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!

COMPETITION!

FACTopia! • Follow the trail of crazily connected facts all the way from the jackrabbit's giant ears… to a world record for eating cake!

WHAT ON EARTH! • Astonishing photos from around the world

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

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

Spare Parts • Six organs your body can survive without* and why

BIG CATS! • Lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, jaguars and pumas are among the most successful - and majestic - predators on Earth. So join us for a fascinating big cat safari, as we find out where and how these beautiful animals live.

BIG CAT Q & A

BIG CAT MAP

How to CHAT CHICKEN • How gorillas gossip, bees babble, geckos gab, and other fascinating ways animals talk to each other.

CHICKENS • You might have heard hens go ‘boouuuaaaak’ and roosters go ‘eaaurg kegh-ahhh oo-OOOO!’ But there are lots of other sounds that are useful to learn if you want to chat chicken.

PICTURE THIS! • How amazing information about our world - and beyond! - can be brought to life by fascinating infographics.

How to read infographics • Infographics are used to organise and present all sorts of information. Some infographics can be as simple as showing how many of something there are, or the location of things on a map or timeline. Other infographics explore things that are less familiar - for instance, the size of all the exoplanets that have been discovered outside our own solar system. Here are some other methods to look out for.

How far away is the Moon? • As we stand on Earth, the Moon feels relatively close to us, but it is actually hundreds of thousands of kilometres away. If you lined up the seven other planets in our solar system in a row, they would fit in the space between Earth and the Moon. In fact, in a strange coincidence, they would fit rather neatly!

All about asteroids! • There are more than 1.1 million large asteroids in the solar system. Most of them are located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids are usually created from the rock, metals and other stuff left over when planets form. Many asteroids are only the size of large boulders, but the biggest can be hundreds of kilometres across.

6 infographics that changed the world! • Infographics have helped people share important information for thousands of years. Here are just a few examples of amazing infographics that shaped the world.

The What on Earth! Quiz • Test your family's brainpower by playing the What on Earth! Quiz together. Regular readers may have an advantage because some of the facts appeared in previous issues of the magazine. Don’t worry if you don’t know them all, though - the answers are at the end of the quiz!

THE WHAT ON EARTH! QUIZ Challenge

Ask the experts • Readers ask. Experts answer. Send your questions to: editor@whatonearth.co.uk

WACKY HISTORY! • Sixteen unbelievable things that actually happened - from Cleopatra's not-somagic carpet ride to the space shuttle's unfortunate icicle.

Pozzles & Games • Stumped? Don’t worry, you can find the answers to all the puzzles on page 57.

Absolutely Everything! • Each month we feature an amazing story from world history taken from the...