Why we need bees and the flesh-eating shark that lives for 500 years!
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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You might not realise it but bees are super important to life on Earth and without them we wouldn't have enough plants and crops to go around. Phil Stevenson, Professor of Plants at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, is here to tell us more about this small but mighty creature!
We delve to the bottom of the ocean with Sean & Robot from the Fun Kids Breakfast Show to find out how submarines work, discover how the Earth was made and discover the terrifying flesh-eating shark that can live for up to 500 years!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a podcast from the children's radio station Fun Kids. Listen on DAB digital radio across the UK or online at funkidslive.com. |
| 0:09.9 | Look at this. It's another brand new episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly. My name is Dan and this is the show where only people who are curious about what really goes on in the universe are allowed. |
| 0:23.8 | This week we are solving the puzzle of the Frankenstein dinosaur. In Dangerestan as well, |
| 0:30.0 | we'll look at the world's largest flesh-eating shark and we'll discover the strange things |
| 0:35.2 | that it does with its eyes. And in a sec, we are chatting to a beat expert from Kew Gardens about why the insects are so important to the world. |
| 0:43.0 | First, we're heading back in time, right, to find out how dinosaurs coped with a cataclysmic change. |
| 0:49.5 | Travel back in time to the age of the dinosaur at the Natural History Museum. |
| 1:02.0 | Imagine going back in time, the age of the dinosaur at the Natural History Museum. Imagine going back in time, not 100 years or 1,000 years, but millions of years. |
| 1:09.0 | To the age of the dinosaur. |
| 1:14.6 | About 145 million years ago, the Jurassic period ended, and the Cretaceous began. |
| 1:19.6 | More dinosaurs lived during the Cretaceous period than any other. |
| 1:24.6 | In fact, the world offered a wider variety of environments and species than before. |
| 1:31.8 | Uh-oh, we're on the move again. Hold on tight. Whilst the two main continents, La Raysia and Kondwana, |
| 1:41.5 | had been slowly moving apart for millennia. During the Cretaceous period, |
| 1:46.0 | they began to break up to form the continents we know today. Oceans still covered most |
| 1:54.0 | of the planet and many low-lying areas were underwater. At this time, you wouldn't have been |
| 2:00.0 | able to travel from one side of America |
| 2:01.6 | to the other without a boat. There was a shallow ocean in the middle. As the land broke apart, |
| 2:10.6 | dinosaur species became separated from one another and had to adapt to new and different environments |
| 2:16.6 | from wet, cold and rainy to hot and dry. |
| 2:20.3 | There were still leafy forests where huge plant eaters like mutterburosaurus would graze. |
| 2:27.3 | Mutterburosaurus, which was eight meters long, lived in what is now Australia and ate plants like cycads and ferns. |
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