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Hi, guys, Leah here with speeding sports cars, super seal pups and | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
what's up with Man United and Moyes, all coming up on Newsround. | :00:08. | :00:17. | |
But first to the mystery of what scientists say is one of the most | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
amazing fossil discoveries ever - a graveyard full of five million year | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
old whale bones was found in a desert in South America in 2011 but | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
no one could figure out how they got there - until now. Here's Ayshah | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
with more. Cerro Ballena, Spanish for Whale | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Hill, in Chile's Atacama Desert. This area is well known for its | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
fossils. But the huge discovery of 2011 was on another level. | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Scientists were left baffled after uncovering skeletons of over 40 | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
whales, as well as other animals, dating back more than five million | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
years. Now experts think they've worked out why such a large number | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
of the mammals ended up in the same spot. They think it was caused by | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
whales getting stranded on four separate occasions. The evidence | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
suggests they died at sea after swallowing toxic algae - a group of | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
tiny plant-like creatures. The dead mammals were then washed towards the | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
coast, where they became buried by sand and preserved over time. This | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
really is one of the best finds for a long time. We have young and old | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
animals in the sample. It is a cross-section of a single population | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
and it is a fabulous opportunity to examine how that population might | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
have looked. Researchers scanned the bones with the latest 3D technology, | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
which means they can print them in plastic to study them further. It | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
should help us learn new things about whales and other species on | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
Earth. Back in the UK, seal pups orphaned | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
after extreme weather on the east coast of England have been released | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
back into the wild. 100 pups were brought to the wildlife hospital in | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Norfolk after a major rescue mission in December. And today eight of them | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
were sent back out into the North Sea. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
Next to the question of what is going on at Manchester United? Last | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
night their bad season got worse when they lost 2-0 to the worst team | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
left in the Champions League. It's another disappointment for a side | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
used to success and some of you told Ricky who you think's to blame. I | :02:13. | :02:22. | |
think it is David Moyes. He thinks is -- I think the club is going | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
wrong. I think it is the players not | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
putting enough ever done. I think it is David Moyes. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
And you can see loads more of your comments on this on the Newsround | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
website. And that's also where you can check | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
this out - the record breaking Venom GT. The makers reckon it's broken | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
the land speed record for a sports car after clocking 270 miles per | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
hour on a runway in Florida. It needs to do two lengths of the | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
runway but that was not passable. But I'll leave you with the clip | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
that's kept us laughing all | :03:00. | :03:00. |