DEEP SEA SECRETS: What Hides Beneath the Waves 🌊🐙

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 19 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

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

In this episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out to determine which science is the best, and this week we're learning all about the ocean!

First up, scientists have discovered a brand-new species of flying reptile that lived more than 200 million years ago. Then, we take you to Indonesia, where a volcano has erupted, sending a towering ash cloud 11 miles into the sky. And finally, Dan chats with Richard Buggs from Queen Mary University of London and Kew Gardens to learn how Britain's ash trees are fighting back against a devastating fungal disease.

Then, we answer your questions! Etta wants to know: What happens if you're stung by 100 bees and Dr. Emma Nicholls answers Jessica’s question: How do scientists know dinosaurs had feathers?

In Dangerous Dan, we learn all about the Weever fish.

And in Battle of the Sciences, oceanographer Alessandro Silvano explains the power of the seas

What do we learn about?

· A 200 million year old flying reptile species
· How Britain's trees are fighting back against a fungi disease
· How scientists know dinosaurs had feathers
· The Weever fish
· And in Battle of the Sciences... what lies beneath the ocean!

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Explorer, are you ready? It's time for a brand new search through the solar system in the Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:08.8	My name is Dan. This is the smartest podcast in the entire universe. Not one science secret goes undiscovered around here.
0:19.5	This week, now, do you reckon all dinosaurs were scaly?
0:23.6	That's what we see in the movies, right? Well, think again, because we know that some had feathers.
0:30.6	Dinosaurs with feathers have actually been found for a very long time. The first dinosaur that we
0:36.1	know of with feathers that was described was
0:38.9	actually archaeopteryx. And that was described in 1861. Also, we're diving down through the
0:45.9	ocean a lot this week, learning about one of the most painful stings in the world, and will
0:51.9	travel down to reveal the incredible power of the seas.
0:57.2	So it's true, we know very little.
0:59.5	We used to say that we know more about the surface of the moon or of Mars than about the seafloor.
1:05.7	It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:12.8	Let's start with your science in the news, and we found a new flying reptile.
1:18.8	Scientists have discovered this pterosaur, which soared above the dinosaurs more than 200 million years ago.
1:24.6	The jawbone of the creature was discovered in the USA around 14 years ago,
1:29.0	and now new scanning technology has revealed details that show it's a brand new species, one we've
1:36.8	never heard of before. Now it's tough to find these creatures underground. Teresore bones
1:42.4	are small and thin, so they often get destroyed before
1:45.6	their fossils. Experts have named it Otefractalus Macinteree, which means ash-winged Dawn
1:54.9	Goddess. They thought it had big wings and it was discovered in volcano ash fossilised.
2:00.8	How amazing is it that, well, millions of years
2:03.1	like, 200 million years later, we can find this bone underground and then we can invent technology
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