DINO DYNASTY: Meet The Dinosaur That Ruled The Sky 🦖👑

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 33 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 continue our bigger and better podcast where we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out for which science is the best & learn about a dinosaur which used to rule the skies!

Dan kicks off with the latest in science news, beginning with a fascinating update on the Earth's core—could its shape be shifting? Next, we dive deep into the ocean to meet a newly discovered fish, named after a beloved film character. And to wrap up, Richard Fox from Butterfly Conservation joins Dan to explore the urgent challenges facing butterflies across the UK and what can be done to help.

We then answer your questions, Lulu wants to know why planets have a gravitational pull and our favourite meteorologist, Kirsty McCabe joins Dan to answer Deanna's question: Where did the first water droplet come from?

Dangerous Dan continues, where we learn all about the poisonous Oleander plant.

In Battle of the Sciences, Dr. Natalia Jagielska explains the power of the palaeontology... the study of ancient dinosaur fossils!

What do we learn about?

· What's happened to the shape of the Earth's core

· The urgent crisis facing butterflies in the UK

· How the first water droplet was formed

· The dangers of the Oleander plant

· And in Battle of the Sciences, the power of palaeontology

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Well, ahoi, hello and welcome to a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:06.2	It's our chance to search out some of those science secrets lurking around the universe.
0:15.0	My name's Dan. Thank you very much for listening.
0:18.3	As we try and discover all those really strange things that
0:21.3	you might have heard, can that possibly be true? Did you really say that? Let's find out.
0:26.0	This week, we're travelling way back, trying to discover where the very first drop of water came from.
0:33.7	Do you know the water cycle has been going on so long that quite possibly we're still seeing that first raindrop spinning round and round and now.
0:39.4	The water from dinosaur times is still going around today, so you could be drinking the same water that a T-Rex used to.
0:45.3	Also, it's all about first things this week.
0:47.8	We're learning about the dinosaur that originally mastered the art of flying.
0:52.7	They were the largest annual that ever took to skies,
0:55.7	with sob having wingspans of 12 meters,
0:58.3	so basically size of an aeroplane.
1:00.8	And our dangerous stand looks at one of the most pretty
1:03.6	and poisonous plants around.
1:06.1	It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:12.3	Let's start with your science in the news.
1:15.1	The inner core of Earth might have changed shape in the past 20 years.
1:19.6	That's according to a group of scientists.
1:22.1	Now, the inner core is usually thought to be shaped a bit like a ball,
1:25.6	but experts say its edges might have deformed by a hundred meters or more in height in some places.
1:33.6	Now, Earth's core is very important.
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