MIDWEEKLY: What Colours Can Animals See? 🐶🐱

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Welcome to our new Science Midweekly series!

This week, Dan answers your questions! Uncover the secrets of atoms, learn how the first tree came to be, and explore the fascinating colours animals can see!

We also catch up with the Aquanauts who, this week, are looking at where water goes once we are finished with it.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome along to a brand new episode of the Fun Kid Science Midweekly. It's your bite-sized special. Let's search out the universe. Find some strange science secrets lurking nearby. My name is Dan. This week we've got more of your science questions answered. What
0:22.9	colours can your favourite animal friends see? And where did trees come from? The first question this
0:31.4	week is from Edith. How was the first tree created? It does sound amazing, doesn't it, to think that trees are around,
0:40.2	that trees have been around for like millions and millions of years, way before anyone was here
0:44.9	to actually plant their seeds. Let's find out why. About 400 million years ago, during the
0:51.2	Devonian period, trees were first around. That's where we first know that
0:56.6	they existed. Now, like most things that have appeared and evolved over time, they come from
1:02.7	smaller things that were there before. So in the old waters back then, you would have bacteria,
1:08.3	tiny bits of life from there small weeds grew and then through
1:12.9	evolution through natural selection some of those weeds got bigger became proper plants and they
1:18.2	were better at getting the sunlight which they needed to live and thrive so they kind of took over
1:22.2	and then bushes grew from those weeds and then trees grew from those bushes. Quite a lot of those plants
1:29.1	early on, they made more of themselves, they reproduced without the need for seeds. But today,
1:38.2	trees are grown from seeds, aren't they? That took quite a while, about another 350 million years ago.
1:43.9	That was when trees
1:45.4	first started to develop seeds that they could drop, which maybe animals could pick up and
1:51.2	take and accidentally plant somewhere else, and that would make other trees. And over these last
1:56.9	350 million years, it's grown to have full forests, huge jungles and all the trees that we see
2:05.5	through the sky today. So the first tree was created about 400 million years ago. Thank you for the
2:10.7	question. Here is one from Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, Maggie, who wants to know,
2:16.7	can cats and dogs see in colour like humans?
2:20.3	Well, yes and no here. They can see in colour, but not quite like humans. You see, colour is our
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