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New tortoise is discovered - level 1
This news is about tortoises. Tortoises live in the Galapagos Islands.
People discover a new type of tortoise. It lives in a 39-square-kilometre area. There are around 250 tortoises of this type.
They live in the east of Santa Cruz Island.
The new species is different genetically. It also looks different.
Difficult words: discover (to find), species (a type of animal), genetically (what an animal or person comes from).
New tortoise is discovered - level 2
People identified a new species of giant tortoise in the Galapagos Islands.
The new species lives in a 39-square-kilometre area in the east of Santa Cruz Island. There are around 250 of the newly discovered tortoises, and they are genetically different from a large group of tortoises that live in the western part of the island.
In addition to genetic differences, the two Santa Cruz Island species are also different in the shapesof their shells.
Difficult words: species (an animal kind), shape (what something looks like), shell (the hard body part which protects the tortoise).
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New tortoise is discovered - level 3
A new species of giant tortoise has been identified in the Galapagos Islands. Scientists used genetic data to determine that a group of 250 of the slow-moving grazing reptiles was distinct from other tortoise species residing in the Pacific archipelago.
The newly identified species lives in a 15-square-mile area of Santa Cruz Island and is as different genetically from the other giant tortoise species on the island as species from other islands. The research differentiated the new Eastern Santa Cruz tortoise, given the scientific name “Chelonoidis donfaustoi”, from a larger population of about 2,000 tortoises living about 6 miles away on the western part of the island.
In addition to genetic differences, the two Santa Cruz Island species also differ in the shape of their shell, with the Eastern Santa Cruz tortoise having one with a more compressed shape. It brings the number of Galapagos giant tortoise species to 15.
The new species' scientific name honours a recently retired National Galapagos Park ranger named Fausto Llerena Sanchez, the former caretaker of the famed giant tortoise Lonesome George who died in 2012 at the age of 102.
Difficult words: species (an animal kind), grazing (feeding on grass), reptile (a cold-blooded animal), archipelago (a group of islands), former (-ex).
Source: www.ondemandnews.com
Hurricane Patricia - level 1
This news is about a hurricane. People give it a name. They call it “Patricia”.
The hurricane is very strong. Its winds blow at 241 kilometres per hour. The latest location of the hurricane is 362 kilometres from Mexico.
People in Mexico are getting ready for the hurricane.
Difficult words: wind (the way the air moves), blow (to move), latest (newest).
Hurricane Patricia - level 2
Hurricane Patricia is expected to be the strongest hurricane recorded in the western hemisphere.
The maximum winds of the hurricane reached speeds of about 241 kilometres per hour. The latest location of the hurricane was 362 kilometres from Mexico.
Mexican and American officials are telling people in parts of Mexico to prepare for the hurricane.
Difficult words: expect (to think that something will happen), hemisphere (half of the planet), official(somebody in a position of authority).
Hurricane Patricia - level 3
Despite the idyllic scenery, there's a hurricane on the way, and it's expected to be the strongest hurricane recorded in the western hemisphere.
"Potentially catastrophic", is how Hurricane Patricia is being described. The storm became a hurricane overnight, and had maximum sustained winds of about 150 miles per hour (241 kilometres per hour). Mexico's national water commission reported it has strengthened to a Category 5 storm.
Patricia was last located about 225 miles (362 kilometres) south of the port of Manzanillo, where a hurricane warning has been issued. A Miami-based hurricane centre said the storm could gain more strength before making landfall this evening.
Mexican officials and the United States government are urging people to stay away from beaches, rough seas and to take shelter. Mexican emergency services have begun to prepare shelters and warned people in the states of Colima, Jalisco and Michoacan to get ready for torrential rainfalls.
Difficult words: idyllic (peaceful), sustained (existing for a long time), issue (to set; to tell to many people), gain (to get), urge (to suggest something strongly), rough (not calm), torrential (very heavy).
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Old wreck is found - level 1
A ship is in the Caribbean. It is a Spanish ship. It is full of gold and silver. The ship sinks. Around 600 people die. This happens in 1708.
Now, people find the wreck. They study it. They see cannons. The cannons are bronze.
People want to find the gold and silver, but they must keep looking.
Difficult words: sink (to go down in the water), wreck (a broken thing like a ship or a car), cannon (a big heavy thing on a ship which can shoot giant balls).
Old wreck is found - level 2
People found the wreckage of a ship in Columbian waters. The ship was Spanish and it sank in 1708. Around 600 people died in the shipwreck.
People think that thousands of emeralds, gold and silver coins are in the wreckage. So far, however, sonar only showed us the bronze cannons in the ship. Excavation and scientific tests on the wreck will continue.
We do not know if people will bring parts of the wreckage to dry land.
Difficult words: wreckage (parts of something destroyed), emerald (a bright green stone), sonar (a machine that finds things under the water), excavation (digging, looking for things).
Old wreck is found - level 3
Buried within the wreckage of a Spanish galleon is thought to be thousands of emeralds, and gold and silver coins.
Gold worth hundreds of thousands of pounds have previously been found under the Caribbean seas and the Gulf of Mexico.
Historians think the precious jewels and coins contained within the San Jose sank off the coast of Cartagena in 1708. A team of international experts, the Colombian navy and the country's archaeological institute discovered the wreckage last week near the island of Baru.
The Columbian president said the ship, which sank off the Caribbean coast, was found in Columbian waters. He explained that 600 people died in the shipwreck and that the archaeological discovery corresponds to the lost San Jose galleon ship.
Sonar images have so far revealed bronze cannons made specifically for the ship, ceramics and other artefacts. Archaeological excavation and scientific tests on the wreck will continue to ensure it can be properly preserved.
The San Jose has been the subject of a legal dispute between Colombia and the SSA, a US-based salvage company who claims they found the area where the ship sank. In 2011, a US court agreed the proceeds from the wreckage would belong to Colombia.
It's unclear yet whether the remains will be brought to dry land.
Difficult words: galleon (an old and large sailing ship from Spain), emerald (a bright green stone), precious (of great value), artefact (a historical object), excavation (digging), salvage (to find something in a destroyed place), claim (to say).
