Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes

 

Illustration of Haikouichthys, a fish from the Cambrian period, with a second pair of eyes suggested by fossil evidence. Image courtesy of Xiangtong Lei, Sihang Zhang

Joel Kontinen

Extraordinary fossils of 518-million-year-old jawless fish, among the earliest known vertebrates, appear to show that these animals had two pairs of eyes

Over half a billion years ago, the world’s oldest known vertebrates seem to have sported an extra set of eyes – and humans may still carry a remnant of this ancient evolutionary innovation.

But this isn’t a story of evolutionary innovation. It is a story of Darwinian speculation. And fossils tell the story that evolutionists tend to like.

Extraordinary fossils of two species of jawless fish called myllokunmingids were found by Peiyun Cong at Yunnan University in China, and his colleagues between 2019 and 2024, on the banks of Dianchi Lake in south-west China.

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James Woodford 2026 Our earliest vertebrate ancestors may have had four eyes | New Scientist 21 January

The real reason Saudi Arabia fears a democratic Iran

 

Why does Saudi Arabia fears a democratic Iran? It might have to do with the India to Europe connection, that the American president Trump has spoken for.

Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2

Image courtesy of Carl Christoph Stadie/The Alfred Wegener Institute

Joel Kontinen

It seems that Darwinian evolution and climate change  are the top priority for today.

Cutting down swathes of boreal forest and sinking the trees into the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year. Coniferous trees prone to wildfires could be felled and carried to the ocean by six major Arctic rivers including the Yukon and Mackenzie, where they would sink in about a year, according to a team of researchers.

“There is now a forest that is sequestering lots of carbon, but now the next thing is how to store it in a way that won’t get burned,” says Ulf Büntgen at the University of Cambridge.

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Alec Luhn 2026 Sinking trees in Arctic Ocean could remove 1 billion tonnes of CO2 | New Scientist 9 January 

Why do "Free Palestinian" protesters ignore Iran?

 

Why do "Free Palestinian" protesters ignore Iran? For instance, Greta Thunberg has remained silence about Iran even though a massacre is happening in Iran. 

Syria is failing

What is happening in Syria? The western powers that divided the Ottoman empire use their pencils to divided the land. For example the Kurds did not received their own country. 

Qatar and its soft Jihad is destroying America

 Qatar and its soft Jihad is destroying America.

Is Israel becoming a superpower?

 Israel is not isolated. It is becoming a superpower in the Middle East.