Each one is like opening a present because you never know exactly what you will find. Owl pellet dissection is a valuable lesson for all ages because it informs us about how much energy it takes ...

This year, we revisited another classic – the owl pellet dissection. Perhaps a third of my current students remembered having done this before; some in elementary school, some in middle school.

BELLINGHAM -- Somewhere, as you read this, a long-legged, heart-faced barn owl is stretching out its neck and delicately upchucking. Out drops a compact pellet of undigested lunch, which falls ...

I had been browsing through the www.acornnaturalist.com web site when I noticed it offered owl pellets for dissection. Then I noticed the “Owl Pellet Investigation Field Biology Kit.” ...

owl pellets are really like a birthday goody bag and politically correct science lab all rolled into one nice little fumigated packet. “It’s not a live dissection, so it’s more economical ...

He explained that analyzing the pellets helps to understand the owl's diet. As a primer for the dissection, the class also learned about different types of owls we may see in Connecticut ...

Ballston Spa High School senior Alaina Perez helps second-grade student Ayumi Kimura from Malta Avenue Elementary School with an owl pellet dissection at the PTA's annual Super Science on Saturday ...