Read the short story. Then answer each question.
Fossil Mystery
"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.
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