Recently added articles from Kidsworld Magazine:
Vampire bats.(Live Wire: from the newsroom to your classroom)
Sep 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Blood-sucking vampires don't exist outside of our imagination ... but blood-sucking vampire bats sure do! Recent research into the spread of rabies in Peru suggests that vampire bats are biting people at an increasing rate, leading to more rabies cases ...
Jupiter jam.(Live Wire: from the newsroom to your classroom)
Sep 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On July 19, 2009, Australian astronomer Anthony Wesley spotted a gray, dark spot on Jupiter's south pole. Experts who had been monitoring the planet had never observed the spot before and concluded that it was the result of an impact that had occurred over ...
Smart kitty.(Live Wire: from the newsroom to your classroom)
Sep 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] According to new research from the U.K., cats develop a special meow designed to get their owners to feed them! Unlike the sounds they use to communicate with each other, the meow cats use with humans when they are hungry blends a pleasant purring sound ...
From the deep: squid signs.(Live Wire: from the newsroom to your classroom)
Sep 22, 2009 ... In July, San Diego residents found dozens of Humboldt squid, also known as jumbo squid, flopping around on the beach. The squid appeared to have been washing ashore up to three days before to an hour after an earthquakke had rocked the coast of California about an hour earlier. Though ...
Rhinos in trouble.(Live Wire: from the newsroom to your classroom)
Sep 22, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A growing demand for rhinocerous horns on the international market may put rhinos at risk for extinction, say conservation experts. Poachers in Africa target the one-ton creatures for their horns, which are used as medicine and as decoration among some ...