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 International Space Station… to a museum of invisible things!

WHAT ON EARTH! • Astonishing photos from around the world

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

How to chat… GORILLA • These great apes live in Africa in small groups. Each group is protected by a large silverback male. Gorillas are known for being gentle and can show some human-like emotions. However, they can still be very dangerous!

WORD UP! • Your guide to the wonderful world of linguistics and languages. This month: amazing adjectives!

GAMES QUIZ! • Can you work out which games are played with the tables, boards and equipment shown on this page? Find out if you got them all on page 49.

KILLER PLANTS! • Prepare to explore the strange – and surprisingly dangerous – world of flowers and plants.

MEET THE MEAT-EATERS! • From the famous Venus flytrap to the lesser-known corkscrew plant, let's take a look at some of the most interesting types of carnivorous plants – and how and what they eat!

8 CARNIVOROUS PLANTS

DANGEROUS PLANTS!

CELEBRATING THE SOLSTICE!

Puzzles & Games • Stumped? Don't worry, you can find the answers to all the puzzles on page 48.

Picture Quiz • Can you work out what you are looking at in each of these seven photos?

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

Extended Families • Ten animals that produce a large number of offspring in one go

PICTURE THIS! • Amazing information about our universe brought to life by infographics.

The largest known star in the universe! • Our Sun might seem big to us, but it's actually pretty average-sized compared to other stars. Some stars are smaller than the Sun. Some are bigger. And some are MUCH bigger. One of the biggest that astronomers have ever seen is UY Scuti, a hypergiant star near the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Here's what it would look like if we put UY Scuti and our Sun next to each other.

You are made of stars! • Your body is made of different chemical elements, such as oxygen and carbon. Where did these elements come from in the first place? Well, some of them were created inside exploding stars! Other elements in your body could have been created in the Big Bang itself. So, as you're about to discover, you really are made of stars.

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!

EYES IN NUMBERS…

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 birth of Islam.

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PUZZLE ANSWERS

Secret fact of the month

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Jokes & Riddles