The prehistoric behemoths created by the high fever of the Earth 55 million years ago may now be reviving the unsolved case 100 years later... Prehistoric Truth P-E Extreme Heat Event Giant Snake Worships Ancient Mysterious Creatures The End

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Today's story begins with an unsolved case.

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In 1900, many fossils of giant turtles were unearthed in the Americas.

Some appear in the wilderness of North America, some in the jungles of Central America, and some in the rainforests of South America.

Among them, there is a big guy, weighing 1 ton, 4.1 meters high and 4.9 meters wide.

It's about the size of an SUV.

Non-physical and schematic diagrams

Super armor, huge size, as well as sharp claws and powerful bite force...

Scientists speculate that these giant tortoises may have been the top overlords of the Americas in some prehistoric era.

But when scientists took a closer look at the fossils, they found some weird traces.

These marks are like scars squeezed by some mysterious force.

The scars are not tooth marks and claw marks, but like a large hand after catching a giant turtle,

Pinching hard, it was as if the shell of the giant turtle had been crushed.

Was it really attacked by giants tens or hundreds of meters high?

Only a giant of that size can grow a large hand that can crush a giant turtle of 5 meters...

Or is this mysterious power master some kind of prehistoric monster that humans have never seen before?

Three years later, an explorer named Percy Fawcett said that the prehistoric monster that pinched the giant turtle was still alive.

It is hidden in the jungles of South America, it is not a giant of tens or hundreds of meters high,

It's a creature that each of us knows well—the prehistoric python.

These giant tortoises were crushed by the giant pythons and squeezed.

He also said that an indigenous man from the jungles of South America told him that

These pythons are the guardians of the Lost City of Gold, and finding them will lead to the City of Gold.

Scientists also agree with Percy's statement, calculating that the size of this python is at least more than 20 meters, and the thickest part of the body is more than 1 meter.

Although this body size is outrageous, it is at least more reliable than the giants tens or hundreds of meters tall.

They urged Percy to hurry up and look for the python.

The merchants also urged Percy to hurry up and find the Golden City.

Including journalists and ordinary people, they also urged Percy to go quickly, to bring back the most wonderful adventure stories...

The Percy Expedition set off for the first time in 1906.

For the next 5 years, Percy would periodically mail the journal and stories back to England to his good friend, Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes.

Conan Doyle wrote the classic adventure novel The Lost World based on Percy's letter.

Prehistoric monsters, the lost City of Gold, man-eating natives, piranhas, ape armies, reality mixed with fantasy are all depicted.

At that time, even the Guangxu Emperor may have heard these adventure legends,

Because at that time, the Beijing Zoo was buying rare animals from the world.

The Envoy of the Guangxu Emperor posted a high reward order in Europe, saying that if anyone could safely deliver a 20-meter-long python to Beijing, the Chinese emperor would reward him with 1 million taels of silver.

Empress Dowager Cixi loved snakes and loved to hunt for wonder, and the Beijing Zoo was originally a garden built by Guangxu to please Empress Dowager Lafayette.

Repair the garden, the Great Qing Kingdom never stingy, what is the concept of 1 million taels?

The flagship of the Beiyang Marine Division, the Dingyuan, is only 1.4 million taels.

Soon after, percy's expedition set out again.

Before the departure, Percy declared that they had located the Golden City and had encountered the python that guarded the Golden City, and on this departure, all the answers would be revealed, and the gold and python would be brought back to London.

Half of Europe is boiling.

However, the expedition was all killed in this operation, and no survivor could tell what happened to them.

Are there really pythons?

Is there really a Golden City?

These adventure stories are slowly forgotten, maybe everyone thinks too much, scientists later more and more rationally said,

Giant tortoise scars may be caused by geological activity, there is no such thing as a 20-meter-long, 1-meter-thick python in the world.

The unsolved case has become a pending case again.

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100 years later, in 2011, a paleontologist told reporters,

Except in my most absurd dreams,

I never thought I'd find a 14-meter-long python, and now the largest snake on Earth is almost half the size.

The paleontologist was called Carlos Jaramillo.

As he said this, a 15-meter-long python sculpture was on display at New York's Central Station.

In the sculpture, the python is devouring a crocodile.

This is not imagination, but the restoration of the real scene.

Jala went on to tell reporters that in 2002, some prehistoric fossils were exposed in the large open-pit coal mines (Cerrejon) in northern Colombia.

It is the fossil of some ancient plants, and he was one of the first paleontologists to arrive at the scene.

The team then confirmed that the entire open-pit coal mine was a Paleocene rainforest site, perhaps the last of its kind on Earth, and that it was very precious.

The Paleocene is the name of the 10 million years of geological age after the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, to 55 million years ago.

Such a rare site was discovered, and paleontologists from all over the world have rushed here.

Soon after, Jarrah met another paleontologist named Jonathan Bloch, who knew more about animals and Jalla knew more about plants.

The two teamed up to dig down.

