Scientists looked inside the heads of crocodiles – and made an astounding discovery
ed note–as always, an entire mountain range of important info that every war-weary Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to understand about all of this.
Firsto, ladies and Gentile-men, doubtless that some reading the title of the piece are scratching their heads and wondering how all of this (i.e. recent research indicating that the brains of crocodiles have not evolved as much as a micro-millimeter for 100 MILLION years) is even tangentially related to the usual fare that appears here on this humble little informational endeavor dealing with events in the Middle East, Armageddon, WWIII, etc.
And the simple answer to that very fair question is as follows, fellow Gentiles–
IT IS AS MUCH ‘RELATED’ TO THE HEADY EVENTS TAKING PLACE TODAY AS WATER IS WET AND FIRE IS HOT…
It will be remembered that it has been a common theme here on this website that after carefully considering the behavior and thought patterns of those who feature so prominently in the news these days, i.e. the ‘Children of Israel’ as they love to refer to themselves, that they have not changed as much as a single micro-millimeter since the day that Cain lured Abel out into some far-away field and bashed his brains in with a rock.
Following that, with every single character, caricature, and testimony as recounted in the Torah, from Abraham and Sarah conning Egypt’s pharaoh into taking Sarah into his palace as a concubine, to Lott peddling the virginity of his two young daughters away to a group of rapists from the nearby city of Sodom, to Moses commanding the mass extermination of the indigenous peoples of the ‘promised land’ by the Israelites, it has been a constant, unchanging continuim in terms of the behavior and thought processes of this sub-stratum of inhumanity that renders deeper meaning to that old scriptural saying viz ‘there is nothing new under the sun.’
Indeed, as we say often here on this humble little informational endeavor, the only ‘difference’ between the Hebrews/Israelites/Judah-ites of yesteryear and their great-great grandchildren today, is that the ‘yesteryear’ models, described by the one Man who knew them better than anyone else as–
‘CHILDREN OF THEIR FATHER, THE DEVIL…’
–did not possess Weapons of Mass Destruction that could wipe out all life here on God’s green earth.
And here, everyone thought that when we used pics such as this in describing the nature of our situation today–
–that it was all rooted in mere theatrics and ‘Jrama’…
For the past 100 million years, crocodiles and their close relatives – including alligators, caimans and gharials – have survived dramatic changes in climate and habitat. They’ve even endured mass extinctions, including the event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
And yet, despite all of this, their brains have changed very little, according to new research.
Published in the Journal of Anatomy, the study shows that these predatory reptiles developed an extremely effective brain design tens of millions of years ago when they first started to evolve. The design was so successful, in fact, that there was no real need for it to change.
Using advanced CT scanning technology, researchers from the Swedish Museum of Natural History were able to look inside the skulls of both modern crocodilians and their extinct relatives.
They examined 43 species, including living species – such as the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), the Yacare caiman (Caiman yacare) and the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) – and extinct species.
In the past, scientists have found this hard to do because the fossil skulls of these long-lost reptiles look so similar.
But by using CT scans to study the hidden structures inside the skulls, the researchers found key differences in the braincase and sensory organs that helped them differentiate between species that looked almost indistinguishable on the outside.
Understanding the inner structure of the extinct reptile skulls also meant the study authors could work out how much the basic form of their brains and inner ears have changed through time – and how they compare with today’s species.
It turns out the brains of crocodiles and their close relatives have remained mostly unchanged.
Co-author Paul Burke says the discovery helps explain how these reptiles have survived for more than 100 million years, while other vertebrate animals that once existed alongside them succumbed to mass extinctions and other major environmental changes and events.