CHAMELEONS OF THE SEA: How Octopuses Can Change Colour?🐙

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 13 July 2024

⏱️ 28 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 answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn all about octopuses changing colour in Anglesey in Wales.

Dan starts with the latest science news, where we learn about a faraway planet called HD198733B that stinks of rotten eggs, why some eagles have skipped breeding season to look after their 2 year old chick and Ciara Taylor from the Marine Conservation Society tells us about an octopus spotted changing colour in Wales.

Then we delve into your questions where Dan answers Alana's question on why we don't get dizzy by the world spinning & Chris Lewis from the University of Copenhagen answers Lewis' question on why animals hibernate?

Dangerous Dan continues and we learn all about the fearsome Allosaurus

The Battle of the Sciences continues where Dan chats to Grace Carroll about why Animal Welfare Science is the best kind of science?

What do we learn about?

- A planet that stinks of rotten eggs

- Why some eagles are skipping breeding season?

- Octopuses changing colour in Anglesey, Wales

- Why animals hibernate?

- Is Animal Welfare Science the best type of science?

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	It's been a few days. I hope you are rested. I hope you are very curious because it's time to go exploring around the universe again.
0:09.0	Welcome along to a brand new fun kid science weekly.
0:16.2	Yes Explorer, thank you for being there. This is the mission to discover so many science secrets that are lurking across the galaxy.
0:21.2	We discover the things that people never ever talk about.
0:25.1	My name is Dan this week.
0:26.9	We'll learn about why animals who need to be alert, aware and ready to go at any time
0:32.3	decide to sleep for a few months every year.
0:35.0	And the reason that animals hibernate is to survive.
0:39.0	In the winter, there's a lot less food and it's of course a lot colder. And because there's a lot less food and it's of course a lot colder and because there's a lot
0:44.8	less food they need to basically go into a deep sleep so that they their body
0:50.1	kind of shuts down in a way. Also, our quest to discover the greatest science around continues and you can hear all about taking care of creatures.
1:01.0	I want to understand how humans can change in order to improve animal welfare.
1:08.0	So that's one of the new big things is we kind of know a lot sometimes about how we should treat animals but we need to get the
1:15.1	humans to change.
1:17.5	Also we'll travel back in time for one of the most brutal but maybe stupidest dinosaurs ever
1:22.3	in a brand new fun kids science weekly.
1:24.6	Let's start things off with your science in the news then and a faraway planet known for its terrible
1:34.8	weather also stinks of rotten eggs. That's what scientists have found they've
1:39.9	been studying the atmosphere of a planet called HD-973B which is scorching
1:46.7	temperatures and rain that's almost like glass falling from the sky it's been studied by the James Webb Space Telescope and
1:55.6	also hydrogen sulfide exists on this planet. You also find it on Jupiter and it makes a
2:01.7	bit of a stench a bad pong the gas is also made during
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