AN UNDERWATER UNIVERSE: The Secrets of Marine Biology🐋

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 8 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

This episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly we continue our bigger and better podcast where we put YOUR questions to our team of experts, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about the world's smallest foxes which can now be found in a zoo in the UK!

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about a rare fern plant in New Caledonia entering the record books because of its DNA, why the first stegosaurus to be sold at auction is going to sell for millions of pounds and Tina Rowtcliff from Exmoor Zoo tells us all about the Fennec Fox and why the world's smallest species of fox can now be found at a Zoo in Devon in the UK.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan answers Karis' question about why bones crack and we pose Darcee's question on how long it would take to get to the moon to Dhara Patel from the National Space Centre.

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the Curare Vine which causes venomous chaos in the Amazon Rainforest

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop from the University of Plymouth about why Marine Biology is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

- A rare plant in the pacific ocean which has broken a DNA record

- The stegosaurus being sold at an auction for millions on pounds

- World's smallest species of fox being brought to a UK zoo

- How far away really is the moon?

- Is Marine Biology the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Welcome along Explorer. It's the time of the week when we're a little bit bored with planet Earth, so very simply we escape.
0:07.6	We saw across space, we discover loads of secrets in a brand new fun kids science weekly.
0:14.8	My name is Dan, yeah let's discover loads of science secrets,
0:20.9	stuff that you have never heard of before this week.
0:24.0	We're actually heading out across the galaxy.
0:27.0	We're finding out how long it would take you to get to the moon by rocket, by car, even by foot.
0:33.0	Three days in a spacecraft,
0:36.0	but I don't think most of us are used to traveling in a spacecraft.
0:40.0	So if you were to travel to the moon in a car, traveling at that motorway speed of about 70 miles per hour,
0:48.0	it would take over four months.
0:50.0	Also in our quest to find the greatest science ever, we will dive into the ocean to learn about marine biology.
0:59.0	We look at a whole part of the world that's completely mysterious to anybody that's on land
1:05.1	If you look out at the sea all you see is this blue expanse of water, but as soon as you're underneath the water
1:10.5	There's an entire universe of animals and other kinds of
1:14.7	creatures that you would never ever find on land. And you can hear why your bones
1:20.0	make strange noises. It's a clicky, scratchy, pop-in episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:27.0	Let's start off with your science in the news and a rare fern plant has entered the
1:37.9	record books for having more DNA than any other thing. Now DNA is a part of your body, teeny tiny and in that is
1:46.4	every single thing about who you are and what you do. It gets passed down
1:51.5	through your parents or your grandparents, it's genetics, and it happens to every
1:56.7	living thing really, it's a genome.
1:59.5	And that genetic material for the fern plant would reach out 100 meters if unraveled.
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