30/05/2016 Newsround


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Good morning, Ayshah here with your bank holiday Monday Newsround.

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Stay tuned for all of this: The 16-year-old British BMX

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superstar, and the wing suit pilot taking to the skies in China.

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First to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, where it's thought

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as much as a third of the coral there has been destroyed.

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It's known for being home to some of the world's most

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Australian scientists say it's because of something called

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This happens when the water is too warm and the coral weakens,

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losing the colourful algae that provide oxygen and nutrients.

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Let's take a look at some sport results.

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First to Formula 1, and Lewis Hamilton is a very happy man.

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He's won his first race of the season in Monaco,

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beating his team-mate Nico Rosberg and cutting Rosberg's lead

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in the championship to just 22 points.

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And now to a sport we don't often hear about, the World BMX

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Championships in Colombia, South America.

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Teenager Bethany Shriever from Essex took part over the weekend.

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She represented Great Britain at junior level in the competition

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and earned herself a time trial silver medal.

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We've been to meet the 16-year-old to find out more about her

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My name's Bethany Shriever, and I'm a BMX racer for Team GB.

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I got involved in the sport of BMX when I was eight years

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One of his friends invited us down the track, and he gave me one

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of these and one of these, and I fell in love.

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BMX bikes are smaller and harder than most bikes.

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It's so they can take everything we put them through.

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They're made to be strong, because the track is really

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There are lots of jumps on the track, made on a really

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hard surface so that you can go really fast.

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These bikes are for tracks like this, whereas mountain

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bikes are made to go through puddles and mud.

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This month I'm heading to Colombia to compete in the BMX

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World Championships, representing my country.

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There will be loads of people competing from all over the world,

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but I'm the only girl competing for the UK in junior level.

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If you want to give it a go, get down to your local track.

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You don't have to be mad to do it, but it does help!

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To something that's really, really old -

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this fossilised skeleton of a massive sea reptile that lived

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The ancient bones were discovered at a quarry near Peterborough,

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and have been carefully put back together by scientists, who

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This is a fossil of a plesiosaur, which is a reptile that lived

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in the sea during the time of the dinosaurs.

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It was a very unusual-looking animal, nothing like anything

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It would have had a really long neck sticking out the front,

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a sort of barrel-shaped body, four large flippers

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shaped like wings almost, and a short tail at the back.

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Scientists have come up with a pretty interesting way

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The animals are an endangered species, but now it's hoped

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koala-tracking dogs might be able to find the animal by

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sniffing out their poo, or as they call it, scat.

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This is Maya, and she's on the hunt for koalas.

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The great thing with dogs as they can smell what we can't see.

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Koala poo smells very much of eucalyptus, and so they can help

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In many parts of Australia, their numbers are declining

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because of habitat destruction, so researchers are trying to figure

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out which are the most important areas to keep protected.

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You need a lot of stamina, because you have to cover a lot

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of ground and look under each tree for scats.

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For Maya, that is not a problem, she is playing, and she is 20 times

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And most importantly for conservation, she is 150% more

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accurate, so that means she finding scats where humans are not.

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For habitat protection, this is critical.

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But even the best detectors need to keep their skills up

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It's very simple, because we don't want to take her into the bush

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and for her to start indicating on possum poo or Eastern grey poo.

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We want to make sure that Maya knows what koala poo is,

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and excludes any other marsupial poo.

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If you think about it, dogs don't go to work for a salary.

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They go to work and for them it is playing.

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And on top of that, for this pup, tracking and playing fetch

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A US wing-suit pilot has attempted to hit an apple-size target dangling

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Jeb Corliss successfully did it, travelling at 120 miles per hour.

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He has also jumped from the Eiffel Tower in Paris

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and the Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur in the past.

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Top Gear came back on telly last night.

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New presenters Chris Evans and co-host Matt LeBlanc

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took to roads in the US, Morocco and in the UK.

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People have been talking about the new show

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on social media, with some not liking it without the previous

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But others enjoying the new presenters,

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We want to know what you think about the new Top Gear.

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