The Big Wonder

My son's favourite dinosaur is the T. rex, and my daughter's is the triceratops. She does a very good triceratops charge! But nobody alive has ever seen a living dinosaur, so how can we be so sure they were real?

I've got three possible answers to that question: one is true, one is made up, and one sounds true but isn't. Can you guess which is which? Listen out for today's Wonder Words too.

Wonder Kids will find out how we know dinosaurs were real, how fossils are made, and how scientists work out how old they are.

What's your favourite dinosaur, Wonder Kids? Have it ready and let's dig in together.

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Have you ever tried a spicy crisp, a dab of sauce or a mouthful of someone's curry, and felt your tongue blaze like it was on fire? Yet if you touched that food with your fingers, it probably wouldn't feel warm at all. So why does spicy food feel so hot?

Wonder Kids will find out why spicy foods taste hot, discover which animal can gobble the hottest chillies without even noticing, how an American pharmacist found a way to measure spiciness back in 1912, and just how fiery the world's hottest pepper is.

There are three possible answers to weigh up: one true, one made up, and one that sounds true but isn't. Can you guess which is which? Listen out for today's Wonder Words, too.

Grab a glass of water, Wonder Kids, and let's turn up the heat.

- Kim

www.dailywondershow.com

Picture sitting down to dinner straight after digging in the mud, stroking the dog and using the toilet, and nobody reminding you to wash your hands. Today that sounds unthinkable, but for most of human history it was completely normal. People simply had no idea anything was on their hands at all. So how did scientists find out that germs make you sick?

Wonder Kids will find out why some doctors long ago walked around holding bunches of flowers and herbs up to their noses, and travel back to London in 1854, when a doctor called John Snow went from house to house in Soho with a map and noticed a pattern nobody else had spotted.

Before the answer is revealed, there are three possible explanations to weigh up: one true, one made up, and one that sounds true but isn’t. Can your child work out which is which? Listen out for today’s Wonder Words too.

Ready to play detective, Wonder Kids? It’s a mystery that took people thousands of years to solve.

- Kim

www.dailywondershow.com