Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2025, Issue 128 i Eco Kids Planet Magazine

Hi there, Eco Kids! I’m a piglet squid – and before you ask, yes, I am a real squid. I don’t do much fast swimming or jetting about like my cousins. I’m more of a float-and-drift kind of squid. And I’ve got a round, jiggly body and a face that (apparently!) looks a bit like a piglet. Rude, but fair. I also float around upside down – I know it looks funny, but it helps me stay balanced. I live far beneath the waves, in the twilight and midnight zones – places where sunlight never reaches, the pressure could squash a car, and the water’s barely above freezing! Down here, I drift slowly through the darkness with the help of my special buoyancy sac – it’s like an inbuilt floaty…

Amy: People often say we know more about the moon than our own ocean. Simon: Yep. We’ve mapped the moon’s surface in amazing detail. Amy: But we know much less about our ocean’s deepest parts. Well, there’s only so much money available for exploring. Which is most important to explore, then: the deep sea or outer space? Rhona: The deep sea! There’s more life in the ocean than anywhere else on Earth. But we’ve found no definite sign of life in outer space. Simon: Only because we haven’t explored it enough! Charlie: I say the deep sea – I want to chat with more creatures from the depths! Simon: Come on, outer space has exploding stars and black holes. There’s even a planet in our galaxy that might be made…

Don’t you LOVE exploring the sea? All its mysteries, its secrets and hidden treasures, plus the amazing underwater life crawling across the ocean floor and swimming in the deepest of its depths, no matter the doomy darkness, no matter the freezing cold, no matter the crushing pressure! These courageous creatures are not about the easy life – they like to live on the edge of EXTREMES. Some of them have truly jaw-dropping skills, others have extra body parts and some even have superhero powers to protect themselves from hungry predators. Let’s dive into a few of their coolest tricks… BRILLIANT BIOLUMINESCENCE Imagine never being scared of the dark! That sure is the case when you’ve got a BUILT-IN NIGHTLIGHT! Deep-sea dwellers sometimes face a whole life in the darkness, the…

All life needs the SUN, right? Er, no! In the deepest parts of the ocean, there is NO light, hardly any oxygen, and the temperature drops to just 3°C. Plants cannot grow in this cold, watery darkness – but, amazingly, other life thrives here! Scientists keep discovering strange and surprising creatures in the deep, many of them completely new to science. Wow! How do they do it? This is not a place humans can easily visit. In fact, more people have travelled into space than have been to the very bottom of the ocean. But new technology means there are now underwater vehicles that can visit places that are impossible for humans to reach… Let’s take a look at some remarkable habitats in the dark depths of the vast, mysterious…

RHONA REPORTS! N0. 65 And don’t forget about me – Rusty! Rhona’s helper: JD Savage EPIC ADVENTURES! From Cornwall to France and Devon to Ireland, the Cornish Seal Sanctuary’s rescued seal pups are on the move! As another busy pup rescue season wraps up, a brilliant new GPS tagging project is tracking their progress and adventures at sea. Each year, the sanctuary rescues pups who are sick, injured or abandoned, and gives them expert care until they’re strong enough to return to UK waters. But until now, no one really knew what happened to them once they swam off into the waves. The GPS tags are safely attached to their fur with a special glue and naturally fall off when the seals moult between December and April. The very first…

Charlie: I’ve come to Monterey Bay, one of North America’s closest-to-the-shore deep ocean environments. A lanternfish is one of the many deep-sea creatures I’ve always wanted to interview – and lots live here. But how could I interview any deep-sea animals? I’m no diver – and it’s unsafe for me to go down so deep. Well, I came up with a way – and I don’t even have to get wet. I’m sending a robot! I stay up on the ship while my remotecontrolled robot buddy here dives down to as deep as 1,000 metres into the ocean’s dark, spooky ‘twilight zone’. It’s got my face on a waterproof display screen and it has speakers, so the animals can see and hear me. The robot also streams them right back…

WHO’S WHO IN THE DEEP BLUE? Across: 6. Legendary sea monster based on a real-life colossal creature (6) 8. Deep-sea shark with a long snout to sense its next snack (6,5) 9. This creepy creature dangles a glowing lure to trap its prey (10) 11. Deep-sea fish with glowing spots that act like fairy lights (11) 12. An octopus with earlike fins that flaps through the water (5) Down: 1. Lives on whale bones and has no mouth or 2. The world’s deepest-swimming fish, soft and squishy like jelly (9) 3 Escapes predators by oozing oodles of slime (7) 4. A pinkish deep-sea cucumber that trots along the muddy seabed (6) 5. A fish that looks like melting ice cream – but only at the surface (8) 7. Tiny crustacean…

For this month’s competition, we want you to dive into your imagination and write a short story (150–200 words) about a mysterious sea creature. Maybe it’s a tentacled beast that guards a sunken ship… Or a misunderstood sea monster who just wants a friend. Will your creature be spooky, silly or secretly heroic? It’s up to you! Let your deep-sea story unfold in the darkest depths of the ocean. Bonus points for including strange sounds, glowing lights or an unexpected twist! Four lucky readers will win a brilliant new book by one of our very own writers! 4 TO WIN! Earth’s New Animals by Christine Modafferi, illustrated by Harriet Hobday Meet some of the newest creatures on the planet! Scientists discover up to a thousand new animals every year –…