1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,280 Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to kid 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today's story comes to us from Lila and Casper. 3 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: Hey guys, they sent me an awesome idea for a story, 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,439 Speaker 1: and you can too. Just head over to kidshort stories 5 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:19,919 Speaker 1: dot com. Send me your ID and maybe we'll turn 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: it into an awesome adventure. Are you guys ready to 7 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: go on a prehistoric adventure of finding fossils? Me too? 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: Let's go one day. Lila and Casper, we're playing in 9 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: their backyard. They were having lots of fun in their sandbox. 10 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 1: Have you ever played in sand before? Oh? I hope so. Well, 11 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: digging in sand or building with sand is really fun. 12 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 1: But Lilah and Casper they were archaeologists preparing to go 13 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: on a fossil hunt. Wait, what is an archaeologist? Do 14 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 1: you know what an archaeologist is? Oh? An archaeologists. That's 15 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,919 Speaker 1: the one that's the job that they look for dinosaur 16 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: bones or fossils and where do those live? Like, if 17 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: you were to go looking for fossils, would you look 18 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: if they're hanging from trees like apples? No? No, no, no, 19 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:34,360 Speaker 1: they're not hanging from trees. Are they like inside of 20 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: swimming pools. No, usually not not there. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, 21 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: they're usually like maybe in the ground or in a river, 22 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: or maybe on a lake. Yeah, there's lots of places 23 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:53,919 Speaker 1: that you can find some really cool fossils. Well, Lila 24 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: and Casper, they like to hide things in their sandbox 25 00:01:57,760 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: and then go dig for them. Whoa, Casper, look at 26 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: this as Lila pulled out a giant fossil. This was 27 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: a fossil of a real clamshell from a very long 28 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:17,399 Speaker 1: time ago. Wow. Good, fine, Lila, said Casper. All right, 29 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:24,399 Speaker 1: I think there's just two more left. H Oh, here's one, 30 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,959 Speaker 1: said Casper. He had dug in the far corner of 31 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: the sandbox and had found another fossil. And here's the 32 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: last one, said Lila. Wow, I think that's a world record. 33 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever found all our fossils before 34 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: that fast. We're getting pretty good, said Lila. They were 35 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: a great team, Casper and Lila. They loved to dig together. 36 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: But not only that, they were actually pretty good at it. 37 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: They both had their different jobs and they worked together 38 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:58,800 Speaker 1: like a great team and were very productive in finding fossils. 39 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,239 Speaker 1: All right, guys, let's put on our shoes. It's time 40 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: to go, said their parents. It was time to go 41 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,440 Speaker 1: on a real fossil hunting adventure. They lived in Norfolk, UK, 42 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: which had so many cool fossils, and they were gonna 43 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 1: go to a river nearby and look in the river bed. 44 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: Do you know what a river bed is? Oh? Is 45 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: it where we go to sleep at night? No? No, no, no, 46 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,119 Speaker 1: that would just be a normal bed. Well, a river 47 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: bed that's the bottom of the river. Usually it's like 48 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: a pretty clear water and there's lots of rocks and 49 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: sand at the river bed. And do you know who 50 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: goes to sleep in the river bed? Usually fossils. Yeah, riverbeds, 51 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: the bottom of rivers or the shoreline where the sand 52 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: and the rocks are, that's usually a great place to 53 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: find fossils. And that's where Lilah and Casper were going 54 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: today with their parents. They loaded up in the car 55 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 1: and off they drove. They could not wait for this adventure. 56 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: What do you think we're gonna find? Lila? Oh, I 57 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: hope we find like shark teeth or a dinosaur, maybe 58 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: even a wooly mammoth. Wow, any one of those things 59 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 1: would be awesome to find, said Lila. I hope we 60 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: you know, at least find something cool. They had just 61 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: arrived and they raced out of the car and quickly 62 00:04:32,279 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 1: splashed in the river. You do have to get a 63 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,560 Speaker 1: little wet sometimes when you're looking for fossils, but it 64 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 1: helps when it's a nice hot day. Lila and Casper 65 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: started to wade through the river on the shore. It 66 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: was nice and shallow, but they were looking looking for 67 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:56,359 Speaker 1: something amazing. Casper, come over here, hurry, I think I 68 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: found something. Lila was pointing at something that was sticking 69 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: out from the sand in the rocks, something that did 70 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 1: not look normal. Holy smokes, look at that thing. It's huge. 71 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: As Lilah carefully moved the sand away, Casper could not wait. 72 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,520 Speaker 1: Hurry pull it out. Hurry, hurry, wait, wait, wait, we 73 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: gotta be careful with it so it doesn't break, said Lilah. 