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		November 2006 The Truth Behind the New Movie Happy Feet Can real penguins sing and dance like the ones in this animated film? Find out here.



		October 2006 Animal Ghosts Some people believe the spirits of these creatures are still here. Do they really exist?



		September 2006 Global Safari Trek along seven continents with these animal photos, videos, and more!



		August 2006 Culture Trek: Papua New Guinea Hang out with the Huli tribe. Learn why Huli boys and men maintain "perfect" hair. See a photo gallery of different people from Papua New Guinea, and then watch two videos showing people following traditional ways of life: boating, hunting, and cooking on an open fire.



		June/July 2006 Cool Things About Elephants Elephants—oddly-built animals with a complex social life—fascinate scientists. Here are surprising elephant stories, photos, videos, Web links, and more.



		May 2006 Birth Year Animal Chinese tradition says a different animal represents each new year. Which is your animal? Find out here.



		April 2006 7 Cool Stories About Animals' Sense of Humor Did you ever get the feeling your dog was laughing at you? New research suggests maybe he was! Dogs make "huffing" noises scientists think is doggie laughter. Gorillas, chimps, orangutans, and rats are also known to laugh. Does laughter mean sense of humor? No one knows for sure yet, but researchers are working to answer the question. Check out these seven stories and decide for yourself if the animals' antics mean they find things funny!



		March 2006 Silly Pet Tricks Most cats avoid water, but Ice Breaker the Bengal house cat can't get enough of the wet stuff. This water-friendly feline surfs small waves along the South Florida coastline. Click here to check out Ice Breaker the surfing cat and eight other amazing animals.



		February 2006 Do Animals Love Each Other? First of all, love means something different to everyone, making it hard to define. Second, there are many types of love, including the kind between parents and children, among siblings, and with couples. But the biggest problem is that animals can't tell us how they feel, and scientists can't set up experiments to find out. All we have to go by is our interpretation of an animal's facial expressions, vocalizations, body language, and behavior. Here are eight stories that suggest that some animals may be capable of loving each other. Click here to read more about animals and love.



		December 2005/January 2006 Tsunami! One year after disaster, a region rebuilds. Click here to read more about tsunamis, including maps and photos.



		October 2005 Aye-Ayes: Creatures of the Night The aye-aye's odd-looking fingers, pointy teeth, big eyes, and huge ears give some people the creeps. Seeing an aye-aye is considered very bad luck to many superstitious residents of Madagascar, the African island country where these animals live in the wild. In parts of the country, people kill aye-ayes on sight, hoping to prevent anything "evil" from happening. The aye-aye's bad reputation isn't helped by the fact that it's active only at night, when things can seem a lot scarier to people. The truth about this five-pound animal, a type of lemur, is that it's harmless. Click here to read more from "The Aye-Ayes of Madagascar."



		September 2005 The Future: Living in a Totally Techno World There are computers practically everyplace you look, but you don't realize it. Ads on the street, personalized to your interests, appear on computer screen billboards as you walk by. At home, computer displays are invisible until you need them—camouflaged in your desk, the wall, or a mirror. When you're on the go, paper-thin monitors fold to fit in your pocket. Click here to read more from "The Future: Living in a Totally Techno World."



		August 2005 King Tut's Mysterious Death King Tutankhamun's army just lost a major battle. His subjects could be facing a terrible plague. Egypt's king probably has a lot on his mind as he goes to bed for the night. Suddenly someone leaps out of the shadows and strikes the king with a fatal blow to the back of the head. Tut's nine-year reign comes to a quick and mysterious end. Click here to read more about King Tut.



		June/July 2005 10 Cool Things About Dolphins Some people say dolphins are extremely intelligent. Others think these warm-blooded animals are no smarter than dogs or cats. Measuring dolphin intelligence is difficult, since dolphins use their big brains in a much different way than humans do.



		May 2005 Rock Stars What does your favorite crystal or gem reveal about you? Check out birthstones, crystals, and gems, pick your favorite, and learn some insight into you!



