SHARK ATTACK: How the Ocean’s Ultimate Predator Rules the Seas 🦈🌊

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

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🗓️ 18 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Get ready for another deep dive into the wild, weird, and wonderful world of science on this week’s Fun Kids Science Weekly!

This week, we’re answering your burning science questions, uncovering mind-blowing discoveries, and exploring how sharks became the ocean’s ultimate predators.

In Science in the News, we discover how stress can actually make your nose colder, celebrate the green turtle’s comeback from the brink of extinction, and meet Dr. Fred Jordan, whose team is creating mini human brains to help power the computers of the future.

Then we dive into your questions: Kubi wants to know how chameleons change colour, and David Chappell explains the science behind echoes — those mysterious sounds that bounce right back at you!

Dangerous Dan is back too, and this week he’s introducing us to the Blue-tailed skink, a small but speedy reptile with some seriously cool defences.

And in Battle of the Sciences, Dan takes a trip beneath the waves with megalodon expert Jack Cooper, who reveals how sharks evolved into the world’s most efficient predators.

What do we learn about?
· How stress makes your nose colder
· The green turtle’s rescue from extinction
· Mini human brains that could power computers
· How chameleons change colour
· What causes echoes
· The blue-tailed skink lizard
· And the mighty shark, nature’s ultimate ocean hunter!

All that and more on this week’s Fun Kids Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Hello, explorer. Welcome along. Let's take a little break from life here on planet Earth,
0:07.2	shall we, and see what else is out there. It can't just be us. There must be something amazing
0:11.7	lurking through the universe. We'll find them in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:18.0	My name is Dan, and this week with loads of echo.
0:23.6	You can hear why sound bounces back to you.
0:28.9	An echo is just a reflection of sound.
0:31.9	A bit like if you bounce a ball on a hard floor, you know, the ball bounces back.
0:35.9	An echo is just the same thing but with the sand.
0:39.3	Also, for millions of years, sharks have ruled the seas and will learn how they've stayed the ultimate predators.
0:49.7	Sharks have been around longer than trees and longer than grass. They are some of the oldest vertebrates in our oceans.
0:57.9	But importantly, they're also some of the most threatened vertebrates on Earth today.
1:03.2	Plus for our dangerous stand, we'll hear all about a lizard that looks harmless, but sweats, poison.
1:07.9	It's on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:15.0	Thank you. sweats, poison, it's on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. Let's start off with your science in the news. And it turns out stress, make sure nose get colder.
1:22.6	Scientists from the University of Sussex have used thermal imaging cameras.
1:28.4	You see them loads in spy movies.
1:30.2	They show how warm things are by making them glow redder,
1:34.5	and the yellow stuff is colder.
1:36.5	Well, it's shown that when you're stressed, your nose gets brighter, it gets lighter,
1:41.3	and that means it's colder than the red bits.
1:43.3	You see, stress changes the way that blood flows to your face. Maybe it
1:46.9	concentrates it to your brain, because you need a lot to think through. And scientists have showed that when you're
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