As a result, a world of giant reptiles was dug up, with giant turtles as big as cars,

There is the largest crocodile in the history of the fossil record, and several mysterious vertebrae.

At the time, neither Jara nor Joson were sure what kind of vertebrae this was, there was no vertebrae, scattered alone, and no ribs connected to the vertebrae were found.

Josson suspected it was the tail vertebrae of a giant crocodile.

But one of Jala's students said, Boss, this is obviously the vertebrae of the snake, the snake bone is very fragile, and it is all connected by connective tissue, so it will be separately blocked, and the ribs cannot be found.

Neither Jousson nor Jara dared to say anything, and was punctured by a student who broke the window paper.

They decided to let someone more authoritative identify it.

On this day, Josson used a video call to show the vertebrae to an authoritative reptile expert and ask him to confirm whether it was a snake.

Jonson was very euphemistic, first taking the vertebrae of a python and showing it to the experts.

Experts say that although this vertebrae is large, it is not outrageous, and it is indeed a snake's.

Then, Josson pulled out the big guy they didn't dare to confirm and said, "This is the fossil we found."

The expert immediately said, I will come by the earliest plane tomorrow.

Over the next 10 years, wave after wave of paleontologists rushed to the open-pit coal mine, digging and digging, digging out two prehistoric truths that they dared not think of.

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The first truth is that after the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, the Earth once experienced a "high fever" of about 4 million years, and at its hottest time, both the north and south poles became temperate rainforests.

The second truth, this "high fever" created a terrifying prehistoric monster - the Titan Python.

Jala went on to say that about 55 million years ago, the python glided through the jungles of South America, full of swamps and lakes, and the Titan Python began its reign of terror.

It weighs at least a ton and is 14 meters long, and it can swallow a 2-meter-long crocodile in one bite, without even bulging its belly, it's just its snack.

It is a distant relative of the modern python, without venom, it will use its body to wrap its prey, muscle contraction, directly crushing the prey with a contractile force of at least 28 kg per square centimeter.

This poor crocodile, when it was attacked by a giant python, was under pressure on its entire body, equivalent to the weight of 1.5 Brooklyn Bridges.

In just an instant, the crocodile's bones and internal organs were all crushed.

This is the terrifying Titan Python, and until a few years ago, scientists didn't even know it existed.

Before that, the longest snake recognized by scientists was the African python (Gigantophis), which was extinct.

Lived 40 million years ago in the southern Sahara Desert.

About 10 meters or so.

The surviving snake is almost impossible to exceed 9 meters, and the largest snake is probably one of the unproven green anaconda in South America, which is said to be 8.8 meters.

In 2003, a zoo in Indonesia claimed that they had just been caught a 14.85-meter snake called Osmanthus and tourists pupated on the door.

As a result, after the final field measurements by scientists, it was only 7.5 meters.

Now that the Titan Python has been discovered, also in South America, reporters are suddenly reminded of percy's story 100 years ago, and the scars on the giant tortoises.

It seems that those legends are not empty.

In the jungles of South America, there are really giant pythons, there are Titan pythons that can crush giant turtles...

But did these pythons live until 100 years ago?

Didn't they go extinct?

On another level, why did these prehistoric giant turtles and pythons grow so huge?

Then, scientists tell another prehistoric truth, that is, the "high fever" of the Earth that created the Titan Python, known as the P-E extreme heat event.

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P and E represent two geological ages (P Paleocene - E Eocene).

Simply put, after the extinction of the dinosaurs, before the emergence of megalodons,

At that time, a very large amount of carbon dioxide suddenly appeared in the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, causing global temperatures to rise by about 8 °C in 20,000 years.

At that time, the north and south poles became temperate rainforests,

The rainforest has crossed the Harbin line, with an average temperature of more than 32 °C, and the average temperature is now about 27 °C.

The climate changed suddenly, and organisms that could not adapt to the heat went extinct.

Originally, after the extinction of the dinosaurs, the earth suffered a nuclear winter,

In low temperatures, animals grow themselves very large, which increases the ratio of volume to surface area and controls heat loss.

But the earth suddenly "high fever", those small animals are more likely to dissipate heat, survived.

At that time, animals all over the world began to miniaturize, but there was one exception, and that was cold-blooded reptiles, which did not need to be insulated with larger sizes.

The hotter the weather, the bigger they grew, so the giant crocodile appeared.

The giant turtle appeared,

At the same time, the Titan Python, which hunted these giant crocodiles and giant turtles, also appeared.

As described earlier, these giant crocodiles are more terrifying than giant turtles.

Their ancestors were Deinosuchus , who hunted T. rex in the Cretaceous Period , about 5–10 meters long.

By the P-E era, they had grown stronger, and the largest fossil was found to be 6 meters long and weighed nearly 2 tons.

The bite force may have reached a staggering 4500 kilograms, surpassing that of the T-Rex.

It was the dominant land at the time, but until it met the Titan Python...