		April 2005 Naked Animals Without fur or hair, most animals would be pretty uncomfortable. That's because a furry covering shields mammals' bodies from the weather, keeping them warm and dry—sort of like your clothes do for you. Of the 5,000 kinds of wild mammals, only a few are nearly hairless. These creatures developed other ways to thrive comfortably. Check out these animals and their near nakedness!



		March 2005 Koala Bears: The Great Koala Rescue These Australian marsupials get a second chance at survival when caring people find ways to help them. To read more about koalas and to see a video of them in action, click here.



		February 2005 Find Your Birth Year Animal According to the Chinese calendar, the year you were born may determine your personality. Every year is represented by an animal, and legend has it that people born under that animal have certain personality traits. Click here to find your birth year animal!



		November 2004 SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Find out what's real and what's fishy in this new flick. Click here to find out more.



		October 2004 Wizards of the Sea There are wizards in our oceans. They don't look like the wizards that you know from Harry Potter movies, but they've got many of the same tricks. These wizards are octopuses. They can change shape, disappear in a puff of smoke, go invisible, use potions and poisons, dissolve into the ground, and put on spectacular color displays. Click here to find out more about octopuses!



		September 2004 Endangered Cultures People all over the world struggle to preserve their traditions, which are often connected to animals. Click here to find out more!



		July 2004 Smart Animals! These unforgettable stories reveal evidence of animal intelligence. To read more about dolphins, elephants, and other clever animals, click here!



		June 2004 Lightning! Clouds suddenly appeared on the horizon, the sky turned dark, and it started to rain as Sabrina was hiking through the Grand Canyon with her parents. As lightning flashed around them, Sabrina and her parents ran for cover. "When it stopped raining, we thought it was safe," says Sabrina. They started to hike back to their car along the trail. Then zap! A lightning bolt struck nearby. It happened so fast that the family didn't know what it hit. A jolt of electricity shot through their bodies. Click here to read more about lightning!



		May 2004 Flying Sharks Racing upward from the depths, a great white shark suddenly bursts from the water, launching itself into the air. The "flying" shark's target? A Cape fur seal swimming at the surface of False Bay—off the coast of South Africa. An attacking great white shark can cut through the water at 35 miles (56 kilometers) an hour—seven times faster than the best Olympic swimmer. Learn more about sharks and watch video of these predators jumping out of the water!



		April 2004 8 Animal Rascals "What's going on here?" wondered Peggy Williams of Hinckley, New York. Her cats' water dish looked muddy, and all their food was gone—again! That night Williams was watching television when a mother raccoon crawled through the cat door. Ignoring the astonished woman, the masked intruder paraded her four babies right into Williams' kitchen. Click here to find out more and watch video of animal rascals in action!



		March 2004 Earthquake! The people of Northridge, California, will never forget the morning the ground started to shake, rattle, and roll. It was 4:30 a.m. when a huge block of rock 11 miles (17.7 kilometers) under the city suddenly jolted upward several inches. As the ground above it bounced and buckled, thousands of buildings cracked and crumbled. Bridges snapped like toothpicks, and cracks opened in the ground. Gas lines broke, starting fires. The 1994 earthquake lasted only 30 seconds but caused 57 deaths and 9,000 injuries, and left thousands homeless. Read more about earthquakes and watch a video of their aftermath.



		January/February 2004 Mountain Lions Dallas, 8, suddenly started screaming during a hike in Big Bend National Park, in Texas. She had been posing with her sisters Jessica, 9, and Meagan, 6, so their mother could take pictures, when Dallas saw a mountain lion ready to pounce. Read more and watch a video of mountain lions in action!



		December 2003 Volcano! How are volcanoes formed? What do they look like when they erupt? And how do certain volcanoes behave? Watch volcano videos and learn more about these mountains of fire!



		November 2003 Snow Babies As newborns, polar bear cubs are about the same size as a loaf of bread and weigh about a pound (.37 kilograms). They have no teeth, their eyes are closed, and their fur is not thick. They need their mother's warmth and protection 24/7.Want to know more about polar bears? Click here to cozy up to some polar bear cubs!



		October 2003 13 Costumes Under 20 Dollars You don't need a lot of money to make original Halloween costumes!Click here to check out our ten easy costume ideas.



