Fossilized Clowns and Circus Found! by Erin Sitrin

On July 15, 2017, a team of archaeologists in Australia discovered the remains of a human-like creature that looks suspiciously like clowns found at parties and carnivals. “At first, we thought it was just the skeleton of a human,” says Professor Mary Bakanowsky, one of the archaeologists on the team, “then we noticed that the fossil had abnormally large hands, feet and nose. It didn’t take long for us to figure out that what we had found was the fossil of an ancient clown.” The team dug deeper and found the remains of a small horn, a unicycle, a clown car and, most importantly, a brightly colored cannon with the preserved remains of another clown.

“We think that this great discovery reveals that there was, at one point, an ancient civilization of clowns living in Australia!” says Bakanowsky, “We’re going to do a lot of research on the clown in the cannon.”

This discovery has sparked debate in the archaeological community. “I think that the discovery of these ‘clowns’ is utter nonsense!” archaeologist Paul Mathews states, while scientist Jill Smith has gone on record saying that “...this discovery is groundbreaking and a great step for learning about the history of this planet!” Either way, the archaeologists who discovered the fossils are going to keep them closed from the public until further research is done.