Animals have adaptations to help them catch food, avoid being eaten, and survive nature’s unforgiving environments.
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Forget what the calendar says. When you see the flicker of a firefly’s fanny, you know summer has arrived.
Join Xplor for a guided tour of wet, wild, and wonderful wetlands.
Motivational messages from a three-toed box turtle.
Xplor: February/March 2013
This issue of Xplor features stories about opossums, creatures that transform, and a biologist that gets up close and personal with Missouri's black bears.
Xplor: December 2012/January 2013
This issue of Xplor features stories about bald eagles, animal wrappers, and how to build a wreath for the birds.
Xplor: October/November 2012
This issue of Xplor features stories about flying squirrels, nature's zombies and a student who nurses injured birds of prey back to health.
Xplor: August/September 2012
This issue of Xplor features stories about what not to do while camping, how little critters learn to survive in the wild, and a shorebird board game (try saying that three times fast).
Xplor: June/July 2012
This issue of Xplor features stories about catfish, bullfrog hunting and a kind of snake that sometimes eats other snakes—even venomous ones.
Xplor: April/May 2012
This issue of Xplor features stories about giant moths, robotic crime-fighting critters and a biologist who lassoes lizards with dental floss.
Xplor: February/March 2012
This issue of Xplor features stories about trout fishing, wood ducks, a wildfire dozer driver and animal courtship.
Xplor: December 2011/January 2012
This special issue of Xplor offers 75 reasons to celebrate conservation in Missouri.
Xplor: October/November 2011
This issue of Xplor features stories about deer hunting, animals that hunt for food, and creatures that come out at night.
Xplor: August/September 2011
This issue of Xplor features stories about a biologist who snorkels streams to find rare fish, creatures that live underground, dove hunting, and how to forecast winter weather using a persimmon.