74 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:26,919 Speaker 1: They had carefully moved all the sand in the rocks 75 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: around it and gently pulled it out. It was a 76 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 1: real megalodon tooth. This is amazing. Lilah held it in 77 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,279 Speaker 1: both hands. A megalodon. Do you know what a meglodon is. 78 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:47,239 Speaker 1: It's a very very big shark that lived a very 79 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: long time ago, and I don't think they live here anymore. 80 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: I think they're extinct. But their teeth are very big. 81 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 1: They're bigger than your hand, like if you were to 82 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: lay your hand out like a pancake. It's bigger than that. Whoa, 83 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:05,599 Speaker 1: I would not want to meet one of those sharks 84 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 1: in the wild in real life. Well, Lilah put their 85 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: fine in a bag. This was a very good fossil 86 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: bag to have. It was nice and soft, so they 87 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: could put things inside of it and it wouldn't get damaged. 88 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 1: As they continued searching, Casper was the next one to 89 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 1: find something amazing. Uh wait, what is this over here? 90 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: He found a rock that looked like there was a 91 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: little marking on it, and he started to move all 92 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: the dirt and mud and sand off of it. He 93 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 1: swished it in the water to make it nice and clean. 94 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:46,120 Speaker 1: It was a pretty big one though. This rock was 95 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: hard to lift because it was so big and heavy 96 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: that as he lifted it out of the clean water. WHOA, 97 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: Lila look at this, shouted Casper. He had found a 98 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: giant and fossil of a wooly mammoth tusk. Oly smokes, 99 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: those are so cool. Do you guys know what wooly 100 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: mammoths are Yeah, they are giant creatures from a long 101 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: time ago that look like elephants. Like picture a normal 102 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: gray elephant with their tusks and their long trunk, just 103 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: like that. But wooly mammoths are wooly. Do you know 104 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 1: what wooly means? Furree? They had hair all over their bodies, 105 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: not like elephants today. They look pretty silly and it 106 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: looks like they needed a haircut or something. But wooly 107 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: mammoths are really cool. They don't live anymore, unfortunately, But 108 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: to find a fossil them is a big deal. Casper 109 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. His eyes were ginormous as he held 110 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:55,960 Speaker 1: up this giant fossil of the wooly mammoth tusk. Oh, 111 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: this might be the greatest find I've ever done, shouted Casper. 112 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: Lilah was really proud of her brother. They added this 113 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: new fossil to their fossil bag. They couldn't wait to 114 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: show their parents. Off to the distance. Next to the 115 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: river was a strange pool of water. It was very sparkly. 116 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: It had a glitter glow to it. As they went 117 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 1: over towards this special pond, they thought it was gonna 118 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: be a great place to wash off their fossils and 119 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: show their parents. Casper was first and grabbed his fossil 120 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: of the wooly mammoth tusk and was rinsing it off 121 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: in this very sparkly clean water. This is gonna be 122 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:47,080 Speaker 1: so cool. Oh oh, no. He dropped it into the 123 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: water and it was very deep. But where'd it go? 124 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: They couldn't see it anymore, and then all of a sudden, 125 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:03,319 Speaker 1: a wooly mammoth walked out of this pond. What on 126 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: earth has just happened? He dropped that fossil into that water, 127 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 1: and a real wooly mammoth walked out. What have they 128 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: just discovered? Did this magical pond turn all fossils into 129 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:25,800 Speaker 1: living creatures? Should Lilah drop her meglodon shark tooth into 130 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: it and see what happens? Oh dear, this is a 131 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 1: crazy adventure and only the beginning. Wow, they have found 132 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: an amazing place that turns fossils into real creatures. If 133 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 1: you found a fossil and could put it in this 134 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: magical pond, what kind of animal would you want it 135 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 1: to be? Would you like to find a dinosaur fossil 136 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: and turn it into a real creature or like a 137 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: or like Lilah found the meglodon shark tooth. Would you 138 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: like to turn a shark tooth into a real megalodon shark? 139 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that would be so cool. Well, I 140 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,840 Speaker 1: think this is just the beginning of Lila and Casper's 141 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: amazing fossil adventure, but it's the end of our story. 142 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: We'll see you next time on Kids Short Stories. Bye. 143 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: Great job, you listened all the way to the end, 144 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 1: and you know what time it is. It's time for 145 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: good shout out. 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