Strange metal shot found in bones of extinct giants
This week at a convention of the US Geophysical Union, Berkeley Laboratory employee, chemistry doctor Richard Firestone, presented eight mammoth tusks found in Alaska and the skull of a prehistoric bison from Siberia to the audience. The bones seem to have been cut by a shot. But the most surprising thing is that at the bottom of the holes with the help of a magnet, the grains themselves were found - metal peas with a diameter of 2 - 3 millimeters. Their composition is approximately the same: an alloy of iron and nickel with a small addition of titanium. Who shot tens of thousands of years ago?
Scientists have long assumed that mammoths and other prehistoric giants became extinct due to the fact that a giant fireball exploded over North America in time immemorial. And its fragments poured onto the Earth as a meteor shower, from which large animals could not hide. For several years Firestone and his colleagues have been looking for evidence to support their hypothesis. They turned to a firm that sells the bones of extinct animals (in America such an activity is legal), and examined thousands of surviving fragments.
The idea was a success. The substance found in tusks is very similar in composition to the material that makes up most of the iron meteorites that sometimes fall to Earth. But this did not diminish the mysteries. All finds have different ages - from 26 to 34 thousand years. It is unbelievable that a meteor shower has been going on for several millennia. It is also impossible that huge "aliens from outer space" exploded over America several times. And how to explain that the animals affected by the meteorite lived both in Alaska and in Siberia? In addition, the bison survived after the "shot" - the entrance hole in the skull was overgrown, walled up the grain in the bones. Yes, and finally these animals disappeared from the Earth only ten - fifteen thousand years ago.
There is no answer to these questions yet.
SPECIALIST OPINION
Primitive people are to blame
Dmitry BADYUKOV, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Deputy Head of the Meteorics Laboratory of the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences:
- In composition, the samples found really look like fragments of meteorites. Still, I would like to see the results of a detailed analysis of their composition. If we assume that these are "guests from heaven", then the ingress of particles into the bones of animals can be explained. My version is as follows: in the deserts, where the fallen "space guests" are easiest to detect, there are practically no iron meteorites. Only stone or stone-iron. Because ancient people willingly used meteorite iron for arrowheads and spears. And any iron meteorite found was crushed to complete destruction.
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It can be assumed that both the mammoths from Alaska and the bison from Siberia suffered from hunters with such a "superweapon". After all, these areas in the past have also been repeatedly bombarded from space.