What on Earth! Magazine

What on Earth! Magazine, published in partnership with Encyclopaedia Britannica, is the UK’s fastest-growing children’s magazine, helping curious kids fall in love with reading, knowledge and learning. Covering all their favourite topics – from space, animals and the natural world, to history, machines and inventions – each issue is bursting with amazing facts, photos, quizzes, puzzles, jokes and more!

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FACTopia! • Follow the trail of crazily connected facts all the way from a golf caddie goat to… a ‘unicorn’ rhinoceros!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

Eureka! • The latest astonishing discoveries, inventions and scientific breakthroughs.

How to chat… NAKED MOLE RAT • A dialect is a form of language that people from a certain place use. For example, in the UK, people call a certain purple veg an ‘aubergine’, while Americans call it an ‘eggplant’. Animals can have dialects, too!

WORD UP! • THIS MONTH: Are there any words that are the same in all languages?

GAMES QUIZ! • Can you work out which sports and games are played using the equipment shown on this page? The answers are below left.

LET IT GROW! • Meet some of the extraordinary plants and trees that make life on Earth possible.

GADGETS IN NUMBERS

PUZZLES & GAMES! • Inside this 10-page activity section, you will find quizzes to do, puzzles to solve and fun activities to try. And don’t worry if you get stuck – all the answers are on page 32.

EYE DON'T BELIEVE IT! • Amazing optical illusions that trick your brain…

A timeline of musical instruments! • Do you love playing or listening to music? According to the latest archaeological evidence, humans have been creating music together for tens of thousands of years. But although music is a common feature of human cultures all around the world, the instruments people use to make it are different and have changed over time. On the timeline below, you can see when various popular musical instruments were first played – from prehistoric bone flutes to the electric synthesiser.

NOBODY KNOWS! • Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese form of healing that involves piercing the skin with thin needles to relieve pain. Modern doctors accept that acupuncture really can control pain and nausea. But as for exactly how it manages to do this…

WE ARE ALL ANIMALS • Humans are animals, too! Join us as we explore the amazing ways we are just like them.

MAP IT

THE BIG QUESTIONS

Use your SCISSORS to draw…

SEND IT IN!

READERS’ JOKES OF THE MONTH • Thanks to you, the What on Earth! inbox is overflowing with rib-tickling gags and riddles. Here are three of May’s favourites, which each win a copy of Secret FACTopia!

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Jokes & Riddles • Send your favourite joke or riddle to our jokes editor May at jokes@whatonearth.co.uk. If your joke is featured in a future issue of the magazine, you will WIN a copy of Secret FACTopia!