Category: Kids News

In 1928, red streaks on a wall inside Bacon Cave, in Mumbles Wales, were concluded to be iron oxide. 98 years later, a new analysis found the streaks were actually the United Kingdom’s oldest prehistoric art. The cave paintings are more than 17,000 years old, and face a wall with graffiti from 1894.

The 2028 Summer Olympics will take place in Los Angeles California, but a massive cleanup of the San Gabriel and Los Angeles Rivers is needed first. Ocean Cleanup, an organization working on removing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, will send their Interceptor. The barge can remove thousands of pounds of trash every year.

A stray cat in Oklahoma, showed up on the Price family’s porch last month. The cat, now feeling safe, soon gave birth to 5 kittens. A few days later, the cat showed up with one more mouth to feed. She was nursing a fuzzy baby bunny, alongside her own kittens!

Playing in the dirt, can be good for your health. A daycare in Finland planted the yard with forest undergrowth, and let the children care for crops in planter boxes. After only 1 month, the kids developed healthier immune systems, than children who played in yards covered with pavement or gravel.

Quack-quack-quack. It’s Donald Duck Day! The beloved grumpy duck made his first appearance in a 19 34 cartoon. He’s been in even more movies than Mickey Mouse! It’s also Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day. What a sweet way, to eat your daily fruits and vegetables! Is your name Earl? You deserve extra pie, because it’s Earl Day!

Upsy daisy, rise and shine! Wake up with a smile, because it’s Upsy Daisy Day! It’s also Best Friends Day. Celebrate by brainstorming with your best friend to concoct a special drink, for Name Your Poison Day. Be sure to give it a fun name. A pickle-pineapple juice drink could be a Pinnacle!

It’s World Oceans Day, which means it’s time to show oceans some love. What can you do, to help protect or clean the ocean? Do some research and find out! Then go to an uncrowded beach to enjoy the water. Pick up any trash you find, so it doesn’t wash out to sea!

The FIFA World Cup will begin soon, so Canada organized the world’s largest game of human foosball. Instead of spinning players on a foosball table, 254 human participants held onto poles on a field. They had to kick a soccer ball into a giant goal, while staying anchored to the pole.

Who’re the toughest dudes in the ocean? Sharks, with their 300 teeth? Electric eels, with their shocking touch? Jellyfish, with their venomous tentacles? How about the stonefish, who has switchblade cheekbones! Stonefish have lachrymal sabers, which are bones that deploy horizontally under the eyes, and fold back in after they’ve warned you to back off!

Have you ever seen square waves? It’s a common sight in Isle of Rhe, an island in France. The ocean’s surface sometimes form the pattern of a chess board. The phenomenon is called a cross sea, and occurs when waves from one weather pattern intersect another wave system. But beware: they create dangerous riptides!