Are Unicorns Real?

What are eels? And why are some eels electric? We head to Poughkeepsie, New York to learn about eels with Chris Bowser, Hudson River estuary educator with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. Plus we learn about electric eels. Electric eels have captured the ima ...  Show more

Why is there traffic? How do traffic lights work? How do they know when to turn red and green? Why does green mean go and red mean stop? Why are cars able to go faster than they are allowed to go with the speed limit? Why do we drive on the right side of the road in the United St ...  Show more

Nowadays, experts and equestrians alike largely agree: unicorns are creatures of myth. But, not too long ago, the wealthiest people in Europe would pay top dollar for everything from powdered 'unicorn' dust, to fragments or full specimens of 'unicorn' horn, convinced these supern ...  Show more

You probably know exactly what animal we mean when we say “unicorn,” but descriptions and depictions of unicorns have shifted over the millennia. Some lore has roots in sightings of real animals that people have found difficult to describe, or that have been misinterpreted.  Lear ...  Show more

Au programme aujourd’hui : les licornes. Depuis des siècles, les licornes se cachent des hommes pour vivre en paix. Poilaudent va nous raconter comment il a organisé la rencontre de la licorne Étoile et de la petite Emma Truc-truc !

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In this kid's story, Vianna goes on a train through earth to a world where unicorns live. While there, she gets a sick baby unicorn, which she needs to save by bringing it back to the world of the people. Upon doing so, she creates special weather phenomena with the unicorn, t ...