A recent photo of polar bear eating whale on the shore has caused heated discussion. The object of heated discussion is not the polar bear but this pile of bones. If you look closely at these bones, you will find some surprises. Netizens exclaimed: This is the skeleton of a Chinese dragon! Actually no, the owner of this skeleton is a whale. Then some people feel strange: is obviously the bone of a whale, why does it look so similar to a keel? Are they related in any way?
Can polar bears eat whales?
Compared with whales and polar bears, who do you think is more powerful? Although the polar bear looks silly, it is a powerful enemy of whales. The polar bear can be said to be the largest carnivore on the earth today. As long as he touches down with his palm, the thick ice will fall apart. Of course, if an adult polar bear inflicts an "overwhelming" attack on other animals, it could result in fractures at the least, or damage to all the internal organs at the worst.
If polar bears find a fat, white whale when they are hungry, it will be difficult for them not to take action. usually sneaks into the water secretly, swims close to the whale, and bites beluga when it is not prepared. At this time, the sea water will be dyed red instantly. After a whale dies, polar bears will slowly drag its body to the coast. When everything is ready, they will start enjoying their feast.
It is actually normal for polar bears to dare to eat whales. However, due to climate warming, it is becoming more and more difficult for polar bears to hunt. They cannot find food delivered to their doorsteps. They are even reduced to the point where they can even eat rotten corpses. Most polar bears will choose to eat leftovers. And when the polar bear ate the whale and was left with a pile of bones, some people actually said that these bones looked like keel bones?
Are there really dragons in the world? Why do you think whale bones are keel bones?
China has believed in dragons since ancient times. In our impression, dragons are gods that can fly in the sky and swim in the water. The ancient kings were also called the "True Dragon Emperors", believing that they were the incarnations of dragons and came down to earth to benefit mankind. Today we all call ourselves "descendants of the dragon".
It is said that art comes from life. If the ancients really never saw a dragon, where did the paintings they painted come from? Why can it be unified? Nowadays, most scholars believe that dragons are too far away from us. They are just an existence in mythology, a symbol of the emperor, and a conjecture of the ancients.
There are records about dragons in every dynasty and every generation. Until modern times, has anyone discovered a dragon bone? But it turned out that the so-called keels were nothing more than whale bones. In 2004, an 80-year-old man in Liaoning handed over five dragon bones to the local government. The old man said that they were left behind by a real dragon she saw when she was a child, and she has been keeping them.
As soon as this news came out, it attracted many netizens to discuss it. But after expert appraisal, it was discovered that these five bones were not the bones of any rare species, but the bones of whales in the deep sea. researchers believe this was left behind by a whale that beached itself on the shore.
Yingkou Dragon Falling Incident
This dragon falling incident was even called a supernatural event. This incident changed many people's views on the existence of dragons. In 1934, a dragon-like skeleton was discovered in Yingkou, Liaoning. This white bone is 10 meters long, has horns on both sides of its head, and has a total of 29 vertebrae.
This skeleton did not come out of thin air. Local villagers said they saw this real dragon in early July. Some people recalled that the dragon had a square head, big eyes, flickering, and a gray body. It was lying on the ground without any strength. There were many villagers watching at that time.
The kind-hearted villagers helped the dragon build a simple shed and kept watering it with water. Maybe it was God's favor, but it started raining in the area within a few days, and the dragon disappeared without knowing when. The villagers thought that the dragon had been rescued and flew away, but they did not expect to find traces of the dragon in the reeds a few days later, but the dragon had become a smelly corpse. After the keel was discovered, it was transported to the local dock for viewing. Countless people wanted to take a look.
Even train tickets to Yingkou have increased in price. After the exhibition, the stock was preserved as a specimen in a local school, but the keel disappeared due to the war. Some people speculate that the keel was transported back to China by the Japanese, while others believe that the Japanese sold the keel at a high price.
Now based on the photos and shape of the keel, the 2004 " approaches science " column conducted research on this matter. finally found that the so-called keel is just a kind of whale, called " baleen whale ". is just not rigorous when piecing together the whale skeleton, causing its shape to look like a dragon, mistakenly thinking it is a keel.
So why do keel bones and whale bones look similar?
The first thing to make clear is that there is currently no research to prove that dragons actually exist. In fact, our concept of dragon bones is only extended from some works of art.
Scholar Wen Yiduo believes that the original prototype of the dragon is a snake, while other scholars also believe that the prototype of the dragon is a crocodile, lizard, horse, etc. On this basis, various parts of other creatures were gradually integrated to form a completely new species, which is what we call a dragon. The whale may also be one of them, just a reflection of the dragon.
Dragons or dragon fish, take dragon fish and whales as examples, there are many similarities between the two. Both are animals that stay on land and return to the ocean. Both have evolved into huge bodies, which is also a necessary condition for them to become the largest creatures in the ocean. You must know that whales have lived in the ocean for 45 million years before evolving their bodies. Perhaps it is precisely because of the evolutionary experience of whales that when we see the skeleton of a whale, we subconsciously think it is a keel.
Either a fish with a long skeleton or a dragon
A mysterious skeleton appeared on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea last year. A diver working in the oil industry discovered a huge skeleton while exploring the seabed. The skeleton is about 30 meters above the seabed , mostly in ocean mud. Judging from its skull, should be the skeleton of an ancient creature, which should have been here for thousands of years. Scientists compared photos of the skeleton to a variety of organisms, but found no matching species.
Many people think this should be a whale. But the whale's vertebra has three blades, each blade showing 120°, and this creature only has two, so this possibility of the whale is ruled out. Scientists believe that this may also be an undiscovered new species. There are currently too many unsolved mysteries about new species. After all, it is possible for fin-coated coelfish to be alive.
I just want to say that the world is so big, the universe is so vast, and there are so many things that I have never seen. Whether it’s a dragon, an alien, or a mermaid, after all, I haven’t seen anything, so I can’t say directly whether they exist or not. But, isn’t it a wonderful thing to believe in their existence? Some people assert that they absolutely do not exist. For themselves, wouldn’t they have lost a lot of fun and fantasy?
