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Hi Kids! Howl gou all doing?! Welcome to oar fang-tastic new issue, dedicated to Halloween! Inside this month's mag, we've got lots of ghoulishly great stories for you to devour. We check out ten cool facts about spooky stuff and reveal the truth about ancient ‘witches’!. Plus we meet the wolves that have adapted to life by the sea, and pit ferocious animals against each other – which ones do YOU think are the scariest? Talking of scary creatures, let's bust another myth: this month's cute cover star is definitely NOT bad luck. Black cats are great! Hope you enjoy this issue's fiendishly fun bumper puzzle section. See you next month!…
Robot rabbits help catch pythons! News hop off the press from Florida, USA, where biologists want to see if robot rabbits can help control the population of invasive Burmese pythons! Over 10,000 of the Southeast Asian reptiles live in the state's swamps, where they've killed over 95% of small mammals since escaping from the pet trade in the 1970s. Determined to protect the remaining wildlife, biologists are working to catch and remove as many pythons as possible – but they're hard to find, so the team are luring them in with robotic rabbits! Powered by solar power, the toy bunnies look, move and even smell like wild marsh rabbits, which the pythons eat. Each lookalike is placed in a pen and monitored with cameras. When a snake slithers by, a signal…
Rock on, sheep! We've all seen fields full of sheep – but what if they were made out of rocks?! Inspired by a visit to Stonehenge in the UK, farmer Mart Maastik and stonemason Janek Teller have created a flock of 300 stone sheep on the island of Saaremaa, in Estonia, northern Europe. They include a Lamb Parliament, Lamb Army and even Lambhenge. Baa-rilliant! Ghostly images Artist Nick Veasey makes pictures out of X-rays! He scans bones, clothes, objects and even vehicles before stitching the layers together on a computer. Working with X-ray radiation is dangerous, so Nick works in a special bunker and often uses old donated skeletons. Super-spooky! Silly sketches! Italian artist Pietro Cataudella draws pictures in notebooks and then takes photos of his sketches in front of…
K-Pop Demon Hunters Netflix's surprise smash hit is a dazzling animation about a top Korean girl band who also secretly hunt evil spirits. But then along come a new breed of demons disguised as a super-cute boyband. Their plan? To steal the girl group's fans – and the fans’ souls. YIKES! Despite the silly plot, this high energy movie is a blast! Plus, there's an inspiring message about how negative self-talk and shame can be overcome through friendship and community. Warning, though – the songs are real earworms! Well worth the hype. • On Netflix now. There's also a singalong version! Chicken Run: Eggstraction Fans of Aardman animations, video games and, um, chickens, will love this fun new sequel to Dawn of the Nugget! In the high-stakes stealth action game, players must…
Hold on tight! When wildlife photojournalist Doug Gimesy first caught sight of this flying fox, he thought its feet were tangled in rubbish. But when the fruit bat got closer, he had a stunning surprise. “She was flying with a baby!” he says. “And the pup was barely hanging on!” Flying foxes can soar up to 50km each day in search of food such as fruit, nectar or pollen, and when the babies are young and light the mums bring their pups along for the ride. “The baby bats clamp on to their mothers with their teeth and hold on to her fur with their feet,” Doug explains. Unfortunately, if the pups are too heavy or lose their grip, they can fall off. “I work as a flying fox rescuer…
Coastal wolf pups start to learn to swim when they're about twoand-a-half months old. Many First Nations Canadians honour coastal wolves some groups consider them ancestors. Wolves often howl in a chorus. A wolf pads across a sandy beach. Catching a scent, it paws at the wet sand in search of a buried clam. Crunch! The wolf crushes the clam in its jaws and swallows. Still hungry, it splashes into the ocean waves and swims to a nearby island to find more food. Wolves on the beach might sound strange, but small populations of these grey wolves have been living by the seaside in North America for thousands of years. Known as coastal wolves, about 2,000 of these individuals make their homes among the small islands and coastal rainforest of western…
