ZOMBIE BUGS: How Creepy Creatures Turn Bugs Into Puppets 🪲🧟‍♂️

Fun Kids Science Weekly

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🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s time for another trip around the solar system on the BIGGER and BETTER Science Weekly!

In this episode of the Fun Kids Science Weekly, we answer YOUR questions, have scientists battle it out to determine which science is the best, and this week we're learning all about why the rainbow only has seven coulurs!

First, we reveal a surprising fact about the world’s oldest boomerang — it doesn’t come back!
Next, we meet a brand-new dinosaur that’s just been discovered. And finally, John Pinnegar from CEFAS joins us to explain how warmer weather is drawing endangered sharks to UK waters.

Then, we answer your questions! Etta wants to know: Why we need food and Richard Bowman answers Marcus' question- Why does the rainbow only have seven colours?

In Dangerous Dan, we learn all about the Pacman Frog

In Battle of the Sciences, science writer Mindy Weisberger joins Dan to discuss some of the biggest stories she's worked on in the world of science.

What do we learn about?

· A newly discovered dinosaur
· How the warm weather is impacting UK seas
· Why the rainbow has only seven colours
· The Pacman Frog
· And in Battle of the Sciences... zombie bugs!

All on this week's episode of Science Weekly!

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0:00.0	Hello, Explorer. Welcome along to The Smartest Show. In the Solar System, let's search out all those
0:06.8	science secrets in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly. My name is Dan, and if you've ever
0:13.3	wondered why the rainbow stops at seven colors, we've got the answer this week.
0:19.7	The classic seven, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
0:24.8	Sure, if that's what you're looking for, that's what you'll see.
0:28.3	But what about greenish yellow?
0:30.8	Is that a colour?
0:31.9	Is that a mixture of two colours?
0:33.4	Greenish yellow's in the rainbow.
0:35.9	Oh, so you can hear about a dangerous beast who's named after one of the most famous game
0:41.8	characters ever.
0:43.2	And in Battle of the Sciences, we've got a little different one this week chatting to a science
0:46.7	writer about some of the biggest most wild science stories they've ever covered.
0:53.1	There are zomifying wasps, there are zombifying fungi, there are zombifying worms,
0:58.3	there are zombifying flies.
0:59.5	So there are all of these different organisms that infect a host, and then they change the
1:04.4	host's behavior so that the zomifier can reproduce.
1:08.5	It's all on the way in a brand new Fun Kids Science Weekly.
1:15.3	Let's start with your science in the news.
1:18.0	And it turns out the world's oldest boomerang doesn't come back.
1:22.5	The tour was found in a cave in Poland and it's older than we previously thought.
1:26.8	Experts date it back 40,000 years.
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