Bees, Gases and Possibilities!
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Rory Diamond is the scientific advisor to the Great British Bee Count and self-proclaimed Bee Geek is in the Fun Kids studio this week chatting about why bees are so important, why bees are dying and what makes bees differ from wasps!
Plus Dangerous Dan is looking at a dangerous possibility, we're finding out how gas gets into our homes, scientists have found the most distant sign of oxygen ever and we're pitching Man vs Animal in the long jump!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids. Listen on DAB Digital Radio across the UK or online at funkidslive.com. |
| 0:09.9 | Right. Are you ready then? Is everyone on board? Have you strapped yourselves in? Because it's time to travel to some of the deepest and the most secret parts of the universe. It's the Fun Kids Science Weekly, |
| 0:21.7 | so keep your ears and your mind open and your arms inside the vehicle at all times, please. |
| 0:27.5 | Yes, hello, welcome along. My name is Dan. This is the Fun Kids Science Weekly, |
| 0:31.1 | the show, every seven days where we have a look at the most amazing, weird and wonderful |
| 0:37.3 | things that are in science, really. |
| 0:40.0 | Now, this week, we are pitting a human against a beast in a long jump challenge. |
| 0:46.4 | Also, in Dangerous Dan today, you can find out why something that's currently in the sea |
| 0:51.3 | may have started its life in the stars. |
| 0:55.2 | And in a sec, we'll chat to an expert all about the great British bee count. |
| 1:00.1 | Find out how you can help save a species. |
| 1:02.2 | First, we're travelling back in time, way back to the age of the dinosaurs |
| 1:06.7 | and meeting one of the most famously dangerous of them all. |
| 1:10.3 | Imagine going back in time, not 100 years, or 1,000 years, but millions of years. |
| 1:21.6 | To the age of the dinosaur. |
| 1:26.6 | Welcome to the end of the Cretaceous period, around 65 million years ago. |
| 1:33.3 | Around this time there were more dinosaurs than ever before. |
| 1:38.3 | The world was crowded with groups of triceratops, |
| 1:42.3 | duck-billed Edmontosaurus, squawking birds and a wide variety of plant and sea life. |
| 1:50.0 | The end of the Cretaceous period is also where you'd find one of the best known dinosaurs of them all, Tyrannosaurus Rex. |
| 1:58.0 | He's coming this way. |
| 2:01.6 | Quick, run! |
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