Animal Museum

Cory: What are you looking at, James?

James: I’m looking at the pictures I took last weekend.

Cory: Can I see them? . . . Wow! Where did you go?

James: I went to the Museum of Prehistoric Animals in the city centre. I went there with my classmates.

Cory: The animals in these pictures are strange.

James: True, because they lived on earth a long time ago, but they don’t any more.

Cory: What’s this animal? It looks like a lion!

James: It’s a sabre-toothed tiger or smilodon. It lived on earth until 10,000 years ago. Here’s another big animal. It’s called the megatherium. It stood at about 4 metres and lived on earth for millions of years until 11,000 years ago.

Cory: Wow! It was huge! It looks like tree sloths. Oh, look! I know this one! It’s the woolly mammoth. It looked like today’s elephants but was bigger and had more hair.

James: Correct. And its scientific name is mammuthus primigenius. It was 3.5 metres tall and weighed more than 6 tons. It became extinct about 10,000 years ago.

Cory: Wow! You learnt a lot of things at the museum.

James: Yes, I did. I wrote some of the important information on the back of the pictures.