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 Alexander the Great's journey under the sea to… slime-eating flies!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

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

How to chat… MEERKAT • Meerkats are incredibly social. While basking in the sun in the Kalahari desert in Africa, meerkats take turns to speak. They have different warnings for different predators and can even let others know how close the danger is.

wORD uP! • LOST LETTERS: Meet the letters that have disappeared from our alphabet.

VIDEO GAMES IN NUMBERS…

Amazing animal homes! • Take a tour of some of the most extraordinary structures built by mammals, birds and insects.

THE WORLD OF PYRAM IDS • Experience the wonder of pyramids as we find out the answers to all your questions, including who built these amazing structures, how they they did it, where you can find them – and more!

INSIDE A PYRAMID! • Built more than 4,500 years ago by the Egyptian King Khufu, the Great Pyramid is a true wonder of the ancient world. Here we look inside to reveal some of its hidden secrets…

AMAZING PYRAMIDS!

MAP IT • HOW DEEP IS THE EARTH? This map shows that the distance from Earth's crust to its core is about the same as the distance from Sweden to the middle of Africa!

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 38.

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

LIFE IN THE RAINFORESTS! • Home to an incredible diversity of life, rainforests are among our planet's most important habitats. In fact, more than half of all plant and animal species live in rainforests, even though rainforests cover just six per cent of Earth's land surface. Let's explore this amazing habitat and the animals that live there…

10 facts about PIZZA! • Do you have a hunger for food facts? Then sink your teeth into these deliciously interesting things to know about pizza.

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: Protestantism and the Pilgrim Fathers

Gutenberg's printing press

The Mayflower's epic voyage to America

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