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Student Article
Why Your Brain Thinks This Puppy Is Cuter Than a Baby!
The article "Why your brain thinks this puppy is cuter than a baby!" from BBC Science Focus explains why our brains react so strongly to cuteness and why baby animals often seem cuter than human infants. Using brain scans, scientists reveal how features like big eyes and round faces activate our emotional centers, triggering care instincts — even for animals and cartoons.
Video
Why We Love Baby Animals

In Why We Love Baby Animals, host Harith Iskander explores the science behind the overwhelming urge humans feel to squeeze or cuddle baby animals. This feeling, known as cute aggression, is an evolutionary response. The brain releases dopamine, making us feel happy and protective when we see something cute. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Got Science?, a science magazine series that explores and explains science in everyday life.

Playlist (12 resources)
Ducklings, Seal Pups, and Elephant Calves: The Baby Animal Playlist

Get ready for cuteness overload with this heartwarming playlist of baby animal videos! Watch ducklings wobble, elephants splash, wildebeests race, seals snooze, and otters play with endless charm. Perfect for captivating your class while sneaking in a little science, these clips will have your students saying “aww” while you say, “This totally counts as learning!”

Printable
Floppy-tastic! Make the Cutest Paper Chain Ever With Bluey

Fold, snip, and unfold to create paperchains with loads of Floppys. So cute! Here's how:

  1. Color the Floppys. Ask a grown-up to help you cut out the strips along the black dashed lines.
  2. Fold back and fold along the white dotted lines (don't snip!). Then cut along the orange dashed lines. Now unfold your Floppy paper chains!

Top Tip: Glue the pages to pink paper before you snip out, so that it looks nice on the back too! Add cotton wool bunny tails to the back of your Floppys.

Video
Inside a Panda Den with the Go Jetters

In Inside a Panda Den with the Go Jetters, the Go Jetters crew helps build a panda’s den and they learn all about these cute and amazing animals. Ubercorn shares funky facts about pandas, including how much bamboo they eat, and why they are endangered. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Go Jetters, a series that follows the adventures of four international heroes as they travel the globe visiting landmarks and solving environmental problems with Ubercorn, a disco-dancing unicorn.