The earth has existed for 4.6 billion years, and there are countless explosions of life, such as grasshoppers, dinosaurs, great white sharks, saber-toothed tigers, etc., whether it is single-celled organisms or large reptiles, which have left a thick mark in the years of the earth. But there are many more creatures that have not left their mark on existence, so so to this day we do not know how much life has appeared on Earth, and whether they have left their own civilization in history.
However, in the thawed permafrost, we find the remains of prehistoric creatures that appear in front of the world with something frightening! It is tantamount to opening the "Pandora's Box" of the earth.
Permafrost layer
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="4" >What is a permafrost layer? </h1>
Although the north and south poles give the impression of "land" composed of ice, in fact, there is not only ice underground at the core of the polar region. The ground of the core is composed of two parts, the first layer of surface is the ice layer that can be melted and converged at any time, and the second half is the land rock that has maintained the freezing effect for a long time.
The thickness of the permafrost is generally increasing slowly, the closest to us should be the Flood Period thousands of years ago, the others were formed in ancient times, and there was an ice age on the earth millions of years ago, that is, most of the land in the Arctic Circle area was frozen during this period, which is near Greenland, but with the movement of the plate, greenland today is only a small part of it.
The Ice Age that Earth has gone through
Over time, the closer the land in the direction of the North Pole, the lower the temperature, and the faster the convergence of snowflakes and ice, gradually freezing the land under the ice, and by far the deepest area of permafrost has exceeded a kilometer, and the permafrost in the rest of the area ranges from hundreds to a thousand.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="9" Why did the prehistoric creatures unearthed > scare humans? </h1>
Before the frozen layer lived a large number of ancient biological species, and these creatures did not find a place to hide when the ice age came, and eventually all died in the cold, and then buried in the permafrost layer, until now the permafrost layer thawed, it can be dug up and seen again.
The remains of prehistoric creatures reappear on earth
What prehistoric creatures are revealed in the ice?
The most famous is the woolly rhinoceros active in the late Ice Age, and the earliest fossils of the woolly rhinoceros show that they appeared 2.58 million years ago in the "Pleistocene" (also called the Hongji, Quaternary of the Geological Age), which is close to the mammoth, but its extinction was 10,000 years ago.
Fossilized rhinoceros skeleton
In addition to its attacking horn, it has a particularly large hump on its back, the hump can refer to the back of the desert camel, the hump of the woolly rhinoceros is mainly for it to store fat and nutrients, eat a meal can not eat for three days, its main food source is herbs and sedges, but with the increasing cold of the ice age and the decline of grassy plants, the number of these cellulose-containing grasses and sedges with proteins has declined sharply.
The woolly rhinoceros, which hid in the cave, survived until the time of the human tribe ten thousand years ago, while the woolly rhinoceros, which had no food source, fell on the ice sheet and was covered with snowflakes until it was excavated in recent years.
Reduction of the woolly rhinoceros
According to the genetic comparison and geological exploration of bone extraction, this woolly rhinoceros should have lived 20,000-50,000 years ago, perhaps because of the short time of death, so it is the first one found in the buried woolly rhinoceros.
Unearthed remains of a woolly rhinoceros
In 2016, a gray wolf cub was also found in the permafrost of Canada, and this gray wolf died about 57,000 years ago.
This cub should not have been tortured too long before death, most likely to be starved to death, because there was no digestive matter found in its stomach, etc., but also shows that the ice and snow in this period are extremely rampant, food is scarce, this young wolf should be eaten by other carnivores or decomposed and decayed by bacteria after death, but it is completely preserved, indicating that the ice and snow at that time were very large, and it was buried under the snow in less than an hour after the death of the young wolf, and it was preserved to this day.
Unearthed gray wolf cubs
And why do humans fear?
After these prehistoric creatures were exposed, some zoologists and scientists were so excited that they had enough material and objects to study that they might be able to observe what life was like tens of thousands of years ago.
But many biologists are worried that prehistoric organisms not only represent the life of that era, but also represent the threat of that era, and many organisms contain archaea and ancient viruses on their bodies, which, if not dealt with well, will directly cause devastating disasters to human beings once they are passed out.
Invisible viruses and bacteria are overwhelming
The most notable example is a reindeer infected with exposed Bacillus anthracis more than 30 years ago, buried by a snowstorm after death, and the ice sheet melted in 2015, and the bacillus anthracis also spread from the reindeer, while all the surrounding animals were infected, and some of the people living around did not escape the disaster.
This is only a virus with a simple structure in the ancient virus, and what is more frightening is that there are more than 20 kinds of giant virus flaring tanks, soft viruses, etc. that have been discovered, each of which contains the characteristics of infection, and once it is brought into human society, the impact is no less than a war!
Virus model
At present, no one knows what kind of virus has not been discovered, but with the gradual appearance of these prehistoric creatures, these viruses will definitely be discovered, but there is no vaccine for all viruses, and all those who know will be afraid of the appearance of these prehistoric creatures.
