New Science News Page for Kids
Posted on AAAS Web Site

Starting in mid-June AAAS and Science began posting a site for kids on EurekAlert!, the AAAS science news Web site.

The first issue reports on two Science studies that examine how wild animals help each other. Certain crows, for example, work as unpaid babysitters, helping to raise baby crows that aren't their own. Why bother?

If animals help out their close relatives, their families may have a better chance of surviving and producing future generations. But animal cooperation may not just be a family thing. For male side-blotched lizards, it may have more to do with getting attention from lady lizards.

For more information, read Science for Kids.

See also, Kids' Science News from AAAS.

—Coimbra Sirica

23 June 2003