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19 Feb

Pyramids Found Underwater Off Cuban Coast; May Be Atlantis

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A team of Canadian and Cuban researchers found the remnants of what could be a 6000-year-old metropolis submerged in deep waters off the west coast of Cuba. In an interview, offshore engineer Paulina Zelitsky, her husband Paul Weinzweig, and their son Ernesto Tapanes described finding "some kind of megaliths you'd find on Stonehenge or Easter Island" with the help of advanced sonar and videography equipment."There are structures within the complex that can measure up to 40 meters in height and 400 meters in width," he stated. A few people are stacked on top of one another. They exhibit highly defined…

14 Feb

Hidden Mysteries of Chichen Itza: Pyramids Inside Pyramids and the Global Grid

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August 2015 saw the stunning discovery of something shocking beneath the fabled El Castillo temple in the heart of Mexico.In the heart of Mexico, a startling discovery was made in August 2015 beneath the legendary El Castillo temple in Chichen Itza. A thorough investigation of the site was started by researchers who were worried about the temple's structural integrity because they had discovered a sinkhole. Their research revealed an enormous architectural mystery: the grand pyramid itself contains nested pyramids. The pyramid at Chichen Itza is not a stand-alone building, according to experts. Instead, it is a sequence of three pyramids…

14 Feb

The secrets of the “Star Gate” and Solar Temple of Abu Gurab are revealed.

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The Abu Gurab sun temples have long been regarded as historic star gates. Various legends and anecdotes claim that they are interdimensional portals via which specific individuals can communicate with various deities and alien beings. Numerous studies conducted in these Sun of Abu Gurab temples and other ancestor stories of the ancient Egyptians have identified a "Stargate" function that is produced by several nearby harmonic resonances in these temples. Contact with extremely old gods or, according to some, ancient aliens, has been made possible by these stargates.What location are these temples? These temples, which are a part of the Abusir…

13 Feb

4,800 years later, the mother was still cradling the baby.As Mother’s Day draws near, this discovery seems appropriate. The 4,800-year-old remains of a young mother and her infant child have been discovered by archaeologists. The astonishing discovery was one of 48 sets of remains—including five children’s fossils—that were uncovered from tombs in Taiwan.

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The maternal moment was a startling discovery for researchers, who claim that these Stone Age artifacts represent the earliest evidence of human activity discovered in central Taiwan.The corpse discovered in the Taichung region depicts a young mother looking down at the child she is holding, preserved for almost 5,000 years.The fossils' ages were ascertained by researchers using carbon dating, which allowed them to place the fossils in the Neolithic Age—a time span that was part of the Stone Age. Archaeologists started excavating in May 2014 and finished the work within a year. However, one pair of remains stood out from…

12 Feb

First-ever Finding in a Classroom: 300,000-year-old, perfectly preserved new dung beetle fossil discovered by a Japanese high school student

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The new species of dung beetle fossil discovered in a geoscience lesson at Keio University's Oho High SchoolIt has been verified that the fossilized bug found in a Japanese high school classroom belongs to a newly discovered species of dung beetle. Kota Yatagai, who was a student at Keio joγ High School in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, found the nearly completely preserved fossil in his rock during a geoscience lesson in September of last year. The way the lesson was taught involved the pupils throwing rocks at each other in an attempt to find objects. The rocks were taken out…

12 Feb

In France, a Massive Twisting Serpent Skeleton Emerges From the Loire River

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Located on the shore of the Loire estuary connecting to the Atlantic Ocean, in the little French town of Saint-Breŋin-les-Pins Éeach, is the remarkable sculpture known as the Serpent d'Océan. With respect to the tides, this permanent installation depicts the skeleton of a massive prehistoric snake. Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping produced this impressionistic ocean serpent specifically for the Voyage à Nantes Festival for the Estuaire 2012 contemporary art exhibition. The dichotomy between destructive impulse and creative talent is frequently conveyed through the art form. Associated with Chinese mythology, this animal conveys a message in favor of environmental preservation.Made entirely…

12 Feb

Evolutionary Giants Reacting to the Growth of Prehistoric Predators in Ancient Ammonites

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The specimen was gathered close to Seppenrade in 1894. Münster's LWL-Museum for Natural History Image: CI. 100 mm is the scale. Credit: Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Ifrim et al., 2021, PLOS ONE A small group of researchers from Germany, Mexico, and the United Kingdom have discovered evidence indicating that the growing size of the mosasaurs that preyed on a patch of ammonite led to their transformation into giants. The group reports their comprehensive research of 154 specimens of two species of ammonite fish and what they learnt about them in a publication published on the open-access journal PLOS ONE. A type…

12 Feb

Uncovering Evolutionary Enigmas: Messel Pit Fossil Resources Reveal the Trajectories of Extinct 48-Million-Year-Old Animals in Germany’s Historic Lake

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A staggering quantity of fish in a vanished German lake suggests the debt humans owe to extinct species from 48 million years ago. A half-mile wide abandoned strip mine located in the middle of a woodland around twenty minutes from the central German city of Darmstadt. Scrubby shrubs now cover the fall, and dirt trails wind by ponds filled with vivid green algae created by rainfall. The Messel Pit is a 200-foot-deep gash in the middle of a forested countryside that doesn't initially appear worth protecting, much less visiting. However, since 1995, it has been recognized as a Unesco World…

08 Feb

Fossils dating back 700,000 years have been found in Indonesia.

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Based on recently discovered hominid fossils, dwarf "hobbits" inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores for hundreds of thousands of years. An international study team has found a fossilized miniature jaw bone and six little teeth from an adult and two children that they believe to be 700,000 years old. This discovery builds on the original hobbit discovery that garnered international attention in 2004.According to the findings published in the journal Nature, the scientists surmise that the newly discovered fossils are the progenitors of the hominid species Homo floresiensis, whose bones were found in 2004 and which are thought to have…

08 Feb

With his boots on, this 500-year-old skeleton passed away.

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A peculiar skeleton that had been hidden for 500 years has now been discovered in the muck of London's Thames River. With one arm raised and his face down, all that remained of his attire were a pair of black leather boots that were thigh high and mostly decayed. Archaeologists are agog over those boots because they are an extraordinarily uncommon discovery. According to Beth Richardson of the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), "it's extremely rare to find any boots from the late 15th century, let alone a skeleton still wearing them," as she told National Geographic. Due to the…