Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2024 i National Geographic Kids

This cat video was prerecorded on Earth before being transmitted across space. Scientists added graphics over the video that show the position of the spacecraft (the maroon mark on the dotted line) plus silly info like the cat’s heart rate. Cat Video in Space! Deep Space This funny cat video is out of this world. A kitty named Taters starred in the first video sent from deep space—the part of space that starts just beyond the moon. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which uses robotics to explore space, wanted to test the possibility of using a laser to transmit ultra-high-definition video across deep space. So Taters’s owner, a NASA employee, recorded the tabby chasing (what else?) a laser. Then the team put the video file onto a spacecraft that NASA launched to…

An arctic hare can leap nearly seven feet in one jump. Arctic foxes can be white, brown, or even bluish gray. Its color depends on the season. An arctic fox doubles the thickness of its coat during winter. Why do animals shed their fur? Many mammals need thick fur to stay toasty in winter and thin fur to keep chill in summer. So sort of like you do when the seasons change, they switch up coats. But instead of wearing a heavier or lighter jacket, animals shed their fur to make room for a new coat. Changes in the amount of sunlight in the fall and spring trigger the animal to lose old hair and grow a new coat that’s right for the season. For some critters, shedding helps them…

Near a murky river that cuts through what’s now southeastern Utah, a dinosaur longer than two school buses checks out its surroundings. The 40,000-pound creature is watching for predators, ready to use its strong, whiplike tail to defend itself. Once it feels safe, the prehistoric plant-eater lumbers toward nearby bushes for a snack. Some 150 million years later, paleontologists dug up part of this dino, a new sauropod species that’s yet to be named. (Sauropods are long-necked, plant-eating dinosaurs.) “Discovering a dinosaur is only the first step in a long journey,” paleontologist Luis Chiappe says. “Getting its bones from a dig site to a museum where more people can learn about the animal takes a lot of time and effort.” Keep reading to discover how scientists assembled the massive skeleton…

All aboard the OceanXplorer, a high-tech research vessel. Scientists and adventurers lived on this ship while it sailed across the globe on a mission to uncover ocean secrets. Check out thrilling tales from the expedition. 1 SHARK SIGHTING Azores, islands in the Atlantic Ocean Marine biologist Melissa Márquez studies sharks and their relatives. “We’re hoping to tag a bluntnose sixgill shark, a species few people have ever seen in the wild. First, we’ll need to lure a sixgill close enough to our submarine to tag it. “We attach bait to the outside of our sub. But when a shark finally appears, she only snacks on the fishy bits that flaked off and are floating away from our vehicle. “Later, two more sixgills arrive. The sharks start to fight over the food, and…

Monster Match These 10 monster diners have inspired the restaurant chefs. Match each of the diners to the station in the kitchen where their meal is being made. BONUS: Find 13 forks. ANSWERS ON THE RIGHT Answers: WHAT IN THE WORLD? ORANGE YOU GLAD? These photos show close-up views of things that are orange. Unscramble the letters to identify what’s in each picture. ANSWERS BELOW Answers: Top row: fish, crosswalksign, orange. Middle row: carrots, goldenliontamarin, coral. Bottom row: trafficcones, seastar, papaya. Animal BLOOPERS Animals make mistakes, too! BYALLYSON SHAW Eastern gray kangaroo RANGE Eastern Australia SLIPUP SPOT Yuraygir National Park, Australia PHOTO FAIL When a joey is about nine months old, it starts taking short trips outside of Mom’s pouch. But this little cutie discovered that getting in and out of the pouch…

High Kick Male Kottigehar dancing frogs are only about an inch long. To stand out in rocky streams in Indian forests, these frogs lift and shake their back legs inamovecalled foot-flagging. The message to other males? Back off! That’s a Wrap Male adders in Europe and Asia wrestle each other for a mate. Scientists call the move the “dance of the adders.” We call it a snake smackdown. Winging It The synchronized steps of redcrowned cranes help keep these birds bonded for life. In pairs, the East Asian cranes bow, bob their heads, and run together with their wings outstretched in a romantic ballet. Strut Their Stuff If a female blue-footed booby likes the color of a male’s feet—the bluer, the better!—she joins him in a high-stepping strut. Then the…

1 Most Dangerous This dinosaur wasn’t the largest predator, but it might have been smart—its brain was twice the size of other dinosaurs’ noodles. Brains plus brawn made it a feared predator of its time. 2 Smallest Predator Less than three feet from nose to tail, this scrappy creature had knifelike teeth that chomped on insects and other small critters. 3 Best Defense This plant-eater’s armored plates and pointy spikes protected it from the bites of predators. Plus, it had a clubbed tail to beat off attackers. 4 Largest Predator One monstrous meat-eater was bad enough. But these 45-foot-long creatures might have hunted in packs, which allowed them to take down large prey. 5 Loudest Dinosaur This plant-eater’s teeth and claws weren’t sharp enough to defend itself with. So it…

An 18-month-old chimpanzee cowers with a rope tied around his waist. A poacher has killed his mother and brought him to this small village, away from the chimp’s forest home. In a nearby community, a 20-monthold chimp has also lost her mother to poachers. The wildlife thieves want to sell these young apes into the illegal pet trade. Just in time, rangers from the Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo find the poachers and rescue the chimps. But the infants are unwell: Lonely and scared, they’ve likely eaten nothing but bananas and sugarcane, which doesn’t give them the nutrients they need. Without proper care, the chimps won’t survive. IN THE AIR The rangers contact Lwiro Primates Rehabilitation Center to help these chimps, now named Felix and…