1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Hello friends, It's mister Jim and welcome back to kid 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today's story comes to us from Lila and Casper. 3 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: Hey guys, they sent me an awesome idea for a story, 4 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 1: and you can too. Just head over to kidshort stories 5 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: dot com. Send me your ID and maybe we'll turn 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: it into an awesome adventure. Are you guys ready to 7 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: go on a prehistoric adventure of finding fossils? Me too? 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:43,879 Speaker 1: Let's go one day. Lila and Casper, we're playing in 9 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,160 Speaker 1: their backyard. They were having lots of fun in their sandbox. 10 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 1: Have you ever played in sand before? Oh? I hope so. Well, 11 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:56,960 Speaker 1: digging in sand or building with sand is really fun. 12 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: But Lilah and Casper, they are archaeologists preparing to go 13 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: on a fossil hunt. Wait, what is an archaeologist? Do 14 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: you know what an archaeologist is? Oh? An archaeologists. That's 15 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: the one that's the job that they look for dinosaur 16 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: bones or fossils and where do those live? Like, if 17 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:23,520 Speaker 1: you were to go looking for fossils, would you look 18 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:28,319 Speaker 1: if they're hanging from trees like apples? No? No, no, no, 19 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: they're not hanging from trees. Are they like inside of 20 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:40,960 Speaker 1: swimming pools. No, usually not not there. Yeah that's right. Yeah, 21 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,040 Speaker 1: they're usually like maybe in the ground or in a river, 22 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: or maybe on a lake. Yeah, there's lots of places 23 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 1: that you can find some really cool fossils. Well, Lila 24 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: and Casper, they like to hide things in their sandbox 25 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: and then go dig for them. Whoa, Casper, look at 26 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 1: this as Lila pulled out a giant fossil. This was 27 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,840 Speaker 1: a fossil of a real clamshell from a very long 28 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: time ago. Wow. Good, fine, Lila, said Casper. All right, 29 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: I think there's just two more left. Oh, here's one, 30 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: said Casper. He had dug in the far corner of 31 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,800 Speaker 1: the sandbox and had found another fossil. And here's the 32 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:37,400 Speaker 1: last one, said Lila. Wow, I think that's a world record. 33 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever found all our fossils before 34 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: that fast. We're getting pretty good, said Lila. They were 35 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: a great team, Casper and Lilah. They loved to dig together. 36 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: But not only that, they were actually pretty good at it. 37 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 1: They both had their different jobs and they worked together 38 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,839 Speaker 1: like a great team and were very productive in finding fossils. 39 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: All right, guys, let's put on our shoes. It's time 40 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: to go, said their parents. It was time to go 41 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 1: on a real fossil hunting adventure. They lived in Norfolk, UK, 42 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: which had so many cool fossils, and they were gonna 43 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: go to a river nearby and look in the river bed. 44 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,560 Speaker 1: Do you know what a river bed is? Oh? Is 45 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: it where we go to sleep at night? No? No, no, no, 46 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: that would just be a normal bed. Well, a river 47 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 1: bed that's the bottom of the river. Usually it's like 48 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: a pretty clear water and there's lots of rocks and 49 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: sand at the river bed. And do you know who 50 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: goes to sleep in the river bed? Usually fossils. Yeah, riverbeds, 51 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: the bottom of rivers or the shoreline where the sand 52 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: and the rocks are, that's usually a great place to 53 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: find fossils. And that's where Lilah and Casper were going 54 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: today with their parents. They loaded up in the car 55 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: and off they drove. They could not wait for this adventure. 56 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:09,640 Speaker 1: What do you think we're gonna find? Lila? Oh, I 57 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: hope we find like shark teeth or a dinosaur, maybe 58 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:20,360 Speaker 1: even a wooly mammoth. Wow, any one of those things 59 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: would be awesome to find, said Lila. I hope we 60 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,320 Speaker 1: you know, at least find something cool. They had just 61 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,279 Speaker 1: arrived and they raced out of the car and quickly 62 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: splashed in the river. You do have to get a 63 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: little wet sometimes when you're looking for fossils, but it 64 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,560 Speaker 1: helps when it's a nice hot day. Lila and Casper 65 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 1: started to wade through the river on the shore. It 66 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 1: was nice and shallow, but they were looking looking for 67 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:56,440 Speaker 1: something amazing. Casper, come over here, hurry, I think I 68 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: found something. Lila was pointing at. Something was sticking out 69 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: from the sand in the rocks, something that did not 70 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: look normal. Holy smokes, look at that thing. It's huge. 71 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: As Lilah carefully moved the sand away, Casper could not wait. 72 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: Hurry pull it out. Hurry, hurry, wait, wait, wait, we 73 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: gotta be careful with it so it doesn't break, said Lilah. 