How Are Tears Made?😭💧
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This Week’s Big Questions!
You’ve been sending in your brilliantly curious questions, and this week…
🪶 JJ asks: Why don’t ostriches fly?
🌻 Stein wonders: Why do sunflowers face the sun?
🌬️ Arlo wants to know: Why do we breathe?
😭 Royce asks: How are tears made?
🦫 Ryan is curious: Why do beavers build dams?
And jump through a worm hole to Deep Space High, your local inter-galactic school in space. This week the class learn about a special infrared telescope that can see hidden gas and liquid in space!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Explorer. We're out there. We're journeying through the universe. We're on our adventures and it's all about your questions in a brand new science quest. My name is Dan and every week we unpack your science questions. We cover everything in the universe, anything that you are wondering about |
| 0:21.2 | what's happening, what's out there, what's going on on planet Earth, what's happening inside |
| 0:24.7 | your body, in your brain. We do the whole lot if you have a question you aren't answered. Make |
| 0:29.9 | sure you leave it as a voice note for me on the free FunKids app. You can do it at funkidslive.com |
| 0:35.8 | too, like this one, from JJ. |
| 0:39.9 | Hi, Dan. I'm JJ. I'd like to know, please, why two ostrich is not fly. Thank you. |
| 0:49.4 | Hey, JJ, why don't ostriches fly? Well, they don't need to. Really? You probably want a longer answer than that. |
| 0:58.7 | It's all to do with evolution. Ostriches don't need to fly because they've got strong muscles and |
| 1:04.7 | thick bones that helps them fight other animals on the ground. They need to be really quick. They need |
| 1:10.4 | to be strong to hunt creatures |
| 1:12.2 | because they live in Africa where there's loads of big animals around. So them as the biggest bird, |
| 1:17.8 | they need to do their best to take them down because they're kind of near the top of that food chain. |
| 1:23.9 | They can't fly because they're kind of too heavy really and they very simply don't need to. |
| 1:30.3 | They don't really need to fly away from other predators because they're really fast. |
| 1:34.0 | They've evolved to favour being strong, being quick on the ground, than being able to fly. |
| 1:41.7 | It's the same with other birds. |
| 1:43.8 | Look at a penguin. Well a penguin lives on the |
| 1:46.2 | South Pole. There aren't really any predators around that want to eat them, so they don't need to fly, |
| 1:50.3 | but they do need thick, blubbery fat to keep them warm. That helps them dive down in the ocean. So |
| 1:56.0 | their wings aren't strong enough to lift them off the ground, so they don't need to fly. That's what's happening, |
| 2:03.1 | really. If a creature doesn't do so much, it's because they've evolved without that skill, |
| 2:08.0 | because they don't need it anymore. JJ, thank you so much for the question. Here's one from Steen. |
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