In the 1970s, paleontologist Dale Russell, while excavating in the Canadian province of Alberta, found the skull of an unusual dinosaur. The size of the cranium indicated that it once contained a massive brain, many times larger than the brain of not only modern reptiles, but also of great apes.
The riddle of troodon
The unusual, almost "humanoid" appearance of the Troodon (or Stenonychosaurus) greatly impressed the Canadian paleontologist. Apparently, troodons had very large, widely spaced eyes and had developed binocular vision, like humans, some higher mammals and birds.
This type of vision allows you to obtain a three-dimensional image and accurately determine the distance to distant objects. This allowed troodons to effectively pursue prey, move accurately to their intended target and navigate well on the ground.
In addition, troodons moved on their hind limbs and had well-developed front legs equipped with dexterous grasping fingers. With the help of their "hands" the lizards could pick up objects from the ground, throw stones and hold sticks in them.
Finally, these unusual dinosaurs were collective animals. Judging by the traces they left, the Troodons hunted together and spent time. They, like humans, had highly developed cerebellum and medulla oblongata, which, in principle, could allow troodons to understand each other, reflect on their surroundings and jointly develop successful tactics of group hunting. From all this, the Canadian paleontologist and his colleagues made a sensational conclusion: possessing such developed organs of thought, stenonychosaurs a hundred million years ago could have created a prototype of a kind of community, reminiscent of civilization …
Together with a group of enthusiasts - biologists, geologists and paleontologists - Russell tried to build a hypothetical evolutionary path that the Troodons could have traveled. Ultimately, the "standard" Stenonychosaurus turned into a creature that the international team of researchers unanimously called "dinosauroid".
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A hypothetical dinosaur model. Dinosaur Museum, Dorchester (England)
Based on the group's sketches, sculptor Ron Segun made a fiberglass composition of human and dinosaur figures, which takes pride of place in the Canadian Museum of Nature in the capital. Today there are special "paleontological programs" for 3D printers - devices that use the method of layer-by-layer creation of a physical object from a digital 3D model.
With the help of such technologies, you can create your own "Jurassic Park" with a variety of dinosaurs - from the very frightening species of Stenonychosaurus to pretty "humanoid" dinosaurs.
Snake-like aliens
Information about aliens, similar to reptiles, is rather scarce and contradictory. For example, the ufologist D. Carpenter, known in certain "non-academic" circles, who has been dealing with the problem of reptilians for many years, says that almost all eyewitnesses describe them in the same way.
They are tall, upright creatures. Their height reaches two meters. The skull is somewhat reminiscent of a human, but with pronounced features of lizards. The skin consists of small greenish-brown scales with brown spots. The eyes are bulging, golden, with large transparent eyelids covering the vertical pupils.
On the skull, sometimes there are fleshy growths that resemble a bird's comb. The body is disproportionate with a massive tail, missing to the ground, relatively thin arms with four-fingered hands and membranes ending in claws. The creatures make harsh guttural sounds.
At the beginning of this year, a large-scale international archaeological expedition ended, which worked at the site of the oldest human settlements in the Mexican state of Jalisco. After processing the collected material, one of the artifacts found was recently exhibited at the Mexico City Archaeological Museum and immediately attracted everyone's attention.
This item was found away from an abandoned stepped pyramid and is a jade figurine of a rather strange creature. Some ufologists immediately dubbed him the oldest reptilian. The dating of such finds found outside the cultural layers is always quite difficult, and in this case archaeologists only cautiously estimate the age of a strange artifact at several millennia.
On the snake-like figurine, you can see some strange signs, one of which resembles a symbol of the sun, and it looks like the artifact depicts some kind of unusual clothing.
Archeology professor Carlos Antonio believes that there is still very little data for final conclusions, but the manner in which the figurine is made is clearly unusual and not found in museum exhibitions.
Suddenly news came from distant China. There, during the excavation of mysterious underground galleries of the era of the Shang dynasty, terracotta zoomorphic figurines were found, similar in many details to a Mexican artifact. Chinese archaeologists attribute these snake-like gods to the pre-dynastic Yangshao period, when many very strange beliefs arose, which subsequently merged with Shintoism and Buddhism.
