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Hello, Leah here with Wednesday's Newsround. | :00:16. | :00:17. | |
First exciting news for dinosaur fans. | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
Over 100 fossilised footprints have been found on the Isle of Skye, | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
They're from the largest dinosaurs that ever lived, the sauropods, | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
They lived at what was the the biggest dinosaur site in Scotland. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
We always want to find dinosaur bones, but sometimes people | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
But in many ways footprints are more valuable. | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
Records of dinosaurs moving around right here. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
So we can tell a lot about how big they were and how they moved. | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
So what are the top five dinosaur discoveries that changed the world? | :00:52. | :01:01. | |
Number one goes to the Megalosaurus Bucklandii, discovered | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
It's a massive deal because it is a massive deal because | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
it is the earliest discovered and scientifically analysed dinosaur. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Although we have fossils of its bones, jaws and teeth, | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
In at two is the Archaeopteryx lithographica, a fossil found back | :01:17. | :01:28. | |
in 1860, by accident in a quarry in Germany with a crow sized body | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
The fossil is a big deal because around the birds bones were | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
It's the first evidence that birds and dinosaurs were close relatives. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
The diplodocus skeleton, discovered by a man called | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
It's the biggest dinosaur in the world | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
and he found a complete skeleton back in the 1890s in the USA. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Carnegie made replicas of it and sent them to museums | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
around the world, including one that's at the National History | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
In at four is the Deinonychus antirrhopus, or Terrible Claw. | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
This feisty fellow was discovered back in the 1960s America was the | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
first time we realised that dinosaurs can be fast moving, highly | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Finally at five it's the Sinosauropteryx. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
In 1996 it was discovered in China, virtually complete. | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
The most exciting part was the trace of a wispy fringe | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
This led to the discovery that many dinosaurs were actually feathered | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
Next to the superfast, prehistoric mega-shark called a megladon. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Megladon millions of years ago and looked like a white shark but it was | :02:42. | :03:00. | |
much heavier. Its teeth could grow up to 18 centimetres, roughly the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
size of my palm. Until now no one knew just how fast it was and it was | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
one of the speediest in the sea. It swam at five metres a second, double | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
the speed of the great white shark, the fastest land and oceans now. It | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
is faster than a dolphin and its wings at 3.4 metres a second. The | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
Greenland shark is the slowest swimming shark that covers three | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
metres a second. It was bigger and heavier and had to swim faster to | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
keep oxygen pumping around its body to survive. | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
Now, who doesn't love an online cat video? | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
We all do, and now they could soon also be big stars at the cinema too. | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
With some films already shown in the UK and America, | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
Colin Paterson's been finding out if it really is a purrfect idea. | :03:44. | :03:57. | |
Thousands in a field watching cat videos. It was nice to know that I | :03:58. | :04:04. | |
am not the only weirdo who sits on the Internet and watches animal | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
videos. In Minneapolis there is now an international cat video Festival. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
There are all these good-natured people coming together to do | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
something unbelievably ridiculous. It could become common in Britain. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
There have already been dedicated events in both Deptford and Glasgow. | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
It is cats! I love cats. Not everyone is convinced these antics | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
really belong on the big screen. My reservations are about why people | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
would come out for something that is freely available online to them. | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
With millions watching online every day and some Internet cats already | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
having their own agents, it could be the likes of Angelina Jolie and Don | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
-- Johnny Depp that will struggle for time at the local cinema. | :04:54. | :04:54. | |
That's all from me and the Newsround team. Ayshah's back in the morning. | :04:55. | :04:59. |