✨🌈🪐 Videos & News Today • October 28, 2025

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Michael Cosentino
October 28th, 2025

Daily knowledge and wonder. Share it with a kid.

In today's science news: Fish living inside other fish 🪼, how dogs sense fear in humans 🐕, and how the Mayans created an eclipse prediction system 🌒. Plus, more headlines after today's videos 👇

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✨🌈🪐 Today on TKSST

The U.S. is home to over 4,000 native bee species, including 1,643 in California. That incredible number inspired National Geographic Explorer and bee expert Krystle Hickman to highlight our native bees, A to Z, by their scientific names in her new book The ABCs of California’s Native Bees. 📔📷📋🖊️

A decade of her photography and fieldwork, beautifully published by Heyday Books, reveals what’s often overlooked in our gardens and wild spaces:

“In her debut book of natural history, she offers an intimate look at the daily habits of rare and overlooked native bees in California: those cloaked in green or black or red, that live alone in the ground or sleep inside flowers, that invade nests and pillage resources like infinitesimal conquerors, or that, unlike more generalist honeybees, are devoted exclusively to the pollen of a single type of flower.”

It was a treat to see her in conversation with @alieward of @ologies. 🎤✨

Want to see some native bees? Find some local native plants. 🌿🐝 @iNaturalist is a great place to start.

Want to help save native bees? Plant native plants in your yard or local green space. 🌱🌼🌱🌼🌱🌼

And if you’re in California or love its nature, definitely go find @beesip’s book in your local bookstore. ✨📖✨

 

While honeybees get most of the attention, North America is home to around 4,000 native wild bee species that play critical roles as pollinators.

 

Native bees are powerful pollinators that can rival or even outperform honeybees when it comes to crops and gardens.

 

Creating a bee-friendly garden is one of the most direct ways to support pollinators in your neighborhood.

 

🪐🧬🧠 Things we learned today

🐣 A microscope video captured a baby tardigrade hatching from its egg • Nautil.us

🪼 An underwater photographer captured footage of two fish living inside a jellyfish • Discover Wildlife

📚️ A researcher argues that assigning students books at their individual reading level hinders struggling readers • KQED

🌎️ Earth's Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more sunlight than the south, breaking a longstanding planetary symmetry • Live Science

🌒 Mayan astronomers created a 700-year eclipse prediction system without telescopes using math and observation • The Brighter Side

🐕️ How do dogs sense human fear? • Popular Science

🧬 How your graying hair may be helping to fend off cancer • Science Alert

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