(Bandera Natural History Museum) Adaptations (Bandera Natural History Museum)

AAAA! There’s a bear (and a Trent) behind us!

Arctic Tundra

Mountains of the World

Forest

Swamps

African Grasslands

Inquisitive minds want to know…

Swampy Land Mountains of the World These are both hooves, but are shaped so differently. Why?

These are all bears. Why do they look so different? Brown Bear; Arctic Tundra Grizzly Bear and American Black Bear: Mountains Polar Bear; Arctic Tundra

Dinosaurs had adaptations too.

These herbivores adapted a long neck. Why is this beneficial These herbivores adapted a long neck. Why is this beneficial? What consumer today has that same adaptation? Carnivores have sharp teeth and claws to catch Herbivores have flat teeth to grind and tear apart their prey. their food.

Now dinosaurs are fossils Now dinosaurs are fossils. Fossils tell scientists about how environments change as well as how organisms change.

(Dandelion seeds have light hairs to travel in the wind.)