. The sensor can find very small pieces of plastic in water.