tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2008-06-09:/kidsnews//20 2012-05-14T21:50:18Z Read news stories on the National Geographic Kids News Bites blog! Movable Type 4.1 tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2540 2012-05-14T21:02:38Z 2012-05-14T21:50:18Z

Celebrate America's parks on May 19! Kids all over the country will be visiting parks this Saturday. Are you planning to visit a park with your family this weekend? Check out the National Kids to Parks Day website to...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2537 2012-05-07T19:31:51Z 2012-05-08T17:38:38Z

More than 114,000 young artists from across the country have submitted their drawings to the Doodle 4 Google contest, and now you can help select the winners! The drawings are all based on this year's theme, which is "If I...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2535 2012-05-01T21:06:35Z 2012-05-01T21:13:37Z

A new gecko species has been found in Papua New Guinea. This black and gold striped gecko is called Nactus kunan, from the word, kunan, which means "bumblebee" in the local Nali language. Scientists think that this lizard's coloration helps...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2528 2012-04-27T18:28:57Z 2012-04-27T21:21:09Z

The winners of the 2012 National Geographic Student Expeditions Photo Contest have been chosen from more than 1,800 entries. The contest was open to high school students across the country. Timothy Brooks, who snapped the grand prize winning photo above,...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2524 2012-04-25T18:06:57Z 2012-04-30T14:51:18Z

Celebrate America's parks on May 19! Kids nationwide are gearing up for the second annual National Kids to Parks Day. "National Kids to Parks Day encourages children across America to get out and play. This simple idea of playing in...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2522 2012-04-19T18:58:09Z 2012-04-19T21:02:06Z

The National Geographic Kids website has been nominated for a 2012 Webby Award! The website is listed in the Website - Living - Youth category. NG Kids won the award in this category in 2010, and received the People's...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2518 2012-04-17T21:36:05Z 2012-04-18T02:51:51Z

NASA's decommissioned space shuttle Discovery took a victory lap over Washington, D.C., today on the back of a Boeing 747. The shuttle was traveling to its new home at the National Air and Space Museum in Dulles, Virginia. Discovery flew...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2514 2012-04-12T20:28:25Z 2012-04-12T21:19:47Z

An 8.6-magnitude earthquake, and a strong aftershock, struck off the coast of Indonesia yesterday. The earthquake was followed by a small tsunami, unlike the December 2004 earthquake, which was followed by a major tsunami. "The waves were just below 1...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2505 2012-04-05T20:03:05Z 2012-04-05T19:47:03Z

On April 15, 1912, the ship R.M.S. Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. The giant ship, said to be "unsinkable," sank quickly--it disappeared beneath the waves less than three hours after hitting the iceberg. More than 1,500...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2504 2012-04-03T20:23:25Z 2012-04-03T21:09:41Z

Individuals, businesses, and organizations around the world participated in Earth Hour on March 31. This global observance is held to demonstrate how much we can do to cut back power use and stop climate change if we all work together....

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2501 2012-03-30T18:33:03Z 2012-03-30T19:11:12Z

Happy April Fools' Day! Well ... not quite yet. This Sunday is the first day of April, which traditionally is the day when people play pranks on each other. No one is exactly sure how April 1 became the day...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2499 2012-03-26T20:02:52Z 2012-03-26T20:53:43Z

National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence James Cameron explored the deepest point on the surface of the Earth for about three hours on Sunday before resurfacing. Although Cameron's expedition to the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep location was shorter than planned due to a...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2495 2012-03-20T19:31:02Z 2012-03-20T20:16:25Z

Winter is officially over. Today is the first day of spring! This day is also known as the vernal equinox. Many people believe that this is the day when daylight and nighttime hours are equally long, but is that really...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2491 2012-03-16T20:38:05Z 2012-03-16T20:46:11Z

Andrew Evans, National Geographic's Digital Nomad, recently spent some time penguin-watching on South Georgia Island, which is east of Argentina's Terra del Fuego and north of Antarctica. Andrew watched the activities of a colony of king penguins. Read Andrew's blog...

tag:kidsblogs.nationalgeographic.com,2012:/kidsnews//20.2488 2012-03-14T18:39:54Z 2012-03-14T18:41:36Z

Tomorrow night, the planets Venus and Jupiter will be very close to each other in the night sky--3 degrees apart, which is about the width of two fingers held at arm's length. These two planets are the brightest ones visible...