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ποΈ 2 October 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone and welcome back to Short Stories for Kids, |
0:06.2 | the Magical Podcast of Story Adventures. The best thing about living so close to a museum is that you can visit it as often as you like. |
0:27.0 | That's exactly how Abraham and Raphael felt, |
0:31.0 | which was just as well because they loved history, and they really loved the prehistoric, the time |
0:38.8 | when amazing creatures now long gone walk the earth. |
0:43.0 | Check it out, said Abraham, pointing to a new display area. |
0:48.0 | They were in the prehistoric room of the museum, |
0:51.0 | where skeletons of creatures stretching back millions of years were on show to the public. |
0:57.0 | Cool! said Raphael, a new dinosaur! |
1:02.0 | There was a member of the museum staff inspecting the new exhibit as the two boys raced over. |
1:08.5 | Excuse me, said Abraham, but what dinosaur is this? The lady turned to them smiling. She was wearing a lanyard |
1:16.3 | around her neck that said Dr Ellis. It's a spinosaurus, she said. The two boys looked at the skeleton with confusion. |
1:25.6 | But where is its sail? Doesn't spinosaurus have a sail on its back? |
1:30.8 | asked Raphael. |
1:32.0 | Dr Ellis's shoulders sagged. Well it should have, she sighed. |
1:39.3 | Unfortunately when this skeleton was dug up all the the vertebrae, those are the bones that make up the spine, were missing. |
1:47.0 | Spinosaurus's sail was made of long extensions of bone that rose up through those vertebrae so no vertebrae means no sail. |
1:57.6 | Wow a spinosaurus without a spine Abraham said But how did the bones go missing? Dr Ellis sat down on the |
2:06.9 | edge of the exhibit so she was more at the boy's eye level. Bones only get turned into fossils in very special circumstances, she explained. |
2:17.9 | Most creatures that die never become fossils. |
2:20.9 | For those that do, the animals need to be covered quickly, possibly by a landslide or by |
2:26.3 | falling into a river and being covered by mud. |
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