At the same time, methane and other toxic gases in the permafrost layer with the disappearance of the permafrost layer, and rapidly spread into the atmosphere, the original global temperature is high, methane, which is difficult to decompose and easy to release high temperature gases will exacerbate the rise of global temperature, forming a vicious circle.
The average temperature of the Earth has repeatedly reached new highs
This is also the thing that worries mankind the most when these prehistoric creatures are exposed!
In Greek mythology, because of human greed and hostility, the gods decided to punish human beings, so they gave a woman a box and told her not to open the box, and for a long time of curiosity, the woman opened the box, the moment the box was opened, the disaster of the world began to fall, and countless people were killed.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" what is Earth's Pandora's Box >? </h1>
A tale of darkness
The meaning of the Earth Pandora's Box is that because of the opening of something, there will be a disaster on the earth, a disaster that can threaten the survival of mankind, according to the appearance of prehistoric creatures, it is very likely that the event that the Earth Pandora's Box opened is.
The source of prehistoric organisms was the land buried by the ice sheet under the permafrost layer, and the permafrost layer has not thawed for millions of years, so why has a large area of the permafrost layer begun to thaw in recent years?
Siberian permafrost
global warming
According to data reports from all over the world, the average temperature has been rising year by year for many years, especially in 2020, breaking the record highest everywhere, and the rise in temperature has led to the melting of the permafrost, which has led to the exposure of the corpses of those prehistoric organisms.
The reason for the temperature change is that the gas released by people when they live is difficult to decompose, and when the air conditioner is turned on in summer, the hot gas emitted will not be vaporized into the clouds for the first time, because the molecules composed of these gases are very stable and will not be easily scattered, resulting in a stream of emission gases that will take a little time to dissipate naturally.
But the world's multiple air conditioners in use, the combination of emissions together is not completely by natural decomposition can be done, after gathering, the temperature emitted will make the surrounding air temperature also rise, so there will be a rise in temperature.
The more the Earth's temperature "burns", the higher
There is another reason, the composition of the air structure balance is broken, normally, oxygen is only 21%, carbon dioxide is only 0.03%, more is nitrogen, accounting for 78%, with the development of the industrial revolution, the establishment of various factories, exhaust pipes, coal thermal power stations, production of various gases emitted into the atmosphere, increasing the proportion of carbon dioxide in the air.
Large amounts of exhaust gas emissions
The role of the ozone layer is to greatly weaken the pollution and radiation of light, so that the temperature falling on the ground is just suitable for biological growth, but the increase in emission gases will slowly replace the ozone layer, but its ability is the opposite of the ozone layer, and the light and radiation from the sun after these gases are dense will fall directly on the ground through these gases.
Holes appear in the ozone layer
The earth will form a reflection effect on the sunlight, but these emissions can absorb the radiation of the reflected wave, that is to say, it is difficult to send out a part of the heat of the light, and the result is stopped halfway, which will lead to the heat and temperature of the sunlight being eaten clean by the earth, which will lead to the rise of the earth's surface temperature.
Secondary disasters caused by high temperatures
The thermal energy brought by the rise in global temperature will bring great power to the air and moisture, and this produces a tsunami that has a greater force than the tidal pull, the seawater is not only the surface of the waves have lethality, the distant seawater with a strong impact crashed into the frozen soil layer in the seawater, the huge impact will make the ice above the frozen soil layer fracture and damage, forming the same fault as the geology, and then under the action of sunlight and high temperature, rapid melting, crushed ice and a whole piece of ice, who scattered fast should not be said?
Glaciers melt and bipolar animals lose their homes
And the final result of the series of situations mentioned is only one, global warming, which is the reason for opening the Pandora's Box of The Earth.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="56" > the danger of Earth's Pandora's Box being opened </h1>
The danger of opening the magic box is the danger of global warming, the ablation of the permafrost layer will allow prehistoric organisms to carry viruses in human society, and the dissipation of the ice sheet will form a water flow to the ocean, directly increasing the height of the sea level.
The sea waters of the world are connected, and the relative altitude of the large number of islands and island states is not much higher, and the altitude of coastal areas is not much higher, which leads to the rise of sea levels, and these areas will become shallow continental shelves.
Rising sea levels inundate cities
Human activity areas will disappear 40% after the polar permafrost is completely seawater, because the ice body does not dissipate in an instant, so humans have time to arrange for people in these areas to leave, but when these areas are really covered by seawater, human competition for activity areas may cause some other problems.
At the same time, after the temperature rises, the global rainfall will be redistributed, and the higher the temperature, the annual rainfall will be pitifully small, and where the temperature is moderate, it will rain every day, because the gas will converge in places where there is a temperature difference. Plant cultivation will be hit as never before, there is no comparison of 24 solar terms, the high temperature throughout the year, so that human beings have no corresponding experience in plant cultivation and fertilization, and can only rely on storing grain to survive the difficulties.
Humanity will fall into a prolonged famine
Living space is compressed, food sources are cut off, if it were not for the sunshine and down-to-earth security, it would be like the earth entered the ice age millions of years ago, if this is the price of opening the magic box, then I think many people should regret it, right?