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 a blood-red waterfall… to a shipwreck-exploring robot!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

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

How to chat… FISH • You might not think of fish as being too chatty. But schools of fish can make a real racket! Here are some of the noisiest fish from around the world.

WORD up! • THIS MONTH: amazing alphabets!

YUCK! • Hold your nose as we celebrate 10 of the stinkiest things on Earth.

CLASH OF THE DINOSAURS! • FROM RAZOR-SHARP CLAWS TO TOWERING TAILS, DINOSAURS EVOLVED TO WIN AN EPIC BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL. SO WHICH DINOSAURS HAD THE EDGE - AND WHY? LET'S FIND OUT…

ICE CREAM!

PUZZLES & GAMES! • Inside this 16-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 42.

TREASURE HUNT! • Can you spot these 20 things hidden in the picture below? Plus, figure out what the 10 hidden letters spell.

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

Where are we in the universe? • The observable universe is about 93 billion light years in diameter, which is mind-bogglingly big! Here's where to find planet Earth.

20 machines that changed the world! • Join us on a fascinating journey through time, as we celebrate some of history's most ingenious inventions

WE ARE ALL ANIMALS • Humans are animals, too! Join us as we explore the amazing ways we are just like them.

SPORTS QUIZ! • Can you work out which water-based activities are represented by the illustrations on this page? Turn to page 42 to see if you got them all!

THINK DIFFERENT! • Original people who changed the world.

Every second… • Have you ever wondered what all the people on Earth are up to? At any one moment, lots of them are laughing, cycling or even reading a magazine (just like you). Here's an estimate of how many times various things are happening, on average, every single second of the day.

MAP IT

BOOKS IN NUMBERS…

THE BIG QUESTIONS?

BUBBLE UP! • Summer's here – so it's the perfect time to get outdoors and have some soapy, bubbly fun! Try our top ‘bubble juice’ recipe and learn how to make giant bubbles!

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Jokes & Riddles • Send your name, age and favourite joke to our jokes editor May at jokes@whatonearth.co.uk. If your joke is featured in a future issue of the magazine, you will WIN a copy of Secret FACTopia!