Kids, you have a lot of questions.

Is it a crocodile or dinosaur?

Why do people vote?

How does your food turn into your pee?

But why? A podcast for Curious Kids has answers.

I'm Jane Lindholm.

Join me as we dig deep into everything from science to history, nature, emotions, and sometimes even the weird.

Why are jellyfish is made of jelly? Or are they made of jelly?

Fine, but why, wherever you get your podcasts.

Pts! Hey there, Smarty Pants! Welcome back to Smarty Q, the show where you ask the questions, and I, the trusty narrator, answer them.

Because, let's face it, there's nothing I like more than having curious kids from around the world send me their biggest, weirdest, smartest questions about how the world works.

So let's get started.

Our first question comes from my smarty friends Eli and Maggie and their mom Shannon in Maryland to ask, what is the bloop?

Ooh, great question. So mysterious. You see, back in 1997, scientists studying underwater microphones in the Pacific

Ocean recorded a very strange sound. It was extremely loud. It came from deep underwater,

and no one knew what made it. The sound rose quickly in pitch and lasted about a minute.

Because it sounded so unusual, scientists gave it a nickname, The Bloop.

At first, some people wondered if it could be a giant, unknown sea creature.

But after studying the sound for years, scientists discovered the most likely explanation.

It probably came from huge pieces of Antarctic ice cracking and breaking apart, something called an icequake. When enormous glaciers

shift or split in the ocean, they can create sounds so powerful they travel thousands of miles

underwater. So the bloop wasn't a sea monster, after all, just the Earth's ice making a really

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