02/12/2015 Newsround


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Hello, Leah here with Wednesday's Newsround.

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First exciting news for dinosaur fans.

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Over 100 fossilised footprints have been found on the Isle of Skye,

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They're from the largest dinosaurs that ever lived, the sauropods,

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They lived at what was the the biggest dinosaur site in Scotland.

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We always want to find dinosaur bones, but sometimes people

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But in many ways footprints are more valuable.

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Records of dinosaurs moving around right here.

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So we can tell a lot about how big they were and how they moved.

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So what are the top five dinosaur discoveries that changed the world?

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Number one goes to the Megalosaurus Bucklandii, discovered

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It's a massive deal because it is a massive deal because

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it is the earliest discovered and scientifically analysed dinosaur.

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Although we have fossils of its bones, jaws and teeth,

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In at two is the Archaeopteryx lithographica, a fossil found back

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in 1860, by accident in a quarry in Germany with a crow sized body

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The fossil is a big deal because around the birds bones were

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It's the first evidence that birds and dinosaurs were close relatives.

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The diplodocus skeleton, discovered by a man called

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It's the biggest dinosaur in the world

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and he found a complete skeleton back in the 1890s in the USA.

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Carnegie made replicas of it and sent them to museums

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around the world, including one that's at the National History

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In at four is the Deinonychus antirrhopus, or Terrible Claw.

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This feisty fellow was discovered back in the 1960s America was the

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first time we realised that dinosaurs can be fast moving, highly

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Finally at five it's the Sinosauropteryx.

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In 1996 it was discovered in China, virtually complete.

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The most exciting part was the trace of a wispy fringe

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This led to the discovery that many dinosaurs were actually feathered

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Next to the superfast, prehistoric mega-shark called a megladon.

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Megladon millions of years ago and looked like a white shark but it was

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much heavier. Its teeth could grow up to 18 centimetres, roughly the

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size of my palm. Until now no one knew just how fast it was and it was

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one of the speediest in the sea. It swam at five metres a second, double

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the speed of the great white shark, the fastest land and oceans now. It

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is faster than a dolphin and its wings at 3.4 metres a second. The

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Greenland shark is the slowest swimming shark that covers three

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metres a second. It was bigger and heavier and had to swim faster to

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keep oxygen pumping around its body to survive.

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Now, who doesn't love an online cat video?

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We all do, and now they could soon also be big stars at the cinema too.

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With some films already shown in the UK and America,

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Colin Paterson's been finding out if it really is a purrfect idea.

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Thousands in a field watching cat videos. It was nice to know that I

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am not the only weirdo who sits on the Internet and watches animal

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videos. In Minneapolis there is now an international cat video Festival.

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There are all these good-natured people coming together to do

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something unbelievably ridiculous. It could become common in Britain.

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There have already been dedicated events in both Deptford and Glasgow.

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It is cats! I love cats. Not everyone is convinced these antics

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really belong on the big screen. My reservations are about why people

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would come out for something that is freely available online to them.

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With millions watching online every day and some Internet cats already

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having their own agents, it could be the likes of Angelina Jolie and Don

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-- Johnny Depp that will struggle for time at the local cinema.

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That's all from me and the Newsround team. Ayshah's back in the morning.

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