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A topic that began hundreds of millions of years ago is that some organisms on the earth may have produced civilizations before the emergence of humans.
Of course, recent research is still in its infancy, but what is certain is that the first organisms on Earth will take much longer than humans have lived in.
The age of the Earth is about 4.55 billion years old, and humans with Homo sapiens genes began 300,000 years ago.
Human history, compared to the age of the earth, is actually very small.
So on such a long timeline, are there any creatures whose wisdom has developed to the point where even a certain value cannot be reached?
More importantly, have they left anything behind?
Will future scientists be able to find it as the "origin of civilization"?
1. Wisdom in dinosaurs.
If there were ever extremely advanced species on Earth, they would eventually become extinct.
Perhaps it is the emergence of human beings that makes these species have to leave.
But are all extinct creatures really not worth reaching the point where they can't be reached?
Humans were once a member of the ape family in ancient times, and if there were other creatures on the earth at that time, what would they be?
This kind of conjecture began to emerge as early as the 19th century.
At this time, the British naturalist Charles Darwin began to preach the origin of species, and also wrote the famous "Origin of Species".
At that time, people did not agree with his views, but since 1900, when the concept of evolution was formalized, more and more people have increasingly agreed with Darwin's views.
One of these species is one of the more "advanced" species on Earth, and that is dinosaurs.
One of the most intelligent is the Saurodontosaurus, a lizard-shaped animal with a very powerful body and well-developed limbs.
On land, they can be very powerful and have very good tree-climbing skills.
If they can't be stopped, they can even reach their destination by jumping long distances.
Due to their ability to survive, the ancient creatures on Earth were also very afraid of the Toothless Dragon.
There was a book that claimed that the Toothless Dragon had a "civilization", and this claim was immediately refuted.
In fact, their brains are the size of a pigeon's egg, a size that cannot meet the computing requirements of a human brain.
The human brain, which is definitely not everyone's "computational brain", can calculate how many photons are shining on the earth at this moment.
This is something that most people can't do, and even those who have this ability are those who have been battleground in their respective fields for a long time and have some mathematical talent.
Most people, only with such skills, can calculate how long they can finish reading the entire content of a novel.
But before the appearance of human beings, coincidentally, there was also a "genius" among dinosaurs, which is "brain fossils".
At that time, someone found stone traces of ancient American shrimp in Omera Rock, a monster landmark in the United States, and there was a "stone" among them, which was quite peculiar.
This "stone" is made of a thin layer of yellow limestone, not very large, only the size of a small box, but on the upper left of it, dotted with a small black pebble.
For this peculiar stone, Verne, who is engaged in paleontological research, believes that it is the location of the brain fossil according to a master of "brain fossils" in Heidelberg, Germany.
Therefore, he brought this "brain fossil" back to Germany.
After researching, he also publicly published a conjecture that fossil dinosaurs had a "civilization", what is the situation?
2. The civilization of the Brainy Dragon.
Encephalosaurus was once a large lizard with a long neck, its size, which can be as late as the Cretaceous, has a huge head, which is probably the origin of its name.
Carefully calculated, the time of survival of the Encephalic Dragon is more than 50 million years old.
From this point of view, they have indeed undergone a lot of changes, which makes Verne even more excited, and more convinced of the veracity of this speculation.
However, studies have confirmed that brainized lizards are mainly focused on estimating control consciousness and can be compared to frogs, although they are slower than frogs.
Therefore, the brained lizard mainly looks at the opponent's abilities in the battle in order to make the right tactical decisions.
Brainized lizards have brains that are obviously more developed than wounded lizards, and a recent photograph shows that their brains have completely occupied the cranial cavity.
Therefore, compared to the wounded tooth dragon, the brainy lizard is not unintelligent.
Nature will never create the same kind of life repeatedly, just like human beings on the earth, free and equal, with infinite possibilities.
But the brain of the odontosaurus is only the size of a pigeon's egg, and the brainy dragon occupies the entire cranial cavity, so they have more "brain power".
In the late stage of the resurrection of paleontology, a creature similar to a brained lizard was also discovered, and that was the rat dragon.
Their brains, although not as large as those of the Ichthyosaurus, are very well developed.
In addition, they have almost human limb bones, and at the same time, they are very well adapted and have a short tail with a very well-developed ability to stir muscles.
The rat dragon has the potential for the development of "civilization".
However, whether it is a brainized lizard or a rat dragon, they eventually go extinct.
Their brains and bones can be preserved for a maximum of 200,000 years.
In the past 200,000 years, perhaps, human beings have prospered, and there have been countless extinctions, and the possibility of real survival is even worse than a meteor falling to the earth.
The cornerstone of the meteor continues to undergo hundreds of billions of years of geological activity and becomes a stone, and this process has just begun.
The surface of the earth seems to be only a transit station for digital resources in space, and under the activities of nature, its originally prosperous strata will soon disappear.
3. Conservation of space resources.
However, the earth's resources have created living beings and given birth to human civilization, which the earth has experienced for a long time is definitely deeply aware of.
There is no doubt that the resources on Earth are much more precious than those in space.
However, this does not mean that space resources are less important.
In space, there are many spaces, which are not limited by time and have not experienced the grinding of the earth, therefore, are conducive to the preservation of space devices.
Therefore, in the years to come, if scientists can gradually transmit this information to space, it is more likely to become the key to discovering ancient civilizations than traces on Earth.
Traces on Earth can only be preserved for 200,000 years, but devices in space can exist even longer.
The oldest and earliest traces of the earth are ancient bones excavated in Africa, and after continuous development, they have finally gone out of Africa and gone to the world with developed maritime technology.
Nowadays, there are many traces of human beings on the earth, and this is perhaps the biggest asset left by human beings on the earth.
The ancient civilizations have long fallen into silence, the pyramids of Egypt, the world's penders, and even the Bible, which can be seen everywhere, are all marks of the development of human civilization, and of course, their age is also quite old.
And ancient civilization also has its values, some ancient manuscripts can even be sold for tens of millions of dollars, because they no longer have new processing capabilities, but a kind of culture, a kind of inheritance.
Then, on the earth, there must be many values of ancient species.
Of course, human beings are only one of them, and perhaps there have been more advanced creatures on the earth, but those ancient footprints have long since disappeared.
From what sources will future scientists find evidence of new ancient civilizations?
epilogue
On the earth, there must be more than one type of ancient civilization in human beings, and there may be countless other intelligent lifeforms, and transmitting information to space is also an insurance measure for the development of human civilization.
Compared with the earth, there may still be countless unknown secrets in space, and human civilization may be just one of them.
But the sun, after all, is the sun of the earth, and space is a destination after all, but what kind of opera will be staged by the new life derived from it, and can we witness it?
The earth has a history of 4.55 billion years, human beings are only a few million years old, and the surprises it can bring are far from the end.