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 throwing poo out of the window… to peeing in the shower!

WHAT ON EARTH! • Astonishi ng photos from around the world

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

How to chat… BEES • Bees are well known for the buzzing sound that they make. The sound is made by their wings, which can beat up to 230 times per second! Bees also have a few other ways of communicating - they make noises and some of them also dance!

20 OLYMPIC MOMENT S! • As the Olympic Games are held in Paris, France, we relive some of the most inspiring, surprising and memorable moments in Olympic history.

99 GROSS FACTS • Hold your nose - and prepare to be horrified, revolted and amazed - as we take a deep dive into all things disgusting and gross.

WHAT IS POO MADE OF?

MAP IT • AUSTRALIA IS BIG! The map below shows just how big. Australia is coloured yellow and other countries shown to the same scale have been placed on top in green.

LET'S PLAY! • SUMMER ACTIVITY SPECIAL

GET YOUR BRAIN BUZZING • Are you ready for the summer holidays? Inside this special 16-page activity pull-out, you will find quiz questions to answer, tricky puzzles to solve and fun activities that will keep you and your family entertained for hours! And don't worry if you get stuck - all the answers are on page 42.

Learn how to make your own… ICE CREAM! • No ice-cream maker? No problem! Cool down on those hot summer days with a refreshing ice cream made by hand!

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

TREASURE HUNT! • Can you spot these 22 things hidden in the picture below? Plus, figure out what the 7 hidden letters sp ell. Clue: it's a summer activity. Don't worry if you get stuck -all the answers are revealed on page 42.

SUMMER WORD SEARCH • Can you spot the 20 words associated with summer holidays in our jumbo word search puzzle? Good luck!

How to make delightfully disgusting… SLIME! • Prepare to gross out your friends and family as you learn how to create your own sticky slime. Plus, discover the fascinating science of slime and the reasons why it gets to feel so slimy!

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE • Can you spot all 20 differences between these two zoological illustrations?

ANSWERS

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

GET SET FOR OUTER SPACE! • Find out how training and preparations for the latest space missions to the Moon and Mars are starting right here on planet Earth.

GLACIERS • IN NUMBERS…

Biggest beasts of the land and sky • The heaviest land animal on Earth today is the elephant, and the tallest is the giraffe. But in prehistoric times even larger animals roamed the planet and soared in the sky. Over the next eight pages, you can see how the giants of the animal kingdom - both those alive today and those long extinct - measure up.

Giants of the sea • The sea is home to billions of organisms - some of them enormous! Here are some of the biggest underwater creatures, from the giant spider crab that lives off Japan's Pacific coast, to the biggest animal of them all, the blue whale (on the next page), whose heart alone is the size of a small...