Author: Lisa Mungovan

A boy in Ireland must have given a soccer ball a mighty kick, because it ended up across the Irish Sea, in Wales. Summer Rickard found the ball washed up on shore in Tywyn. The ball had an Irish address on it, and by posting photos on Facebook, the owner was located 6 hours later!

A new pterosaur was discovered, that had opposable thumbs. It flew among the trees, and used its handy thumbs to help it climb. Researchers named it Kunpengopterus antipollicatus, but you can just call it Monkeydactyl. The small reptile lived during the Jurassic period, over 145,000,000 years ago, and is the only known pterosaur with thumbs.

I’ve gotta crawfish for sale here who’ll give me 1 dollar 1-dolla 1 dolla 1 here now gimme 2 2 2 dolla-two, sold, for $2. It’s Auctioneers Day! Talk like an auctioneer and sell something to your friends. I pretended to auction a crawdad, because it’s also Crawfish Day! They look like little lobsters, but they live in creeks.

Bats are amazing creatures. One colony of Mexican Free-Tailed bats eats up to 30,000 pounds of insects each night, including lots of annoying mosquitoes! Other types of bats eat fruit, like the giant golden-crowned flying fox. It has a wingspan of 5 1/2 feet! Bats are also pollinators, like bees and butterflies. Happy International Bat Appreciation Day!

Cheeseballs taste like cheese.

But kickballs don’t taste like kick.

Blah blah blah blah blah.

How did you like my haiku poem? Write your own 3-line poem, using 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables, for Haiku Poetry Day. Today is also Blah Blah Blah Day, Cheeseball Day, and Kickball Day. Blab on and on about nothing!

When archaeologist Marie Woods went to the coast in Yorkshire England, she was only looking for some shellfish for dinner. Instead, she found a massive 165,000,000-year-old dinosaur footprint. The print was most likely made by a megalosaurus from the Jurassic period. The meat-eating theropod track, is the largest ever found in Yorkshire.

Researchers have developed a new paint, that reflects over 98% of all light. If a roof was covered with the paint, it would cool the house down as much as a central air conditioner. The paint contains barium sulfate, which scatters light. Even in full sunlight, painted surfaces stay cooler than the surrounding air.

A woman in Poland was afraid to leave her windows open, because there was a strange creature in the tree. After 2 days, she called the Animal Welfare Society, telling them it might be an iguana. Upon closer investigation, they discovered it was only a croissant. Someone had probably thrown their bread to the birds.

Elephants are the largest land mammals in the world. Their skin is an inch thick, they can weigh over 12,000 pounds, and they eat 300-600 pounds of food a day, with around 220 pounds coming back out as poop. But elephants are hunted illegally for their tusks, and losing habitat. Learn more, for Save The Elephant Day.

For people who work from home, it will be easy to celebrate Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day. For everyone else, be bold, and be ready to explain to everyone that you didn’t simply forget to get dressed this morning! It’s also Orchid Day. There are over 21,000 varieties of these flowering plants. Happy orchid hunting!