M.J. Rose

I have a bet going with some friends that verifiable evidence of Bigfoot will be discovered in the next fews years. It turns out I am not alone in my insanity – there is a “long bet” going here between Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand on this very matter.

In this vein, the news has just offered something quite unexpected, a true “living fossil”:

Found: Whale Thought Extinct for 2 Million Years

By Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer | LiveScience.com –

The pygmy whale, a mysterious cetacean …

The pygmy right whale, a mysterious and elusive creature that rarely comes to shore, is the last living relative of an ancient group of whales long believed to be extinct, a new study suggests.

The findings, published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, may help to explain why the enigmatic marine mammals look so different from any other living whale.

“The living pygmy right whale is, if you like, a remnant, almost like a living fossil,” said Felix Marx, a paleontologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand. “It’s the last survivor of quite an ancient lineage that until now no one thought was around.”

For the complete article click here.

This news is from last month, but just in case you haven’t heard: The “immortal jellyfish” can transform itself back into a polyp and begin life anew.

Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality?

By NATHANIEL RICH

Takashi Murai

“After more than 4,000 years — almost since the dawn of recorded time, when Utnapishtim told Gilgamesh that the secret to immortality lay in a coral found on the ocean floor — man finally discovered eternal life in 1988. He found it, in fact, on the ocean floor. The discovery was made unwittingly by Christian Sommer, a German marine-biology student in his early 20s. He was spending the summer in Rapallo, a small city on the Italian Riviera, where exactly one century earlier Friedrich Nietzsche conceived “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”: “Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again. . . .”

For the complete article click here to go to the New York Times.

Are we a species with Amnesia? What is the real history of ancient Egypt and the world?

So much evidence points to the idea that a very advanced civilization existed in antiquity, and was destroyed at the end of the last ice age when massive floods overtook the globe. The worldwide flood myths alone support this idea, and as it turns out the Egyptians also have a flood myth – all signs point to their civilization blooming out of the ashes of the survivors of a lost land that was overcome by water – could it be Atlantis?

Author and lecturer Graham Hancock has a very eloquent talk about all this that he presented recently at the 2012 Conference. He ties it all together in a way that is very, very convincing indeed –