The truth about Sheikh Jarrah

People from all word the globe are claiming that the disturbances in Jerusalem are caused by the Israeli police to silence the Arabs.  However, this video tells the true story of what is happening.

Frog from the dinosaur era found in Madagascar

 

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Joel Kontinen

Paleontologists in Madagascar recently discovered an exceptionally well-preserved fossil of a new and extinct species of turtle, dating back to the late Cretacoeus period, which according to evolution, began some 100 million years ago. . .

The turtle was called  Sahonachelys mailakavava, which means "quick-mouthed frog turtle" in Malagasy.

Researchers say that the turtle is  an example of convergent evolution as it resembles another turtle of a different group. 

Source:

Baker, Harry, 2021. Ancient turtle with a frog face sucked down its prey millions of years ago.  Live Science 6 May. 

Bird Song Can Explain The Evolution Of Human Language

 

Image courtesy of Sławomir Staszczuk, CC BY-SA 3.0. 

Joel Kontinen

Language is one of the most notable abilities humans have. It allows us to express complex meanings and transmit knowledge from generation to generation. An important question in human biology is how this ability ended up being developed. in the evolutionary way.  

 In the study, the authors show how the activity of glutamate tends to promote the release of dopamine in the striatum, an evolutionary old brain structure important for reward-based learning and motor output. “In adult songbirds, the increase in dopamine release in this striatal area is correlated with the learning of a more restricted song, which replaces experimental vocalizations typical of young birds”. “Regarding human beings and other mammals” —–the authors add—, “dopamine release in the dorsal striatum promotes restrictive and repetitive motor outputs, such as vocalizations, while other more experimental and exploratory behaviours are supported by the dopaminergic activity of the ventral striatum”.

According to the study, many of the glutamatergic signalling genes that have changed in recent human evolution code for receptors that reduce the excitation of the dorsal striatum. Meanwhile, these receptors tend not to reduce activity, and even promote, the dopamine release, in ventral striatal regions.

 This is just another example of evolutionary storytelling. Birds are birds and humans are humans.

 Source:  

 University of Barcelona. 2021,"What does the study of domesticated birds tell us about the evolution of human language? Looking for keys of the human language evolution in bird singing.. Science Daily, 19 April. .

Jerusalem Day: Celebrating the Return to Israel’s Ancient Capital

It is Jerusalem day in Israel. The eastern portion of the was captured in the 1967 war, But it has always been Israel’s capital since 3000 years ago.

This year, however, the Arabs are fighting to capture Jerusalem. but God gave it to Israel, Jerusalem will stay  in Israel. 

 

Giant mammoth leg discovered in Florida

 

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Joel Kontinen 

Two divers found the bone in the Peace River in Florida, They found the 22,7 kilogram or 5o pound leg. 

They also found extinct sharks and the tooth of a saber-tooth cat, which would mean that marine and  terrestrial animals were discovered together, this suggest the flood on Noah’s time.

According to evolution, mammoth that arrived in North America from Siberia around 1.5million years ago, according to research analysis, .

 

 Source:   

Pappas, Stephanie, 2021, Divers discover massive thigh bone from Ice Age mammoth in Florida river. 

 Live Science  5 May. 

Tarantulas were Cretaceous animals

 

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Joel Kontinen 

Some animals are ancient, Take the tarantulas, which are found in homes all over the world.

The  researchers found that tarantulas are ancient, first emerging in the piece of land now considered the Americas about 120 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. At that time South America would have been attached to Africa, India and Australia as part of the Gondwana supercontinent. The spiders ultimately reached their present destinations due to rift continental drift, with a few interesting departures.

Source:  

Jocelyn Duffy, Carnegie Mellon UniversityTarantula's ubiquity traced back to the cretaceous Phys. org  10 April. 

Some People Said They Saw The Bigfoot

 

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Joel Kontinen

One of the bizarre creatures of the evolution paradigm is the idea of Bigfoot. It is thought to be a hairy human like creature. it is also known as  Sasquatch.

The word Sasquatch is derived from Sasq’ets, a word from the Halq’emeylem language used by some Salish First Nations peoples in southwestern British Columbia.

Now, a lot of people have seen bigfoot. But their evidence seems to be like UFO sightings or the lok nest views.  .

In 2009, national geographic stated that is was one of the scoientific hoaxes of our time,

For almost the same reason , the Indian army was  tweeting about yeti,

Now, some people have said that Bigffoot is a human ancestor.

Source:  

 Radford Benjamin , 2021, Is Bigfoot real? You likely already know the answer. Live Science 1 May.