Judging from the piled fossils, the Titan Python once particularly liked to hunt this giant crocodile,

Raid from the water, resist the first bite, quickly roll the giant crocodile, shrink its body, crush its bones and internal organs, and turn it into a bag of crocodile-flavored crisp noodles...

Scientists have calculated that the Titan Python is too large to break through the limits of the organism's own weight, and it must rely on buoyancy to survive normally.

Therefore, it must live in an area covered with swamps and lakes, so that giant tortoises and giant crocodiles that also need water have become their main food.

The P-E extreme heat event created these prehistoric behemoths.

It turned out that in the small period after the extinction of the dinosaurs, the earth also experienced such a giant beast era.

But then the question arises, why does Earth suddenly erupt into a P-E extreme heat event?

Scientists estimate that in about 20,000 years, suddenly more than 1 trillion tons of carbon emissions appear in the atmosphere and oceans.

The world's carbon emissions are now no more than 1 billion tons a year.

So where do these 1 trillion tons of carbon emissions come from? Is it all about volcanic eruptions? It doesn't seem to be right.

Another unsolved case, how did the Earth cool down rapidly from the high fever of an extremely hot event?

The scientific unknown leaves us room for imagination.

Could these pythons really be, as explorer Percy said, not extinct but hidden in the hot South American rainforest?

Folklore around the world also has a similar saying, that is, giant snakes will hibernate in pairs, hide in places near geothermal hot springs, quietly dormant, and quietly grow bigger and bigger until they cultivate for thousands of years and become humanoid to the human world.

In addition to folklore, the religions and gods of all mankind also seem to be related to snakes.

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In ancient Egypt, the kingship of the pharaohs was granted and protected by the serpent god;

In China, it is also the dragon who authorizes our Son of Heaven to become the king of the world;

In the Maya, there was a creature that looked very similar to a dragon to control their stars, knowledge, and corn, and was called the feather serpent god;

In the ancient Indian and Buddhist worlds, the snake god Naga was also a dragon congregation,

Together with the Celestial Beings, they are known as the Eight Heavenly Dragons.

Even in ancient Greek and Norse mythology there is a story of the snake woman Medusa, the serpentine scepter.

Including in Norse mythology, there are also stories of the gods at dusk, when Thor and the great serpent Jemongaard died together.

It seems that in ancient legends, and in the collective subconscious of all mankind, the giant serpent is a natural existence.

They are symbols of God.

Legend has it that a snake stole the Tree of Life from Gilgamesh' hands,

It was a snake that tricked Adam and Eve into stealing the forbidden fruit.

Under the bronze tree of Sanxingdui is a snake,

It was a snake that tricked the Hopi into entering the underworld.

It seems that after the snake lost its giant body, it seems that in human legend, it has become a symbol of some kind of evil power.

What exactly does this mean?

On another level, from the perspective of scientists, the origin of snakes is still an unsolved mystery.

Whether it is the terrestrial lizard that lost its four legs in evolution and became a snake,

Or did the seaborn dragon evolve into a snake?

What is the need for this evolution of losing four legs?

Even with genetic technology, scientists are still unable to answer the question of the origin of snakes, but are becoming more and more complex.

Because, genetic evidence shows that snakes have nothing to do with lizards...

It did not originate from terrestrial lizards, nor did it originate from seaborne lizards like the Dragon...

So what exactly is it?

Snakes are also the only species that have conquered land, sea and sky.

In 2013, scientists took a closer look at the flying "paradise tree snake" in Southeast Asian legends.

It was found that this snake can really fly, not simply gliding, but using aerodynamic power to let itself fly in the air...

Its flying equipment is not wings, but its constantly twisting body, which is divided into two fluctuating states, one is a vertical fluctuation with a smaller amplitude, and the other is a horizontal fluctuation with a larger amplitude.

Fluctuations in the vertical direction are about 2 times faster than fluctuations in the horizontal direction.

Entering these wave data into the model, the scientists found that the Heavenly Tree Snake actually used two waves to create a perfect flying power.

This power allows it to fly 100 meters into the sky after it has ejected from the treetops.

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Maybe the snake is an ancient mysterious creature that is far away in the sky and close at hand.

They once transformed into giant pythons after the extinction of the dinosaurs and briefly ruled the earth.

Perhaps after the earth's fever subsided, they did not all go extinct, but became smaller again, hiding themselves in the warm nest of some geocentric world.

They have been waiting, waiting for the outside world to be emitted by humans more and more carbon dioxide, waiting for the global warming again, just like that high fever.

As the summer gets longer and the winter gets hotter, maybe one day they will emerge from the center of the earth and begin their reign of terror.

Well, today's story is shared here, thank you.

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Finally, Madame said that it turned out that you were using horror stories to share environmental protection themes.

But rest assured, after the millennium pythons burrow out of the ground, you will find that their genes are also the same as the Pippi shrimp, with the self-destruct code of delicious writing.