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!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

LISTIFIED! • Prepare to be amazed (and amused!) by the unusual facts crammed into these irresistible lists.

Making a Splash • The ten tallest waterfalls in the world

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

MAP IT

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

The science of sandcastles! • Grab your bucket and spade to discover the fun and fascinating science of sand.

WORD UP! • THIS MONTH: internet language

MONSTERS OF THE DEEP • Millions of years ago, all kinds of amazing and terrifying beasts swam in Earth's oceans. From armoured giants to bizarre bottom-dwellers, let's meet some of the most extraordinary creatures ever to swim the seas.

OCEAN GIANTS • Meet five prehistoric ocean giants – and see how they measure up against similar modern animals, which are shown in pink at the same scale.

BENEATH THE WAVES • Here is a selection of the extraordinary marine animals that thrived in and around prehistoric oceans, featuring some of our favourites from different periods of Earth's past.

WEIRD CREATURES • Some prehistoric sea creatures looked familiar. Others looked like nothing alive today. Meet eight truly weird – and wonderful – monsters of the deep.

THINK DIFFERENT! • Original people who changed the world. This month: inventor Nikola Tesla.

PUZZLES & GAMES! • Inside this 16-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 42.

ANSWERS

FOOTBALL IN NUMBERS…

20 eureka moments! • Travel through time with breakthroughs that changed science, technology and the way we understand the world.

EARTH vs VENUS • Earth and Venus are so similar in some ways that they are often referred to as ‘twins’ – although you wouldn't know it to look at them! The second and third planets from the Sun, they come the closest together in their orbits and are a similar size. Let's take a closer look at some ways these fascinating ‘twins’ are both alike and different.

Make your own FRIENDSHIP BRACELETS! • Friendship bracelets are a perfect craft for the holidays, as they are portable and easy to make. You can make them for yourself or give them away to friends!

THE PALACE OF FACTS • Prepare to enter the Palace of Facts, where fascinating facts await you in every room!

THE BIG PICTURE!

Yum! How the human body digests food • When you eat a meal, it takes between 24 and 72 hours for the food to pass through the digestive tract, which starts at the mouth and ends at the anus. Here we follow food on this epic journey, in an extract from Encyclopedia Infographica.

NOBODY KNOWS! • In 1977, a radio telescope in Ohio, USA, detected a 72-second signal from space so surprising that an astronomer wrote ‘Wow!’ on the printout. It has never been detected again. And as for what caused the mysterious ‘Wow!’ signal…

THE BIG QUESTIONS?

Last chance to step inside a world of illusions… • From space probes to book costumes, meet the readers, pets and posters brightening up Send It In this month.

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