Kids News - Articles with 200-400 Words

Hundreds of runners, all donned in gorilla suits took to the streets of London this weekend, to participate in the sixth annual, 7km Great Gorilla Run, a charity event to help endangered mountain gorillas. This year's record turnout of 735 people, one for every mountain gorilla alive, aimed to raise $400,000 USD to help preserve the dwindling population of this majestic animal....

Two geologists believe they have discovered what could be the world's oldest rocks near the Eastern shores of Hudson Bay in North Quebec. Jonathan O'Neil from McGill University and Richard Carlson from Carnegie Institution of Washington say that tests conducted on the rocks from this region, indicate that they could be as old as 4.28 billion years old, only 300,000 years younger than the Earth....

If British inventor Mijevic Miroslav has his way, a bike ride will no longer evoke memories of grinding up steep hills. Instead it will be as easy as pushing the gas pedal in a car, except for the fact that the Cycle Sol is solar powered....

Swiss Adventurer Yves Rossy, also known as Jetman or Fusionman, made history this morning by flying across the English Channel with just a jet-propelled wing on his back. Yves, who had to postpone the flight twice this week due to bad weather, soared across the skies at about a 100 mph on a beautiful fall afternoon, completing the 22-mile journey in just 13 minutes....

Since 1994, Bill Dan has been wowing the residents of San Francisco, California and the neighboring city of Sausalito with his amazing rock 'art' - if that's what one could call balancing different sizes of rocks on top of each other....

When we think of lobsters, we always imagine them to be red. However, did you know that lobsters could be blue, yellow or even white? Admittedly they are rare though - Blue lobsters are one in two million, yellow - one in thirty million and white, even rarer - one in one hundred million....

When the Bristol Zoo in the United Kingdom, decided to adopt Kera to join their Western Lowland gorilla family, they were a little concerned about how she would adjust....

After nine years of painstaking excavation, a team of archeologists has finally unearthed enough evidence to prove that they have found the elusive city of Itil, the capital of the medieval Khazars Empire that ruled over the area around the Caspian Sea in the seventh and eight centuries....

On September 24th, William Yuan, a seventh-grader from Beaverton, Oregon will be honored in Washington D.C. as the youngest Davidson Science Fellow, for his design of a three-dimensional, highly-efficient solar cell....