The Deadliest Fart in the Animal Kingdom!
Fun Kids Science Weekly
Fun Kids
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Ben Garrod, presenter, biologist and author joins us to chat about the animals that no longer exist and those that are currently endangered this week!
Professor Hallux and Nurse Nanabot are back this week too and they have all the information for us about opticians and how our eyes work! Dan also answers your questions this week on how glasses work and much more!
Also this week we're exploring the cretaceous plants in Age of the Dinosaurs, finding out about how they kept dinosaur predators at bay through poison, stinky smells and sticky slime!
A toxic fart is the subject of Dangerous Dan this week and in Science in the News, there's news of the James Webb Telescope in space!
Join Fun Kids Podcasts+: https://funkidslive.com/plus
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 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, welcome along. It's a brand new episode of The Fun Kids Science |
| 0:35.5 | Weekly by far, the smartest podcast in the history of the universe, and it's billions of years old. |
| 0:42.7 | We've got awards to prove it. It shows you what you've stumbled across here. Well done. Let's go |
| 0:49.0 | explore the galaxy, shall we? This week we're travelling back in time to the age of the dinosaurs |
| 0:54.6 | to look not at the deadly beasts, but at the plants this time out. With more animals around, |
| 1:02.0 | plants have to get clever too. Some grew spikes. Others developed poisons or unpleasant |
| 1:08.6 | tastes to put herbivores off eating them. Watch out, something massive's on the moon. |
| 1:18.5 | Also we'll chat to the amazing, the genius biologist Ben Garrett about some dangerous creatures |
| 1:24.5 | that aren't around anymore. This skeleton was made of this rubbery, flexible material called |
| 1:29.6 | cartilage, the same stuff you get in your ears and your nose. So it's hard to rebuild the skeletons |
| 1:34.4 | of sharks. They don't preserve in the same way that our bones do, or even a T-rex, for example, |
| 1:40.4 | or even something like a smile adon or a dometradon, which have more bone-based skeletons. However, |
| 1:46.4 | we can still recreate what those animals look like from... And for this week's Dangerous Down, |
| 1:51.7 | we've got another animal with ferocious farts, plus your questions all on the way in a brand new |
| 1:56.8 | fun kid science weekly. Let's start this week's episode off with your science in the news. |
| 2:08.4 | And we're going back to the good old James Webb Space Telescope to kick things off today. |
| 2:13.2 | You'll remember this. It's the huge telescope that NASA launched into space on Christmas day. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Fun Kids, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Fun Kids and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.