Curious About Megalodons

Curious Kid Podcast

Bleav + Olivia

Education, Family & Kids, Kids, National, Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Learning, Family

4.7 • 733 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In episode 40, we get curious about Megalodons, an enormous shark that is now extinct. If you enjoyed our episode Curious About Dinosaurs, you will absolutely love learning about the most fearsome animal of the seas. Send Us An E-mail - curiouskidpodcast@gmail.comSupport Us On Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/CuriouskidpodcastFollow Us On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/curiouskidpod/Follow Us On Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/curiouskidpodcast/Follow Us On Twitter - https://twitter.com/CuriousKidPod

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast. This is episode number 40, and it's going to be a big one, a really big one.
0:30.6	And it's a listener suggestion episode. It sure is. Every five episodes, we get curious about a topic suggested by a listener, and this episode is no different.
0:43.6	Mail bag.
0:49.4	Our mail this week is an email sent to us all the way back in February from fans in Melbourne, Australia.
0:59.0	We are so lucky that fans all the way in Australia.
1:02.0	I know. It's really amazing.
1:05.0	It turns out that we have more listeners in Australia than any other country outside of the United States, and we've
1:12.8	received a couple of emails from Australia. This one comes from Jessica and six-year-old Oslo.
1:19.4	It says, Olivia, I have listened to all your podcasts twice already. How about you get curious
1:26.9	about megalodons? I just can't get enough of them.
1:31.2	They are ancient and scary and huge. Or maybe ancient giant animals of the sea. I love your show,
1:39.8	Oslo. Thanks so much for the email, Oslo. This week we are getting curious about Megalodons for you.
1:48.0	I have to admit that when we got this email from Oslo, I was a bit nervous.
1:53.0	The only thing I knew about megalodons before receiving this email was that they were really big sharks that are extinct.
2:04.4	But that's not enough to fill up a podcast episode.
2:05.9	You're right about that.
2:08.2	Megalodons were really big,
2:11.8	so it wouldn't be fair to do a teeny tiny episode about them.
2:14.3	Megalodon is a funny word.
2:15.7	Let's learn what it means.
2:20.4	Megalodon means big tooth in Greek.
2:25.5	The prefix megalo means abnormally large or huge.
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