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.
QUEENS, A SERIES ABOUT ANIMAL MOMS, IS ON DISNEY+. A species of PEACOCK SPIDER is nicknamed SPARKLEMUFFIN. A HONEYBEE HAS THE SAME NUMBER OF HAIRS AS A SQUIRREL: 3 MILLION. SNAILS SMELL WITH THEIR LIPS. THE SUN HAS HOLES IN IT. ELEPHANT MOMS COVER THEIR YOUNG IN A “SUNSCREEN” OF DUST AND MUD. SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED A PROTEIN THAT CAN PREVENT ICE CREAM FROM MELTING QUICKLY IN HOT WEATHER. A MUSEUM IN OREGON HAS A COLLECTION OF 300 VACUUMS. There are approximately 3 trillion (3,000,000,000,000) trees on Earth.…
Why did so many cultures build pyramids? Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza was the world’s tallest building for nearly 4,000 years. It’s just smart design! So many historical cultures used the same idea because of the shape’s stability: A pyramid is the best way to build a tall stone structure that won’t fall down. (Stone was a main building material for historical cultures.) The ancient Egyptians constructed the world’s tallest pyramid, but they weren’t the only historical people to use this design. Pyramid-shaped monuments, temples, and tombs have also been built in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and some islands in the Pacific Ocean. Many people came up with the same concept, even though they lived far apart and at different times. Turns out, a good idea goes a long way.…
TEENY-TINY REPTILE Discovering the world’s smallest reptile required some really powerful peepers. This blotchy-brown nano-chameleon doesn’t change colors, so it’s hard to spot on the rainforest floor in Madagascar, the country where it lives. About the size of a sunflower seed, the chameleon snacks on even smaller insects by nabbing them with its fast-moving tongue. Bugs, beware. SPEEDY SKATER Mirko Hanssen earned this record hands down … and feet up. Traveling about half the length of a pro soccer field in 8.55 seconds, Hanssen set the record for the fastest 50 meters (164 feet) hand skating, a sport he invented. Timekeepers kept others away from his path—the daredevil can see only a few feet ahead when he’s upside down. BIG BOT You definitely won’t overlook this attraction in Yokohama, Japan. About…
1 The yellow flowers of the common evening primrose smell like lemons. 2 One rare Asian plant blooms underground. 3 To attract a mate, the male bowerbird builds a structure decorated with flowers. 4 Scientists think flowers first bloomed 130 million years ago. 5 An astronaut grew a sunflower on the International Space Station. 6 Frogs help pollinate the Brazilian milk fruit tree when they dive into its bell-shaped flowers to slurp nectar. 7 Archaeologists found 1,800-year-old bouquets under a pyramid in Mexico honoring a snake god.…
A VERY QUICK TRIP Want to go to the moon for the weekend? How about Mars? Check out how long it would take to tour the universe if you traveled at light speed. SPEED OF LIGHT: 186,282 MILES A SECOND MOON: 1.5 SECONDS VENUS: 2 MINUTES MARS: 4 MINUTES JUPITER: 30 MINUTES SATURN: 1 HOUR NEPTUNE: 4 HOURS PLUTO: 5.5 HOURS Ready to see the edge of the observable universe? Travel at light speed and you’ll get there in 13.8 BILLION YEARS. Good luck taking that much time off from school! CHECK OUT THE…
This Dad Rocks Valley Park, Missouri Murphy the rescued bald eagle treated his egg just like any dutiful dad would. He carefully sat on it for weeks, sometimes turning it to keep it warm. But the “egg” was actually … a rock. Bald eagles in human care sometimes try to incubate things other than eggs, so Murphy’s rock egg wasn’t a total surprise. And when an injured bald eagle chick arrived at the World Bird Sanctuary where Murphy lives, keepers swapped out Murphy’s rock for the eaglet. For three months, the foster father taught the eaglet to eat, hunt, and keep his feathers clean. Thanks to Murphy’s care, the youngster was soon released back into the wild. “If we get another one,” says Kira Klebe, the sanctuary’s hospital director, “we’ll…
