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.
Some ancient Romans rubbed on their faces to soften their skin. IT WOULD TAKE A SPACESHIP ABOUT 450 MILLION YEARS TO REACH THE EDGE OF OUR GALAXY. ABOUT 30,000 HOURS OF NEW VIDEOS ARE POSTED TO YOUTUBE EVERY HOUR. A GROUP OF GOATS IS CALLED A TRIP. PINK IS SO MY COLOR. SOME GRASSHOPPERS ARE PINK. FLASHES OF LIGHT SOMETIMES APPEAR IN THE SKY BEFORE AND DURING EARTHQUAKES. An emu’s body contains enough oil to fill 3 milk jugs. An Italian designer made a COUCH shaped like a CHOCOLATE BAR. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…
FRUITY FOOD These animals don’t hunt large prey. Instead, they eat small animals, vegetation, and fruits. Maned wolves enjoy a fruit called lobeira so much that it’s known as the “fruit of the wolf.” BACK OFF! When threatened, these animals raise their mane—long hairs on their neck and back—to look larger. FOX ON STILTS? That’s the maned wolf’s nickname—even though it’s neither fox nor wolf but its own type of canid. And the stilts? Long legs help these critters peek over tall savanna grass and reach fruit in trees. STINKY SPOTS To keep other maned wolves away, mates mark termite mounds and small hills with smelly urine and poo. KNOCK, KNOCK Maned wolves will tap the ground with their foot to startle rodents and rabbits out of their burrows.…
SUPER-FURRY RABBIT Haircut … what’s that? With her nearly 15-inch-long hairs, Franchesca the Angora rabbit holds the record for the longest fur on a rabbit. One benefit is that she always has a cozy fur coat for the winter. The problem? According to owner Betty Chu, Franchesca is sometimes mistaken for a dog! PUZZLE PEOPLE Jigsaw puzzle pieces come in many different shapes and colors. This one’s orange—and made up of people! Some 1,700 people in Greece, most wearing orange sweatshirts, gathered to break the record for the largest human jigsaw puzzle piece. To show people where to stand, organizers drew the jigsaw piece’s shape in the grass. Then the puzzle participants took their places. Way to keep it together. GIANT CUPCAKE What weighs more than one ton and tastes delish?…
1 Giant energy storms on the sun can cause electrical blackouts on Earth. 2 Scientists think more than 200 billion suns are in the Milky Way galaxy. 3 The sun’s core temperature can be hotter than 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. 4 More than a million Earths could fit inside the sun. 5 Scientists created a spacecraft that could fly into the sun’s atmosphere without burning up. 6 Experts think that the sun once had rings, like those around Saturn. 7 The sun is more than 4.6 billion years old.…
THE RARE MONKEY ORCHID LOOKS LIKE A MONKEY’S FACE. THE “DARTH VADER” PLANT GETS ITS NICKNAME FROM ITS FLOWER, WHICH RESEMBLES VADER’S MASK. THE WHITE EGRET ORCHID LOOKS LIKE AN EGRET IN FLIGHT. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…
Dog ‘Plays’ With Octopus Onrus, South Africa Dogs love to play with tennis balls. This octopus might, too! Lucy the border collie and her owners were walking alongside tidal pools when their tennis ball rolled into the water. Lucy tried to pick it up but stopped when she noticed a long, purple arm wrap around the ball—an octopus had grabbed her toy! “Lucy looked at us like she was asking us what to do next,” owner Almar Creighton says. Marine biologist Jenny Hofmeister says that octopuses are naturally curious and often check out new and unfamiliar objects. “At first, the octopus might have thought the ball was food,” she says. “But by tasting the ball with its suckers, the octopus would’ve quickly figured out it was something else.” The octopus played with the…