Chinkanas mazes
The most interesting and grandiose mystery is the underworld of Latin America, containing the giant rock labyrinths of the chinkanas - as the locals call the numerous caves connected to each other.
Dungeon entrances
One of the most famous entrances to the dungeons is located in the Peruvian city of Cuzco, on the site of the Temple of the Sun that once stood here. The very same underground system of caves, grottoes and passages stretches for many hundreds of kilometers and supposedly reaches the borders of Brazil and Ecuador. Local Indians are extremely reluctant to accompany expeditions of archaeologists and cavers, believing that some kind of "snake people", extremely hostile to people, live in the intricate passages.
Nevertheless, the number of labyrinth researchers is constantly increasing. After all, around the Chinkanas there are many legends telling about the secrets of the "Inca gold" and other treasures. Meanwhile, the labyrinths are really dangerous, and the number of hidden treasure hunters in them is in the tens.
The most famous tragedy of the complex Franco-American expedition. In the early 50s of the last century, mountain rescuers picked up an extremely emaciated person in the mountains of Peru. It turned out to be a French professor of archeology and ethnography Philippe Lamontiere. After regaining consciousness, he told a terrible story about how the expedition was attacked by some underground creatures resembling giant lizards on their hind legs.
Snake-like monsters dragged the professor's companions into the bottomless abyss, and he himself miraculously escaped from the snake's embrace and wandered in pitch darkness for several days before getting to the surface. Soon Lamontiere showed signs of a terrible infection of the bubonic plague, and a few days later he died in terrible agony.
Among the highlanders of the Andes, myths and legends have long been circulating about the people-snakes living in deep caves connected by intricate tunnels. It is on these ethnographic sources that the hypothesis of the same Dale Russell is based, who settled the distant descendants of Stenonychosaurs in the Chinkanas underground world.
According to Russell, reptoids could have evolved much earlier than humans, which allowed intelligent lizards to settle in the underworld of South America. Russell's historical reconstruction is somewhat confirmed by many cave Indian frescoes, on which you can find images of both figures resembling reptilians and people who are near dinosaurs.
It is possible that Russell is really right about something, and the Chinkanas, in accordance with ancient Indian legends, once became a haven for ancient dinosaurs. Although the idea of the existence of an underground civilization of intelligent lizards that hide in the depths of the earth from prying human eyes seems too fantastic even for urban legends.
Riddle of the Anunnaki
In the most ancient literary sources that have come down to our days, as well as in ancient legends and myths, plots are often found, the main characters of which are snakes, lizards or dragons. According to legends, once upon a time, wise snake-headed “teachers” descended from heaven on fiery tails, who “by the power of their gaze” subjugated tribes and peoples.
Legends of "antediluvian times" say that they ruled city-states like ancient Greek Athens and entire kingdoms in Upper Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Ancient Indian epics praise the wise rule of the serpentine dynasties, which was interrupted by internecine wars. Most likely, all "serpentine kingdoms" were slave-owning despotism, and at some point the relationship between the ruling dynasties of the Reptilians and people came to a critical point.
A series of endless uprisings began, and the surviving snake-like creatures were forced to seek refuge in remote areas of the Earth. Like amphibians, they rushed into impassable swamps and underground reservoirs, where they re-created their world, only occasionally emerging to the surface.
Modern urban legends persistently associate the surviving dinosaurs with the antediluvian "divine tribe of the Anunnaki." The Anunnaki are mentioned several times in various Sumerian chronicles, recorded on clay tablets. There you can find references to creatures "who came from heaven" and "those who are noble cold green bloods." Historians of Mesopotamia believe that the genealogy of various Sumerian, Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian gods and heroes came from the Anunnaki.
So are there distant descendants of serpentine aliens or in the depths of the caves are the remnants of the powerful earthly race of reptilians hiding?
Cryptozoologists hope to get answers to these questions soon, persistently organizing new expeditions to the "lost worlds" of our planet.
Oleg FAYG
