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.
THE PLANET KEPLER-413B wobbles like a SPINNING TOP. SOME KINDS OF APPLES ARE PINK ON THE INSIDE. Caribou release an odor from their ankles when threatened. Male kangaroos flex their arm muscles to impress females. HERDS OF BUFFALO-SIZE RODENTS ONCE ROAMED SOUTH AMERICA. Your glabella is the area of skin between your eyebrows. GIANT CUTTLEFISH have BAGEL-SHAPED BRAINS. One indoor soccer match in Alberta, Canada, lasted for 30 hours. A billboard in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, stretches the length of 9 basketball courts. CHECK OUT THE BOOK!…
OOH-WORTHY EYES The mantis shrimp might have the coolest eyes your eyes have ever seen. These crustaceans, which live in tropical and subtropical waters worldwide, hold the record for having the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom. Almost all animals have color receptors, which help them tell different colors apart. But these shrimp have more color receptors than other animals, including humans. That’s why only mantis shrimp can see a type of light that reflects special patterns off their shells. And that helps them find a mate or avoid a fight with another shrimp. These creatures are definitely something you have to see to believe. TOWER OF ICE-POP STICKS How many ice-pop sticks does it take to create the world’s tallest ice-pop-stick structure? Nearly 2,000 of them! With his…
1 Manatees related to elephants. 2 Polar bears have webbed feet that help them swim for long distances. 3 Sea otters have the thickest fur of any mammal. 4 One-half of a dolphin’s brain is always awake. 5 Male Steller sea lions sometimes blow bubbles to show who’s the boss. 6 Sometimes called sea canaries, beluga whales vocalize a lot—whistling, chirping, squealing, and even mooing.…
CHECK OUT THE BOOK! The Colorado Rockies baseball team chose a dinosaur as their mascot after workers found a TRICERATOPS skull while building the team’s stadium. The University of California, Santa Cruz, is home to the BANANA SLUGS. The BOLL WEEVIL—a beetle pest to cotton growers—is the mascot of the University of Arkansas at Monticello.…
Istanbul, Turkey Subway riders in this busy city often shared their trip with an unusual passenger: Boji the Anatolian shepherd mix! The dog would wait patiently on a station platform for the train doors to open, then find a seat until he was ready to, uh, debark. The stray dog has been well known to passengers on subway trains, trolleys, and ferries. Human riders would pet the friendly pup and leave food for him at different stops. “Boji always knew where he was going,” says photographer Chris McGrath, who spent a day following the dog. “He moved so fast—it was hard to keep up with him!” In 2021, city officials put a microchip tracker in Boji and found out the pooch passed through at least 29 stations each day. So…
It’s after midnight, and the Costa Rican beach seems deserted. But a poacher sneaks onto the sand, quickly digging into a green sea turtle nest and scooping up as many eggs as he can. He’s going to illegally sell them to make money. But scientists know something the thief doesn’t: One of the eggs is fake; a tracking device had been planted inside of it just a few hours earlier. Dressed in all-black to avoid being seen, researchers had hidden the decoy egg inside this turtle nest, hoping a poacher would steal it. Now that one has, the scientists can track who’s poaching the eggs, where the eggs travel—and where they end up. POACHING PROBLEM Some people pay big bucks for sea turtle eggs, even though buying and selling them…
