TIGER STRIPES: Their CRAZY Camouflage Trick 🐯🔍

Fun Kids Science Weekly

Fun Kids

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🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for another journey through the weirdest, wildest, and most wonderful parts of science on the Fun Kids Science Weekly!

In this episode, we answer YOUR questions, crown a new champion in Battle of the Sciences, and uncover the amazing science hiding in animal patterns.

First up, we discover that a meteorite which landed in the USA is actually older than planet Earth itself! Then, we sink our teeth into a new study showing that dinosaurs were surprisingly fussy eaters, before heading to Patagonia with Professor Neill Gasser to learn why the Perito Moreno Glacier is changing so rapidly.

Next, it's time for your questions...Maddie wants to know how far space goes, and Dr László Tálas reveals why tigers are covered in so many stripes!

In Dangerous Dan, we meet the Scolopendra catapora centipede — a venomous, lightning-fast creepy-crawly you definitely wouldn’t want to meet in the wild.

And in Battle of the Sciences, Professor Cock van Oosterhout makes the case for Evolutionary Genetics, revealing the science behind what makes you… YOU!

Plus, the Aquanauts uncover why fresh water is so rare on Earth and the ingenious ways scientists are finding new sources to keep our planet hydrated.

What do we learn about?
· How a meteorite can be older than planet Earth
· Why dinosaurs were picky eaters
· The secrets behind tiger stripes
· The venomous Scolopendra catapora centipede
· And in Battle of the Sciences… how Evolutionary Genetics shapes every one of us!

All on this week’s episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	All right, explorer, are you ready? I say it's time to leave planet Earth. Let's take a quick spin around the universe and search out some secrets, eh? It's the Fun Kids Science Weekly.
0:13.0	My name's Dan, and this week, and the only show that really does reveal what's happening in our galaxy,'ll look at tigers. Have you ever wondered why
0:22.6	they are, well, so striped from nose to their tail? We'll look at the clever science and
0:28.6	the survival secrets behind their bold patterns. Tigers are stripy. It's quite interesting, especially
0:36.3	compared to leopards who are spotty and lions,
0:39.8	who don't have stripes whatsoever. We believe that stripes are there to break up the shape of the tiger.
0:47.9	Also in Battle of the Sciences, we uncover what makes you, you.
0:55.9	And the DNA is basically that are these letters
0:58.0	that make up the code,
1:00.1	the genetic code that instruct
1:01.9	the proteins
1:03.8	to produce a healthy
1:06.0	individual. And for our
1:08.0	dangerous town, we're finding a centipede
1:10.0	that can swim.
1:11.3	It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:17.9	Let's start with your science in the news.
1:20.5	A meteorite that crash landed in the United States of America is older than planet Earth.
1:26.7	Scientists from the University of Georgia have examined a fragment of the rock, and they found
1:32.5	that it probably formed four and a half billion years ago.
1:35.9	It's 20 million years older than Earth.
1:38.7	Now, people in Georgia, the state where it landed, where it actually smashed into a house,
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