74 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: They had carefully moved all the sand in the rocks 75 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: around it and gently pulled it out. It was a 76 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:40,279 Speaker 1: real megalodon tooth. This is amazing. Lilah held it in 77 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,359 Speaker 1: both hands. A megalodon. Do you know what a meglodon is. 78 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 1: It's a very very big shark that lived a very 79 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 1: long time ago. And I don't think they live here anymore. 80 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: I think they're extinct. But their teeth are very big. 81 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: They're bigger than your hand, like if you were to 82 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 1: lay your hand out like a pancake. It's bigger than that. Whoa, 83 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,679 Speaker 1: I would not want to meet one of those sharks 84 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,640 Speaker 1: in the wild in real life. Well, Lilah put their 85 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: fine in a bag. This was a very good fossil 86 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:16,800 Speaker 1: bag to have. It was nice and soft, so they 87 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: could put things inside of it and it wouldn't get damaged. 88 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: As they continued searching, Casper was the next one to 89 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: find something amazing. Uh wait, what is this over here? 90 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: He found a rock that looked like there was a 91 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: little marking on it, and he started to move all 92 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: the dirt and mud and sand off of it. He 93 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 1: swished it in the water to make it nice and clean. 94 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: It was a pretty big one though. This rock was 95 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: hard to lift because it was so big and heavy 96 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: that as he lifted it out of the clean water. WHOA, 97 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: Lila look at this, shouted Casper. He had found a 98 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: job and fossil of a wooly mammoth tusk. Oly smokes, 99 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: those are so cool. Do you guys know what wooly 100 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: mammoths are. Yeah, they are giant creatures from a long 101 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: time ago that look like elephants. Like picture a normal 102 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: gray elephant with their tusks and their long trunk, just 103 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: like that. But wooly mammoths are wooly. Do you know 104 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: what wooly means? Furrey, They had hair all over their bodies, 105 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: not like elephants today. They look pretty silly and it 106 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: looks like they needed a haircut or something. But wooly 107 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 1: mammoths are really cool. They don't live anymore, unfortunately, But 108 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: to find a fossil them is a big deal. Casper 109 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,400 Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. His eyes were ginormous as he held 110 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: up this giant fossil of the wooly mammoth tusk. Oh, 111 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 1: this might be the greatest find I've ever done, shouted Casper. 112 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: Lilah was really proud of her brother. They added this 113 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:10,040 Speaker 1: new fossil to their fossil bag. They couldn't wait to 114 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: show their parents. Off to the distance, next to the 115 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: river was a strange pool of water. It was very sparkly. 116 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: It had a glitter glow to it. As they went 117 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,320 Speaker 1: over towards this special pond, they thought it was gonna 118 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: be a great place to wash off their fossils and 119 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 1: show their parents. Casper was first and grabbed his fossil 120 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: of the wooly mammoth tusk and was rinsing it off 121 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: in this very sparkly clean water. This is gonna be 122 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:47,120 Speaker 1: so cool. Oh oh, no. He dropped it into the 123 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 1: water and it was very deep. But where'd it go? 124 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 1: They couldn't see it anymore, and then all of a sudden, 125 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: a wooly mammoth walked out of this pond. What on 126 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:08,559 Speaker 1: earth has just happened? He dropped that fossil into that water, 127 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: and a real wooly mammoth walked out. What have they 128 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: just discovered? Did this magical pond turn all fossils into 129 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:25,880 Speaker 1: living creatures? Should Lilah drop her meglodon shark tooth into 130 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: it and see what happens? Oh dear, this is a 131 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: crazy adventure and only the beginning. Wow, they have found 132 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 1: an amazing place that turns fossils into real creatures. If 133 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,560 Speaker 1: you found a fossil and could put it in this 134 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: magical pond, what kind of animal would you want it 135 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: to be? Would you like to find a dinosaur fossil 136 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 1: and turn it into a real creature? Or like a 137 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,640 Speaker 1: or like Lilah found the meglodon shark tooth. Would you 138 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 1: like to turn a shark tooth into a real megalodon shark? 139 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that would be so cool. Well, I 140 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 1: think this is just the beginning of Lilah and Casper's 141 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: amazing fossil adventure. But it's the end of our story. 142 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 1: We'll see you next time on Kids Short Stories. Bye, 143 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,839 Speaker 1: great jime, you listened all the way to the end, 144 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: and you know what time it is. It's time for 145 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 1: coude shout out. 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