Then, in the wreckage, everyone found that there were sedges, mosses, willow branches, etc. in the intestines of mammoth elephants, as well as... a pile of feces!
Li Bingqing was fascinated by this, and he squeezed Xu Qiu's shoulders much more gently, and asked, "Isn't it normal to have feces in the intestines?"
"Indeed..…"
Xu Qiu laughed and said, "However, there are still fruiting bodies of the fungus Sporormiella in this lump of feces!"
Xu Qiu explained: "The fungus Sporormiella is extremely fond of feces, and it generally grows on the feces of domestic animals and wild herbivores, is responsible for recycling residual nutrients, and needs to be exposed to the air for at least a week before it matures.
"This means that the mammoth died after eating a stale lump of feces - fungus-covered feces that had been lying on the ground for at least a week...
"Do you understand? It's not produced in the intestines, but moldy and overgrown with fungus before being eaten by mammoth elephants..." The expression on Li Bingqing's face suddenly became very Wonderful.
He wanted to laugh, but because Xu Qiu's explanation was very serious, he didn't dare to laugh.
She asked: "Just one mammoth elephant doesn't represent the whole group, maybe, this mammoth elephant has pica?"
Xu Qiu nodded and said, "Indeed, an elephant is not convincing.
"So, in follow-up research, archaeologists and paleontologists also found feces in the body of another subspecies of Mammoth elephant in the country of Berry.
"The feces contained, in addition to plant residues, numerous fruiting bodies of the fungus Sporor3.5miella, and lacked bile acids.
"You have to know that there are very few fossils and remains of mammoth elephants. Being found once is enough to attract the attention of the biological community. And there are feces in the remains several times in a row, which is very illustrative of the problem7o "
Li Bingqing curled her red lips, very puzzled, "Because food was too scarce at that time?
"Director Xu, in the two examples you gave just now, there is no food in these two mammoth elephants, only feces and a small amount of plants that are not rich in nutrients. Is it because the pressure of foraging is too high, so they have to eat feces?" Xu Qiu glanced at Li Bingqing.
Unexpectedly, this female officer with short hair over the ear has such a rigorous thinking.
Indeed, paleontologists who studied at that time also had such doubts.
The two mammoth elephants have one thing in common, they are both dying adults, and the autopsy results show that their physical condition is very poor, and they died in winter or early spring.
At this time, it happened to be the time when food resources were scarcest. The two mammoth elephants could only eat the feces left over from the previous summer because they could not find food.
However.…
Xu Qiu smiled, and continued: "After some research, it was found that not only adult mammoths that were dying, but even juvenile mammoths have this habit..." This mammoth It's called Liuba.
This is a female mammoth cub, 85 centimeters tall and 11 centimeters long.
It was born in late winter or early spring and was about one month old. It died of drowning and suffocation while crossing the river, and was buried under the river bed with its torso and organs almost intact. It is one of the best-preserved mammoths.
As a one-month-old mammoth cub, Liuba is still unable to chew plants, and the small teeth that have just erupted in his mouth are not obviously worn out. The source of nutrition mainly depends on his mother's milk.
But the strange thing is that Liuba's intestines are actually very rich in plant debris,
There are mainly sedge plants, willow leaves, willow branches, moss and seeds,
And with snips and twists - that's chewing!
It is impossible for Liuba, who is only one month old, to chew these foods. Its teeth cannot bite through the hard-skinned foods of the Ice Age.
Therefore, these plant remains can only come from the feces of adult mammoths...
And, even worse,
The time of Liuba's death was winter and the weather was cold.
At this time, the ground is covered with frozen feces...
With Liuba's chewing ability and the development of his teeth, it is impossible to eat this kind of thing.
Therefore, it is very likely that Liuba's mother swallowed a pile of old feces that were already overgrown with fungus, and then excreted it out of the body, and Liuba had another meal while it was hot...
The most convincing thing is that in some later excavations of the remains, paleontologists did find some juvenile mammoths that also had feces in their bodies.
Moreover, those mammoth elephants store a lot of fat under their skin, which directly reflects their good nutritional status and are not affected by hunger and cold, so they are alive and well.
They have no shortage of food, but they still eat feces...
"It's heavy enough." Li Bingqing made a comment and increased the pressure in his hand.
Xu Qiu lay on the chair and closed his eyes comfortably.
"However, why do you need to eat stool?" Li Bingqing asked again.
Without opening his eyes, Xu Qiu replied, "At present, there is no authoritative research in the academic world.
"However, according to my speculation, it may be because young mammoths need to ingest intestinal bacteria from feces to improve their own digestive system and immune system, which is conducive to digesting various plants in the future .
"Juvenile mammoths rely on the feces of adults to build up their intestinal flora, absorb additional nutrients, and fill their stomachs.
"After getting used to it, the grown-ups also started to eat it."
In the Ice Age when food was scarce,
The feces all over the ground are indeed rich and precious nutrients...
Just when Li Bingqing was feeling emotional about Meng Fengxiang, there was a sudden knock on the heavy wooden door.
