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Fun Kids Science Weekly

Spiders Falling From The Sky

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

Education For Kids, Kids & Family, Science

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dr George McGavin has been all around the world exploring insects and discovering new species - he joins us on this week's podcast.

Professor Hallux and Nurse Nanabot are back this week too and they have all the information for us about vaccines and how they work!

Also this week we're exploring the cretaceous climate in Age of the Dinosaurs, finding out about cuts and scars and how stars shine!

A toxic fart is the subject of Dangerous Dan and in Science in the News, there's news of spiders falling from the sky in the USA!

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone. I'm Cressida Cowell, author of How to Train Your Dragon, and I'm just popping

0:04.4

in to tell you about my new book series, Witchway to Anywhere. It's a story about four children

0:10.0

who discover that there are alternative worlds beyond our own, and that they can travel to them

0:15.3

with the help of a magical map and a very special gift. Of course, this leads to epic, unexpected

0:21.9

adventures. Witchway to Anywhere, and its sequel, Witchway Round the Galaxy, are both available

0:27.5

to buy now. Happy reading. Hello and welcome to the world famous Fun Kids Science Weekly.

0:35.2

That means it's the part of the week where we open our minds to search out all the secrets

0:40.8

lurking around the universe. My name is Dan. Thank you for being there on this journey

0:47.1

to find all the most amazing things that we've never heard of before. Some real bellers on

0:52.8

today's show as well. This week we're chatting to an insect expert who has traveled all around

0:58.2

the world exploring jungles and finding new insects. I've seen the world's biggest spider, which

1:06.4

is about the size of my whole my two hands out. It would sit sort of comfortably across my hand there.

1:13.6

Also, you can hear how medicine gets inside your body to make you better with Professor Hallux.

1:19.7

Their immune system will recognize it and immediately produce the antibody's needed to fight it.

1:29.7

And we'll travel back in time to the age of the dinosaurs to have a look at

1:33.6

crititious climate too. As the land broke apart, dinosaur species became separated from one

1:40.5

another and had to adapt to new and different environments from wet, cold and rainy to hot and

1:46.4

dry. There's all that and loads more including your questions in a brand new fun kid science weekly.

1:53.9

Let's kick things off this week with your science in the news.

1:58.8

Terrifying one to start us off, scientists are predicting that giant spiders will fall from the sky

2:06.0

across America this summer. The Juro spider comes from Japan originally, it's yellow, blue,

2:11.9

black and red, it's got tiny fangs so it can't really do any damage and it's travelled over to

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