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!

FACTopia! • Follow the trail of crazily connected facts all the way from hairless cats… to ancient Peruvian popcorn cobs!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

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

How to chat… GECKO • Geckos are very chatty reptiles and are superstars at pest control. They usually spend their evenings hoovering up thousands of tasty insects, and jabbering away to each other as they do!

WORD up! • THIS MONTH: We asked, and you delivered! After learning in our February issue about the many ways new words are created, our clever readers have come up with their own. Try using these in a sentence, or test them out on your family!

HIDDEN PHRASES! • Each of these pictures represents a common phrase or name. Can you work out what each visual clue is saying? Don't worry if you get stuck, the answers are at the bottom of the page.

EPIC FACTopia! • Welcome to Epic FACTopia, where the 50 facts you are about to read are big, explosive, amazing – and all absolutely true!

MAP IT

FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER • From soaring leaps and record-breaking sprints, to climbing a 900-metre rock face without ropes and skydiving from the edge of space, we celebrate 20 feats of speed, strength and stamina that will leave you inspired – and amazed!

FASTER! • The chart below shows the evolution of the world record for the 100 metres sprint over more than 100 years, for both women (in dark green) and men (light green). As diet and training methods have improved, so athletes have run faster and faster.

HIGHER!

STRONGER!

LONGER!

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

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 40.

PICTURE QUIZ • Can you work out what you are looking at in each of these six photos?

SPACE WORD SEARCH • Can you find the 20 space-related words in our jumbo word search puzzle? Good luck!

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE • Can you spot all 2O differences between these two scenes from outer space?

ANSWERS

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

THE BIG QUESTIONS

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What on Earth! Magazine

Jokes & Riddles • Send your name, age and favourite joke 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!