Archive for March, 2009

Legs, the Centipede

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Centipedes have a hundred legs. Or so it seems when you see one walking down the bathtub. Imagine having to buy shoes and socks for all that lot! And think of the time it would take to put them all on in the morning! Centipedes are all wriggly and moving. Nobody ...

Muscles the Octopus

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Octopuses, or octopi as the man who writes the dictionary calls them, have lots of arms. Eight, in fact. The big ones live in the Pacific Ocean because it's warm there and sunny, and so they don't have to buy gloves, which would be expensive for so many arms. Muscles was ...