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What on Earth! Magazine

Sep 01 2026
Magazine

What on Earth! Magazine is an award-winning factual magazine for ages 7 to 14 that helps curious kids fall in love with reading and learning. Covering all their favourite topics – from animals, space and nature, to history, art, science and sport – each issue is bursting with amazing facts, photos, quizzes, puzzles, jokes and more!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

MAP IT

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

WHAT ARE THE ODDS? • Get your calculators ready for a maths-tastic journey into probability and discover the surprising odds of events from the everyday to the unbelievable!

Ask the experts

PUZZLES & GAMES! • Inside this 14-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 34.

Are you related to a slug? • Members of the same species have most of their DNA in common. For example, 99.9 per cent of your DNA’s genetic code is also found in every other human being! Here’s how much of our DNA we share with other living things, in an extract from Encyclopedia Infographica.

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

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

ALLIGATOR VS CROCODILE

A CLOUD SPOTTER’S GUIDE • Learn how to identify different types of clouds from the brilliant new book How to Do (Almost) Everything, by Becky Baines.

SEND IT IN!

READERS PICS • Find out what your fellow What on Earth! readers have been up to this month…

What on Earth! Magazine

Jokes & Riddles

Formats

  • OverDrive Magazine

Languages

  • English