Category: Kids News

People all over the world, are celebrating Global Dignity Day. Every individual deserves equal worth and respect. Global Dignity Day encourages compassion, kindness, understanding, and tolerance. Start at home, by learning to tolerate your own brothers and sisters. Think of the things that unite all humans, like laughter. We’re more alike than we know.

Rainforests are home to countless species of plants, animals, and insects, as well as an important source of oxygen. The Amazon, a tropical rainforest, supplies 20% of the world’s oxygen, and holds a fifth of the world’s freshwater. North America has temperate rainforests, stretching from California’s Redwood forest, up through British Columbia to Alaska.

The hagfish is amazingly disgusting. Sometimes called the slime eel, the hagfish has no skull or jaws. It escapes predators by releasing up to 5 gallons of slime, clogging the attacker’s gills with mucous. It eats dead animals by crawling in through their mouth and eating the carcass from the inside out. Happy Hagfish Day!

David Rush, who holds nearly 250 world records, broke the record for holding the most lit candles in his mouth. He held 150 burning candles clamped between his teeth, for 30 seconds. Luckily, they were longer than birthday candles, because they made a huge flame. It’s a good thing he wore eye protection!

A stretch of coastline in North Carolina, has been nicknamed the jellyfish jamboree. Thousands of cannonball jellyfish washed ashore, covering the beach with stingerless blobs. Cannonball jellyfish love to eat the larvae of red drum fish, which are spawning in the area. Currents may have pulled many to shore, while they were snacking.

11-year-old Isaac Winfield, used to take groceries to school, for food drives. During the pandemic, he used his birthday money, to start the Friends of Isaac’s Food Bank in England. His parents help him deliver food to those in need, and they also opened a 24-hour food-shed in their driveway.

The world’s largest chameleons are Parson’s chameleons, reaching more than 2 feet long. The eggs take 2 years to hatch, and for the first time, it’s happening at a British zoo. Chester Zoo has a clutch of 27 Parson’s chameleon eggs, and 10 little lizards, less than 1 inch long, have hatched so far.

Motorcycle racing can be dangerous, even when there are no obstacles. But motorcyclists practicing for the Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, had the added danger of avoiding wallabies, which look like small kangaroos. Twice, there were near misses, as a wallaby crossed the track in front of racers traveling 135 miles-per-hour. Those were close calls!

Do you remember the part in Star Wars, when Han Solo gets frozen in carbonite? California’s One House Bakery, has made their own version, called Pan Solo. It looks just like Han stuck in carbonite, except it’s made out of bread! They’ve also made bread sculptures of Mandalorian characters, like the Pan-dough-lorian and Baby Dough-da.