News Bites - National Geographic Kidstag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2008-06-09:/kidsnews//202009-11-20T20:52:05ZRead news stories on the National Geographic Kids News Bites blog!Movable Type 4.120th Anniversary of Children's Rights Treatytag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9562009-11-20T19:40:27Z2009-11-20T20:52:05Z Today is the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, or UNCRC. The UNCRC is a treaty that grants children under the age of 17 more than 40 rights, including the rights to...Terra Cotta Warriors at National Geographictag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9552009-11-19T19:10:12Z2009-11-19T21:49:32ZThe life-size Terra Cotta Warriors from China are on display beginning today at National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C. Visitors can stand face-to-face with the 2,000-year-old statues, which were created to guard the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi....Songbird "Sings" With Featherstag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9512009-11-12T21:21:34Z2009-11-12T21:32:51ZIs that sound a violin? Nope! You are hearing the vibrating feathers of the male club-winged manakin. This tiny songbird lives in the cloud forests of the Andes in South America. It vibrates one type of wing feather against another...Happy Birthday, Sesame Street!tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9482009-11-10T14:18:30Z2009-11-11T16:30:31ZSesame Street's first episode aired on November 10, 1969. It was one of the first educational TV programs for kids. The idea behind Sesame Street was to help kids learn and to have fun while doing it. The show was...Hunger Is A Worldwide Problemtag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9472009-11-06T19:54:18Z2009-11-06T21:19:43Z Photograph courtesy WFP/Rein SkullerudDid you know that over one billion people suffer hunger in the world each day? That is about one-sixth of the population of the planet. The World Food Programme, part of the United Nations, helps feed...Lemurs and Meerkats Get Halloween Treatstag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9452009-11-03T20:14:31Z2009-11-03T20:19:39ZPhotograph courtesy Cotswold Wildlife Park Did you get some good treats this Halloween? The lemurs and meerkats at the Cotswold Wildlife Park in the United Kingdom did, too! These pictures show some of the park's critters enjoying carved pumpkins as...What Is Daylight Saving Time, Anyway?tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9222009-10-27T18:43:39Z2009-10-28T18:26:01Z Photograph by Lisa Poole, AP Daylight saving time ends for most of the U.S. on November 1. But why do we change our clocks by one hour in the spring in the first place? "In the early 19th century...Largest Web-Spinner Foundtag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9192009-10-22T18:53:13Z2009-10-22T18:56:45ZNephila komaci is the world's largest web-spinning spider. Or at least the female is! Her legspan can be as big as five inches (12 centimeters) wide. The males, however, is less than a quarter of the female's size. Males have...Chimps Help Each Othertag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9182009-10-20T15:36:35Z2009-10-20T19:06:05Z Chimpanzees are more like humans than researchers previously thought. In a new study performed in Japan, chimps helped other chimps get juice by passing them objects such as straws (to drink the juice) or sticks (to reach straws they...Big Cats Initiative tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9172009-10-16T21:03:14Z2009-10-19T16:39:45ZPhotograph by Beverly JoubertAfrica's lion population is quickly getting smaller and smaller, and action must be taken immediately to save these majestic animals.To raise awareness, the National Geographic Society launched the Big Cats Initiative this month. This project will support...Vegetarian Spidertag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9142009-10-14T19:31:02Z2009-10-14T20:24:58Z Photograph by Robert L. Curry Did you know that there are more than 40,000 species of spiders, but only one species is known to be vegetarian? The jumping spider is named Bagheera kiplingi after the character of Bagheera the...NASA "Bombs" the Moontag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9132009-10-09T17:35:08Z2009-10-09T18:57:39ZLCROSS mission picture courtesy NASA This morning, NASA's LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) intentionally crashed into the moon's surface in hopes of uncovering traces of ice near the moon's south pole. The impact created a crater of about...Bat Rescuetag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9122009-10-07T15:34:01Z2009-10-07T16:22:56Z Photograph by Newspix/Rex USAViolent storms can be disastrous for baby flying foxes in Australia. Strong winds can knock the babies from the protection of their mothers' wings, and many have not learned how to fly. Luckily for the bats,...Oldest Human Ancestor Skeleton Foundtag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9102009-10-02T17:52:55Z2009-10-02T19:49:41Z The oldest known fossil skeleton of a human ancestor--a female Ardipithecus ramidus specimen nicknamed "Ardi" (pictured)--has been found, scientists revealed yesterday.The find reveals that our ancestors underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before...Happy the Hippo Leaves the National Zootag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2009:/kidsnews//20.9092009-09-30T20:27:09Z2009-09-30T20:55:05ZPhotograph by Mehgan Murphy/National ZooHappy the hippo was born at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and lived there for 28 years. In recent years, he has been the zoo's only hippo and shared a habitat with the elephants. On Monday, September...