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Ricky here with your breakfast headlines. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Stick around, cos you don't want to miss this. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The biggest bird that ever took flight - we find out about | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
And who'll win between Brazil and Germany in the World Cup semifinal? | :00:10. | :00:16. | |
We ask our own big bird, Ronaldo, the Newsround parrot. | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
First up - you can keep your eagles, condors and albatrosses, | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
because scientists in America say they've discovered the biggest bird | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
The giant creature had an estimated wingspan of over 7 metres, | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
making it twice the size of the biggest flying bird alive today. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
It would've been almost as big as a small plane! | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
Scientists think it lived about 25 million years ago, after | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
Joining me now is Dr Victoria Egerton, a fossil expert | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
Victoria, how exciting is this discovery - this is genuinely | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
This is a huge discovery. This bird had the largest wingspan known to | :01:02. | :01:20. | |
all birds. We can see on the wall, this picture would have been the | :01:21. | :01:28. | |
very width of the bird. That is massive! It is massive. A modern | :01:29. | :01:37. | |
albatross is about two times smaller than that. To show you in more | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
detail at home, here I am, stacked up 12 times, and that again is the | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
width of the bird. It was enormous. This is the actual size behind us | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
here on the wall. Can you tell us more about what can to eight, when | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
it flew, rhythmic? It lived on the eastern sea bird of the US. -- | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
seaboard. It ate things like eels and slimy fish. The way it could | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
grab those are these long, spiky teeth like structures. But they were | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
actually bones, so it would have been able to grab onto these slimy | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
things. Finding out more about it, is it exciting? Definitely, it | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
pushes the limits of how big these birds really could fly, they flew | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
around over the ocean without having to flap, which is pretty nice. Thank | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
you very much for joining us. What an absolutely amazing | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
discovery. And if you've not had your fill | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
of gigantic animals, get on our website, where you can | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
check out our gallery of the biggest beasts in history, as well as the | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
most massive mammals alive today. Next, a schoolboy who saved his | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
sister's life has backed calls for St John ambulance is launching a new | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
campaign to teach children the basic skills to help anyone in trouble | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
and Jenny's been to find out more. Learning how to react to accidents | :02:56. | :03:09. | |
is an important skill, but it is not always easy to find the time. Check | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
out this first aid session with a difference. It is being streamed to | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
children live across the UK. Around 1000 schools are watching the web | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
show at the same time, it is being run by St John Ambulance. It is an | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
interactive chat where schools can ask questions, quiz and even the | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
opportunity to get a step to get. We want as many young kids to learn | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
first aid because it is the difference between a life saved and | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
a life lost. At the moment, schools and the UK do not have to teach, but | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
James knows how important it can be. My sister fell to the floor on her | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
birthday in the middle-of-the-road and had an epileptic fit. I saved | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
her life with the first aid skills I lined. This is one of the schools | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
taking part. I have come to watch it with some children and find out what | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
they think of this new way of learning. I think this new way of | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
learning about it is very good, the cost lots of people can do it at the | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
same time. I think it is an important part of your life, because | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
they committed offence to somebody's life and helping people. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
The quiz was a good idea because if you got the answer wrong, they could | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
explain it and tell you why. The team behind the webcast say more | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
lessons like this are planned for the future and hopefully, it could | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
help save lives. OK, to the World Cup, and today's | :04:34. | :04:34. | |
top fact on the website tells you that tonight's semifinalists, | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
Germany and Brazil, are the most consistent finalists - they have | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
each reached the final seven times. Brazil will be without | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
their star player, Neymar, after his tournament finished | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
when he was stretchered off with Coach Felipe Scolari says the injury | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
has given his team extra focus. This is the match we will be playing | :04:48. | :05:04. | |
not only for ourselves, but for our country. Everything that we dream of | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
and so, not least, for Neymar, where everything he has done for us. That | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
is something we have been able to overcome. | :05:14. | :05:14. | |
So, what does Ronaldo, the Newsround parrot, | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
It's fair to say his initially brilliant World Cup predictions went | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
So, there you have it - it's Germany. | :05:21. | :05:51. | |
We'll find out tonight, and Newsround's back this afternoon. | :05:52. | :06:01. | |
Don't forget, the website is there with all the top stories. | :06:02. | :06:02. |