A recent photo of a polar bear eating a whale on the shore has sparked a stir. The object of the hot discussion is not the polar bear but this pile of bones, careful observation of these bones can find some surprise, netizens have sighed: this is the skeleton of the Chinese dragon! Actually not, the owner of this skeleton is a whale. Then some people felt strange: obviously it is the bone of a whale, how can it look so similar to the keel? Are they related?
Can polar bears eat whales?
Compared to whales and polar bears, which of them do you think is more powerful? Don't look at the polar bear, but it is a fierce enemy of whales. The polar bear is arguably the largest carnivorous animal on Earth today, and as soon as he slaps it, the thick ice will fall apart. Of course, if an adult polar bear is "overwhelmed" by other animals, then the light fracture is broken, and the heavy is damaged.
Polar bears can't help but find fat, white whales when they're hungry. Usually sneaking into the water, swimming near the whales, and taking advantage of the fact that they are not ready to bite the beluga whales. At this time, the sea water will be instantly dyed red. After the whales die, the polar bears will slowly drag their carcasses to the shore, and when everything is ready, they will begin to enjoy their feast.
Polar bears dare to eat whales, which is actually a normal phenomenon. But because of the warming climate, polar bears are becoming more and more difficult to hunt, can not find food to deliver to the door, they even fell to the point where even rotten corpses can be swallowed, most polar bears will choose to eat scraps of cold burning. And when the polar bear finishes eating the whale and there is a pile of bones left, some people say that these bones are like keels?
Are there really dragons in the world? Why do whale bones feel like keels?
China has believed in the dragon since ancient times, and the dragon is in our impression a kind of god that can both fly in the sky and swim in the water. The ancient kings were also known as the "True Dragon Heavenly Sons", believing that they were the embodiment of the dragon and came down to benefit mankind. Today, we all call ourselves "descendants of the dragon."
It is said that art comes from life, if the ancients really never saw a dragon, then where did the paintings come from? Why is it possible to achieve unity? Most scholars today believe that dragons are too far away from us, that they are only a mythical existence, a symbol of the emperor, and a conjecture of the ancients.
There are records of dragons in various dynasties and generations, and until modern times, keels have been discovered? But it turns out that the so-called keel is nothing more than the bones of a whale. In 2004, an octogenarian in Liaoning handed over five keels to the local government, which the old man said was left by a real dragon she had seen as a child and that she had kept.
As soon as this news came out, it attracted many netizens to discuss. But after expert identification, the five bones found that this is not the bones of a rare species, but the bones of whales in the deep sea. Researchers believe this should have been left behind by whales after they ran aground on the shore.
Yingkou dragon fall incident
The dragon fall was even known as the Supernatural Event, and it changed the way many people think about the question of whether a dragon exists or not. In 1934, a skeleton resembling a dragon was found in Yingkou, Liaoning. The white bone is 10 meters long, with horns on both sides of the head, and a total of 29 spines.
The skeleton did not come out of thin air, and local villagers said they had seen the dragon in early July. Some people recall that the dragon's head was square, its eyes were large, flashing, its body was gray, and it was lying on the ground without any strength, and many villagers were watching at that time.
The well-meaning villagers helped the dragon build a simple shed and poured it with water all the time. Maybe it was the favor of heaven, but within a few days it began to rain, and the dragon did not know when it would disappear. The villagers thought the dragon had been saved and flew away, but they did not expect to find the dragon's traces in the reeds a few days later, but the dragon had become a stinking corpse. After the keel was found, it was also transported to the local pier for people to visit, and the number of people who wanted to see what was going on was innumerable.
Even the train tickets to Yingkou that year have increased in price. After the exhibition, the stock price was kept as a specimen in a local school, but the keel disappeared due to the war. Some people speculate that they were transported back to China by the Japanese, while others believe that the Japanese sold the keel at a high price.
Now, based on the photos and shape of the keel, in 2004, the "Approaching Science" column studied this matter, and finally found that the so-called keel is just a whale called "baleen whale". However, the skeleton of the whale is not rigorous when it is pieced together, resulting in its shape looking like a dragon, which is mistaken for a keel.
So why do keels and whale bones look alike?
The first thing to be clear is that there is no research to prove that dragons do exist, in fact, our concept of keels is only extended from some works of art.
Scholars believe that the original prototype of the dragon was a snake, while other scholars also believe that the prototype of the dragon was crocodile, lizard, horse, and so on. On this basis, various parts of other creatures were gradually fused together to form a completely new species, which is what we call dragons. Whales may be one of them, just a reflection of dragons.
Dragons or dragonfish, in the case of dragonfish and whales, have many similarities, both are animals that stay on land and return to the ocean. Both evolved into gigantic bodies, which is necessary to make them the largest creatures of the ocean, knowing that whales lived in the ocean for 45 million years before evolving their bodies. Perhaps it is precisely because of the whale's evolutionary experience that we see the skeleton of the whale and subconsciously think that it is the keel.
Either a fish with a skeleton or a dragon
Last year a mysterious skeleton appeared on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. A diver working on oil discovered a huge skeleton while exploring the ocean floor. This skeleton is about 30 meters above the seabed, mostly in the mud of the ocean. Judging from its skull, it should be the skeleton of an ancient creature, which should have been here for thousands of years. Scientists compared the photographs of the skeleton to a variety of creatures, but none found a matching species.
A lot of people think it should be whales. But the whale's vertebrae have three lobes each showing 120°, while this organism has only two so that this possibility is ruled out by whales. Scientists believe that this may also be an undiscovered new species, and there are too many unsolved mysteries about new species, after all, finfish are likely to be alive.
The fungus only wants to say that the world is so big, the universe is so vast, and there are too many things that have never been seen. Dragons, aliens, or mermaids, after all, have not seen anything, and they can't say whether they exist or not. But isn't it nice to believe in their existence? Some people assert that they absolutely do not exist, and for themselves, have they not lost a lot of fun and fantasy?