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 siege towers to an elephant's amazing sense of smell!

WHAT ON EARTH! • Astonishing photos from around the world

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

How to chat … FROG • If you ever find yourself near a pond, you might be lucky enough to hear a frog. The typical sound that we think of frogs making is ‘ribbit’, but many frogs don't make that noise at all!

SPORTS QUIZ! • Can you work out which sports are played on the six courts and pitches shown on this page? Find out if you got them all on page 49.

LET'S GO APE! • Join us on a journey to meet awesome apes and find out where they live, what they eat and the amazing things they can do!

PLANET OF THE APES

AMAZING APES

WORD up! • Your gateway to the fabulous land of linguistics and languages.

The Taj Mahal! • The Taj Mahal might look like a palace, but it's actually a mausoleum. That's a type of monument that is meant to be a burial place for someone who has died. This beautiful building was ordered to be built by Indian emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died in 1631. Let's take a look around…

Puzzles & Games • Stumped? Don't worry, you can find the answers to all the puzzles on page 49.

How to teach grown-ups about CLIMATE CHANGE

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

MOVING AT SPEED! • Since they were invented more than 200 years ago, trains and cars have become faster and faster - and faster! On these pages you can see a selection of record-breaking vehicles that have helped humans to zoom around the world at ever-increasing speeds.

How many planes are in the sky? • Humans are constantly on the move across the globe, but how many of us are travelling in the air at any one moment?

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!

Absolutely Everything! • Each month we feature an amazing story from world history taken from the bestselling book by Christopher Lloyd, with illustrations by Andy Forshaw. This month: The Enlightenment!

An epic display of dinosaurs!

PUZZLE ANSWERS

Jokes & Riddles • Tickle your ribs and tease your brain with our favourite gags and riddles, hand-picked by our jokes editor May.

What on Earth! Magazine