26/02/2014 Newsround


26/02/2014

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Hi, guys, Leah here with speeding sports cars, super seal pups and

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what's up with Man United and Moyes, all coming up on Newsround.

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But first to the mystery of what scientists say is one of the most

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amazing fossil discoveries ever - a graveyard full of five million year

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old whale bones was found in a desert in South America in 2011 but

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no one could figure out how they got there - until now. Here's Ayshah

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with more. Cerro Ballena, Spanish for Whale

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Hill, in Chile's Atacama Desert. This area is well known for its

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fossils. But the huge discovery of 2011 was on another level.

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Scientists were left baffled after uncovering skeletons of over 40

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whales, as well as other animals, dating back more than five million

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years. Now experts think they've worked out why such a large number

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of the mammals ended up in the same spot. They think it was caused by

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whales getting stranded on four separate occasions. The evidence

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suggests they died at sea after swallowing toxic algae - a group of

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tiny plant-like creatures. The dead mammals were then washed towards the

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coast, where they became buried by sand and preserved over time. This

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really is one of the best finds for a long time. We have young and old

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animals in the sample. It is a cross-section of a single population

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and it is a fabulous opportunity to examine how that population might

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have looked. Researchers scanned the bones with the latest 3D technology,

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which means they can print them in plastic to study them further. It

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should help us learn new things about whales and other species on

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Earth. Back in the UK, seal pups orphaned

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after extreme weather on the east coast of England have been released

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back into the wild. 100 pups were brought to the wildlife hospital in

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Norfolk after a major rescue mission in December. And today eight of them

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were sent back out into the North Sea.

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Next to the question of what is going on at Manchester United? Last

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night their bad season got worse when they lost 2-0 to the worst team

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left in the Champions League. It's another disappointment for a side

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used to success and some of you told Ricky who you think's to blame. I

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think it is David Moyes. He thinks is -- I think the club is going

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wrong. I think it is the players not

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putting enough ever done. I think it is David Moyes.

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And you can see loads more of your comments on this on the Newsround

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website. And that's also where you can check

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this out - the record breaking Venom GT. The makers reckon it's broken

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the land speed record for a sports car after clocking 270 miles per

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hour on a runway in Florida. It needs to do two lengths of the

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runway but that was not passable. But I'll leave you with the clip

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that's kept us laughing all

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