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VAMPIRE MYSTERY: Archaeologists Examine a Strange Burial🧛‍♂️🦴

Fun Kids Science Quest

Fun Kids

Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's still time for another BIG and BRILLIANT adventure into the world of science on this week’s Science Quest!

In Science in the News, a rare turtle rescued in the UK begins the next stage of its recovery, scientists discover that snakes don’t get hungry in the same way humans do, and archaeologist Nataša Sarkic joins Dan to investigate the remains of a so-called “vampire” found in a grave at Račesa, a fortress in eastern Croatia.

It’s time for your questions too. Leo wants to know how chameleons change colour, and Simon Green from the Open University answers Roscoe’s big space question: just how hot is the Sun’s core?

Dangerous Dan introduces the bizarre hag moth, and in Battle of the Sciences, we head beneath the ice with glaciologist Sammie Buzzard from the UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling to uncover what glaciers can teach us about our planet.

Plus, in Space Cadets, Harry and Terry blast off on an accidental adventure to the Sun to discover more about the star at the centre of our Solar System.

What we learn about:

  • How rescued sea turtles recover

  • Why snakes don’t feel hunger like humans

  • The truth behind a “vampire” burial in Croatia

  • How chameleons change colour

  • How hot the Sun’s core really is

  • The unusual hag moth

  • What glaciologists study beneath the ice

All that and more on this week’s Science Quest!

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0:00.0

Welcome along, Explorer. Life's pretty boring down here on planet Earth. So let's take a quick

0:05.6

trip around the solar system. Let's find all those secrets. It's a brand new science quest.

0:12.1

Yes, my name is Dan. Around here, we go on awesome adventures right across the universe. We find

0:17.8

out amazing things. We study deadly beasts and we answer your questions.

0:22.6

Now this week, well, we're always travelling through the solar system, but here we'll go right

0:27.0

into the heart of it, seeing what powers our sun. And gravity is pulling all the material of the

0:33.8

sun in. The energy that's being produced is forcing it out and you have a kind of balance.

0:39.3

And so these nuclear reactions go on. The amount of energy that's produced is equivalent to about

0:45.7

100,000 trillion power stations on the earth. Also, you can hear all about a deadly walking hairball and we're exploring a mysterious

0:59.2

frozen world hiding under the ice. Well, we know that the ice is definitely decreasing, the amount of

1:07.6

ice that we have. It is melting as our planet is warming. And some areas

1:11.4

are changing faster than others. So Antarctica, for example, because it's a really big piece of ice,

1:16.7

it changes quite slowly. But in the Alps, we can see those changes, even going back there year and

1:21.7

year, we can see that the glaciers are getting smaller. It's all on the way in a brand new science

1:26.9

quest. Let's all on the way in a brand new science quest.

1:37.0

Let's start with your science in the news. A rare turtle that was taken to the UK after being rescued in Jersey, it's begun the next stage of its rehabilitation at a rescue centre.

1:43.9

It's a loggerhead turtle, brilliantly named crush.

1:47.7

It's been in a huge quarantine tank.

1:50.6

It was brought to Weymouth Sea Life Centre at the start of February.

1:54.1

Now it was found washed up on a beach and apparently lifeless.

1:57.3

So they brought it in, they put it in this tank.

1:59.4

They've kept it there safe and clean,

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