A moment later, Zou Botao stood in front of Xu Qiu with a gloomy face.
"Director Xu, I have a question, I beg for your answer
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"Um? "
Xu Qiu looked at Zou Botao.
The No. [-] person in the crisis bureau now has a haggard face and bloodshot eyes. He is a completely different person from the radiant appearance two days ago!
"Old Zou, this is..."
Xu Qiu quickly stood up.
Didn't Zou Botao rest these two days?
When the calculation speed of the nuclear difference machine was announced yesterday, Zou Botao seemed to be in a bad state of mind, with sunken eyes.
The current situation is even worse than then.
Zou Botao's complexion was extremely pale, and he hadn't shaved his beard for a few days. At this moment, he looked like a mad scientist.
His eyes were full of red threads, his tone was low, and he said: "Director Xu, you appointed me, Professor Yang Shaowei and others to find out the truth about the Little Ice Age and...the truth about the extinction of the sun, and we, too, I did discover something new..."
Xu Qiu immediately became serious.
If Zou Botao and others really find a reasonable explanation,
Then, my doomsday lie will be more credible.
Although, most of the countries in the world have already begun to build doomsday,
However, it is always safer to make this lie form a perfect logical closed loop.
"Old Zou, tell me!" Xu Qiu said seriously.
Zou Botao looked excited and said: "In addition to the iron 60 you mentioned before, we also found a rare metal, Hyun!
This metal, which rarely occurs on the surface of the earth, is very common in meteorites!
And this needs to be traced back to the extinction of the dinosaurs..."
Xu Qiu looked sideways, is it related to the extinction of species?
The explanation he gave for the previous Little Ice Age was the explosion of supernovae, which even involved the Ordovician mass extinction more than 4 million years ago.
Can the extinction of the sun be explained by the extinction of species?
Zou Botao went on to say: "We found that the environment of the blue star at the end of the Cretaceous period is exactly the same as that of the blue star after the sun went out...
It was the eve of the meteorite impact, the world continued to cool, and sea levels dropped.At that time, the peak altitude in the Late Cretaceous was 70 to [-] meters, followed by the long-term decline of the Kampa-Maastrichtian stage!In the Early Cretaceous - Middle Cretaceous, it was a shallow sea.
The famous 'Western Interior Seaway' covers the midwestern region of North America, but due to continuous plate movement to form the Rocky Mountains, the continent stretches and breaks, and the covering seawater retreats.
By the eve of extinction, only a narrow stretch of the Inland Seaway remained.In the Paleogene period, only a small remnant known as the Sea of Cannonballs remained.
And after the sun goes out, it is almost completely similar to this, the extremely cold temperature will freeze most of the world, the sea level will drop sharply, and finally there will be only land left..." Xu Qiu rubbed his chin, thinking.
"So, next, a meteorite impact?" he asked.
In Zou Botao's eyes, he was delighted to see the truth, but at the same time he was afraid of the scene, and said, "Yes, Director Xu!
In the late Cretaceous period, the temperature dropped to the extreme, and after that, it was not a more terrifying cold, but... extremely high temperature!
Below the western part of Tianzhu, a large-scale volcanic eruption occurred.
The Degan Volcano erupted and formed the Degan Shield with a volume of up to 80.00%, which led to another drastic change in the global climate.
This big explosion relieved the global extreme cold, dissolved the sea area near the Tianzhu Ocean, and caused the acidification of the surface ocean, especially affecting the remaining organisms with calcareous shells, such as foraminifera, stones, etc..."
Li Bingqing listened intently, and said: "So, after the sun goes out, the temperature doesn't keep dropping, but after reaching a certain point, it triggers a global volcanic eruption?"
Zou Botao nodded, with worry in his eyes, and said, "After that, a meteorite fell..."
"Sixty-five million years ago, the asteroid crashed into the blue star from the northeast at a horizontal inclination of 500 degrees...
And this meteorite, according to our prediction, may be composed of carbonates and evaporites, and its diameter has reached 2000 meters, which is 1 meters...
This is 721 times that of the meteorite in the '24 Meteorite Fall' event!
A meteorite at a height of 500 meters has caused such a serious disaster to the whole world, a large number of coastal areas have rolled up a tsunami of more than ten meters and a height of more than 20 meters, not to mention a meteorite at a height of 1 meters..." Li Bingqing Eyes widened.
If it really develops according to this situation, then the super dungeon may not be able to allow the people of Dragon Kingdom to survive.
No, it should be that the creatures on the blue star will all face a major cleansing, only a very small number of microorganisms can survive, and live to another new era after the extremely cold era... Zou Baitao was silent for a long time, He looked up at Xu Qiu.
In this office, in terms of profound knowledge, even in the field of physics, Zou Botao would not dare to compare with Xu Qiu in 09!
"Director Xu, I really want to know what will happen if a meteorite from 1 meters hits the blue star?"
Xu Qiu's words made people shudder.
"First, there was the shockwave of the explosion that swept across the globe," he said.
In the abdominal muscles hitting the ground, this shock wave will trigger a 56-level gust of more than [-] kilometers per hour! ! "
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