Mystery story of grade 5
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“What is that?”
“It looks like a fossil.”
“It looks part-human.”
“It can’t be…”
The archeologists all started talking at once. I
listened to snippets from each of their
conversations. The words “animal” and
“human” were argued about, with half of us
thinking it looked like one while the other half
was thinking it looked like the other.
As the chatter started to dwindle, I spoke. “What if
it’s neither human nor animal? What if it’s
something we haven’t discovered yet? Maybe
even something from out of our world…”
There was silence as my colleagues digested what I was saying.
Frank said, “I think you might be right. It’s not a dinosaur or any other
animal we’ve encountered. It’s not a human. What else could it be?”
The other scientists started talking with one another again. They were
talking about tests they could run, and about species of animals they could
look up to compare this fossil to. They began to head back to their laptops
to begin researching.
Frank and I stayed behind. We continued to examine the fossil. It was hard
to describe the creature that was fossilized. It was smaller than a human,
but looked like it would have stood on two legs instead of four. Its head was
large and it had 6 fingers on each hand, and 8 toes on each foot.
“Do you think it could have been a human from long ago?” Frank asked.
“Maybe, but I’ve never seen one with that many fingers and toes,” I
answered. “It could be a new animal species. Maybe it just looks like it
would have stood on two legs, but it only looks like that because of the way
it was fossilized. I really don’t know.”
Frank and I headed back to our rooms to think it over and get some sleep.
The next morning, I rushed straight to the fossil. There were already other
archaeologists there, with confused looks on their faces. As I headed
closer, I began to see why. The fossil was different. It had changed
overnight! Now it looked like a small bear.
“What happened?” I asked. No one had an answer. None of us could
understand how a fossil we had dug up yesterday had just changed. We
spent time examining it again. We took pictures and videos of it. We
searched to see if anyone had ever come across a changing fossil. No one
found anything that was helpful in solving our mystery. What kind of fossil
was this?
When night fell, we set up a rotation to make sure two of us were with the
fossil at all times. We wanted to make sure that someone wasn’t playing a
prank on us by switching fossils somehow. All was quiet for my watch,
which was in the middle of the night.
In the morning, I went by the fossil
to again find my colleagues
puzzling over the fossil. It
had changed again! No
one had seen or heard
anything on their watch.
How and why did it keep
changing? To this day, no
one has found the answer
to the mystery, but it is
very interesting to see the
creatures the fossil dreams up!