Discovery of New Zealand

Abel Tasman was a Dutch explorer who was the first European to discover New Zealand. He named it Staten Land. He sailed around the outskirts of  the land and mapped the country. Later, Dutch cartographers renamed it Nieuw Zeeland after the province they came from, Zeeland {sealand} Even later on, a British explorer named Captain Cook was the first European to set foot on the land and re named it New Zealand to anglicise

Big Fluffy Birds From Hell

Scientists have discovered a winged dinosaur  an ancestor of the velociraptor  that they say was on the cusp of becoming a bird.

 

The 2 metre tall creature was almost perfectly preserved in limestone, thanks to a volcanic eruption that had buried it in north-east China.

And the 125 million-year-old fossil suggests many other dinosaurs, including velociraptors, would have looked like “big, fluffy killer birds.

It has short arms, and it is covered in feathers.

The dinosaur has been named Zhenyuanlong.

 

I chose this topic because I like dinosaurs.

Others may like this topic because dinosaurs are creatures from so long ago and they are interesting because they are very old and are extinct which is cool because its crazy to think that long of a time ago we could use them as pets.

Cow Facts

There are 4.9 million milking cows in New Zealand!.

Cows live in groups called herds the average herd size in New Zealand is 444.

The average dairy farm size 155ha  1 ha is about the size of a international rugby field.

The South Island has 29% of NZ dairy cows.

Cows spend most of their time eating their jaws move more that 40,000 times a day.

The Waikoto region has the most herds with 22% of dairy cows living there.

There are 50,000 people employed in the dairy sector to help look after these cows and to help create the milk products we love.

 

I think I drink 4 litres of water and eat 850 grams of food a day.