What on Earth! Magazine

What on Earth! Magazine, published in partnership with Encyclopaedia Britannica, is the UK’s fastest-growing children’s magazine, helping curious kids fall in love with reading, knowledge and learning. Covering all their favourite topics – from space, animals and the natural world, to history, machines and inventions – each issue is bursting with amazing facts, photos, quizzes, puzzles, jokes and more!

FACTopia! • Follow the trail of crazily connected facts all the way from the real Dracula to… hairless Aztec dogs!

SNAP IT! • Astonishing photos from around the world

Eureka! • The latest astonishing discoveries, inventions and scientific breakthroughs.

How to chat… TASMANIAN DEVIL • Tasmanian devils are very territorial creatures that are only found in the wild on the Australian island of Tasmania. These feisty mammals will angrily defend their hunting patches from intruders. Their noises are usually growls, grumbles and shrieks, so get ready to be loud and fearless!

WORD up! • THIS MONTH: the strange and surprising origins of six famous expressions.

SUPER SENSES! • Let's take a deep dive into the world of animal senses to discover some of the amazing superpowers animals use each day to survive and thrive.

ELECTRORECEPTION

THERMAL VISION

PUZZLES & GAMES! • Inside this 12-page activity section, you will find quizzes to do, puzzles to solve and fun activities to try. And don't worry if you get stuck – all the answers are on page 34.

PICTURE QUIZ • Can you work out what you are looking at in each of these six photos?

HALLOWEEN WORD SEARCH • Can you spot the 20 spooky words hidden in our giant word search puzzle? Good luck!

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE • Can you spot all 20 differences between these two monstrous mansions?

ANSWERS

EYE DON'T BELIEVE IT! • Amazing optical illusions that trick your brain…

PHASES OF THE MOON! • Half of the Moon is always lit up by the Sun (except during a lunar eclipse). But as the Moon orbits Earth, which takes about 27 days, we see different amounts of sunlight reflected by the Moon. Learn about the Moon's phases from Britannica's Encyclopedia Infographica!

WHAT IS AN ECLIPSE? • When one space object, such as a planet or a moon, moves into the shadow of another space object, it is called an eclipse. There are two types of eclipse commonly seen from Earth: a solar eclipse and a lunar eclipse. Read on to discover when and how they occur.

MAP IT

THE BIG QUESTIONS?

SPOOKY SKELETON QUIZ! • Many people don't know bones by their scientific names, but it's useful and interesting to learn. Mr Bones has some of his major bones labelled. Can you fill in the blank ones using the clues below? Don't worry if you get stuck, the answers are on page 34.

DESERTS IN NUMBERS…

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Jokes & Riddles • Send your name, age and favourite joke to our jokes editor May at jokes@whatonearthmag.com If your joke is featured in a future issue of the magazine, you will WIN a copy of Secret FACTopia!