National Geographic Kids magazine - the perfect balance between learning and fun! A must-have for children ages 6 and up. Each issue is packed with colorful photos, games, puzzles, fun features and facts about animals, science, technology, and more.
Check out these outrageous facts. BABIES HAVE TASTE BUDS IN THEIR CHEEKS. SPIDER SILK IS USED TO MAKE FISHING NETS IN SOME COUNTRIES. THE HUMAN BODY CONTAINS A TINY AMOUNT OF GOLD. EARLY LACROSSE MATCHES HAD UP TO 2000 PLAYERS. AT FRANCE’S ANNUAL PIG-SQUEALING CHAMPIONSHIPS, PEOPLE IMITATE THE ANIMALS WITH SQUEALS, GRUNTS, AND SNUFFLES. A HORSE FROM MISSOURI IS SO SMALL SHE SLEEPS IN A DOGHOUSE. CHECK OUT THE BOOK! BUILDERS OF JAPAN’S NIJO CASTLE CREATED SQUEAKY FLOORS TO PREVENT STEALTHY INTRUDERS. FINLAND HOLDS AN ANNUAL CELL-PHONE-THROWING CONTEST. A VOLCANIC ERUPTION 2 MILLION YEARS AGO LEFT A HOLE AS BIG AS RHODE ISLAND.…
MORE PASTA, PLEASE! Think she saved room for dessert? Michelle Lesco holds the record for fastest time to eat a bowl of pasta, finishing a plateful of noodles in less than 27 seconds. That’s 14 seconds faster than the previous record. Lesco is not a picky eater—she also holds records for fastest time to eat a hot dog with no hands and most mayonnaise eaten in three minutes. Um, yum? “cat”-Itude Is everythIng. SUPER-LONG CAT Make room for this feline. Measuring 47 inches from his nose to the tip of his tail, Barivel holds the record for the longest house cat. He’s as long as a seven-year-old kid is tall! Barivel can leap over some fences and slide mail off his owner’s kitchen counter while standing. Maybe he dreams about extralong mice.…
I’M NOT SAYING WHO, BUT ONE OF US NEEDS A BATH. BUSH BABY HABITAT Forest treetops in Africa WEIGHT 2½ to 32 ounces CRYBABY A bush baby’s cry sounds similar to the wails of a human baby. SUPERSIZE EYES These animals have large eyes that help them see better in the dark. Nairobi, Kenya How can you tell that Dina the yellow baboon and Bushy the bush baby are BFFs? They’re always giving each other bear hugs—even when they’re on the move. Bushy often wraps her arms around the baboon’s tummy and holds on upside down as Dina crawls around their enclosure at the Nairobi Animal Orphanage. The critters bonded after arriving at the reserve as infants. “Now Dina acts as Bushy’s mom,” says Edward Kariuki, an orphanage veterinarian. The…
THIS WATER BEAR HAS BEEN MAGNIFIED 666 TIMES! 1 A microscopic animal called a water bear can survive temperatures as low as minus 328°F. 2 Birds see colors invisible to humans. 3 Earth’s air contains tiny bits of diamonds from space. 4 A sneeze shoots out more than 40,000 particles from the nose and mouth. 5 When a waterdrop hits a puddle, it bounces like a ball until it’s absorbed. 6 Light travels 18 million times faster than the speed of rain. 7 Each gecko foot has half a million tiny bristles for gripping on to surfaces such as walls.…
Dog Digs Up Mammoth Tooth I’M GLAD I DON’T HAVE MAMMOTH HAIR STUCK IN MY TEETH. Whidbey Island, Washington Scout the Labrador retriever is a puppy paleontologist: The dog sniffed out a 13,000-year-old woolly mammoth tooth in his owner’s backyard! At first owner Kirk Lacewell thought the six-inch-long fossilized chomper was a rock. “Then it hit me that dogs don’t usually carry rocks around,” he says. Lacewell emailed photos to the University of Washington’s Burke Museum, where a paleontologist immediately recognized the object as part of a mammoth molar. A relative of today’s elephants, woolly mammoths lived in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States between 10,000 and 100,000 years ago. “So mammoth fossils are fairly common in this part of the country,” museum curator Greg Wilson says. Lacewell…
A young koala scrambles up a eucalyptus tree. It’s not trying to grab one of the tasty leaves it loves snacking on—it’s trying to get away from the flames and smoke swirling in the forest beneath it. Earlier this year and in late 2019, a record number of wildfires raged through woodland habitats in Australia, destroying many of the trees koalas live in and rely on for food. The fires burned across some 65,000 square miles, an area the size of Florida. Reports show that more than 8,000 koalas might have been killed in these fires, alongside hundreds of millions of other animals. Koalas aren’t endangered, but they face many other threats in addition to wildfires. Starvation, dog attacks, car accidents, and disease have also put the fuzzy mammals in…