		September 2003 Guinness World Records! Sometimes it's OK to break things—especially when you're breaking Guinness World Records! Each week between 1,200 and 1,500 people propose to set a record. But only the best succeed. Click here to see some of the coolest and strangest facts around!



		September 2003 Hurricanes! Flying into a hurricane means a bumpy ride as "hurricane hunters" discover secrets inside awesome storms. Fly into the eye and find out more.



		July/August 2003 Tool Time! Some animals, like dolphins and sea otters, use tools to get food and solve problems. Click here to learn more about animal ingenuity!



		June 2003 Tornado! Storm chasers risk their lives to discover the secrets of these awesome winds. Click here to get swept away!



		April 2003 Be a Habitat Hero! Join Leonardo DiCaprio and National Geographic Kids to help save the environment. Take the Pledge and find out more!



		January/February 2003 Avalanche: Snow That Smashes A million tons (1,016,050,000 kilograms) of snow rumble eight miles (13 kilometers) downhill, kicking up a cloud of snow dust visible a hundred miles (161 kilometers) away. This is not a scene from a disaster movie—this describes reality one day in April 1981. Find out what happened next!



		December 2002 The Wild Thornberrys Admit it: Helping a rhino who has told you poachers are after him would be pretty cool. In the new movie The Wild Thornberrys, based on the Nickelodeon TV show, Eliza Thornberry does just that using her power to talk with animals. Read more about the movie.



		November 2002 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Break out your floo powder and rev up your flying Ford Anglia. It's time for a return trip to Hogwarts to see the new movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Click here to enter.



		October 2002 We Survived September 11th See the story of September 11th through the eyes of New York's P.S. 234 students as they recount their experiences on that fateful day. Kids' interviews and photos tell the story of what they saw and felt the day the World Trade Center's twin towers came down around their school and what it meant to them to return four months later. Read more.



		September 2002 Meet the Battlebots Crash! Bits of metal and rubber fly through the air. It's a BattleBots matchup between two remote-controlled robots named Marvel of Engineering (M.O.E.) and Matador. M.O.E.'s lawn mower-like blades have just torn off one of Matador's tires. Read more about the competition.



		July/August 2002 Flow Motion Check out the top three water park rides in the United States—as rated by riders—and grab a sneak peek at a brand-new ride that will really make you scream! Hop on in.



		June 2002 Ghost Lions of Africa Building a new railroad was hot, hard, dangerous work. In just nine months, some 135 men died. But these men weren’t killed on the job. The workers were killed and eaten by lions. Find out more.



		April 2002 Grossology: The Science of Being Gross Think fast: What’s the grossest thing you can imagine? Whatever you thought of, you can find details about it in a museum exhibit called Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body. Read more about the exhibit.



		March 2002 The Weird World of Frogs Frogs bark, croak, cluck, click, grunt, snore, squawk, chirp, whistle, trill, and yap. Some are named for the noise they make. A chorus of barking tree frogs sounds like a pack of hounds on a hunt. Read more about some weird frogs.



		January/February 2002 Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius Can Jimmy and his friends fly across the galaxy fast enough to keep their parents from becoming human hamburgers? And how many laws of science will they have to break to get there? Here’s World’s guide to where the science ends—and the science fiction begins. Find out more.



		December 2001 Bear Necessities In a polar bear’s Arctic home, winter temperatures can drop as low as 50°F below zero (-45°C). But keeping warm is no sweat for a polar bear—in fact, sometimes its biggest problem is cooling off! Learn more.



		November 2001 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Grab your magic wand and hop on your flying broomstick! ’Cause unless you’ve been sleeping under the stairs, you know what’s coming: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Read more.



		October2001 Spotting Leopards Two shadows stalk a male leopard. One is persistent, grabby, and dangerous. The other is respectful, curious, and harmless. In Mala Mala Game Reserve in South Africa, the menacing shadow is a spotted hyena. The other shadow is a National Geographic filmmaker. Read more.



		September 2001 Three Queens of Egypt Girls of ancient Egypt had it a lot better than most. By age 12, they could wear makeup. They walked their pet geese and played ball for fun. As women, they had rights not accepted elsewhere. They could buy and sell property, inherit stuff—even sue someone! Learn more.



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