Saturday 3 March 2012

How the crocodile's got their sharp teeth

Long, long time ago, in the dreamtime there was a crocodile who did not have any teeth but gum. He lived in a great billabong.

One hot morning, an aboriginal man was hunting kangaroos with his boomerang. The boomerang was very sharp. When he threw the boomerang to catch a kangaroo near the billabong the crocodile was practising his laps. The boomerang's sharp ends fell into his mouth and got stuck to the crocodile's gum!

Luckily, the flat ends fell into his gum and stayed there for a very long time. Soon they turned into his teeth and more of the teeth grew.

That is why all the crocodiles have the same teeth like long ago. The crocodile learned to watch where he was going. So now the crocodile moved to a big river and not near aboriginals.

The end.

By Anya