Posted on 07/06/2024 6:36:48 PM PDT by Cronos
Scientists in South Africa have been stunned to discover that termite mounds that are still inhabited in an arid region of the country are more than 30,000 years old, meaning they are the oldest known active termite hills.
Some of the mounds near the Buffels River in Namaqualand were estimated by radiocarbon dating to be 34,000 years old, according to the researchers from Stellenbosch University.
“We knew they were old, but not that old,” said Michele Francis, senior lecturer in the university’s department of soil science who led the study. Her paper was published in May.
Francis said the mounds existed while saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths roamed other parts of the Earth and large swathes of Europe and Asia were covered in ice. They predate some of the earliest cave paintings in Europe.
...the Namaqualand mounds are a termite version of an “apartment complex” and the evidence shows they have been consistently inhabited by termite colonies.
Termite mounds are a famous feature of the Namaqualand landscape, but no one suspected their age until samples of them were taken to experts in Hungary for radiocarbon dating.
...The southern harvester termites are experts at capturing and storing carbon by collecting twigs and other dead wood and putting it back deep into the soil
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
OK, I guess.
So they survived the Noahic Flood 3,000 years ago?. How’d they DO that?
So they survived the Noahic Flood 3,000 years ago?. How’d they DO that?
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Uh, cause there wasn’t any world wide flood 3,000 years ago.
>> Scientists stunned
to say they had certain expectations?
Air pockets maybe? When termite hills get flooded, they have to survive until the water recedes. They apparently can be underwater for about a day before drowning. As to Noah’s flood, God would’ve provided for all the creatures who could survive without the ark.
The Earth isn’t 34,000 years old.
God killed everything that wasn’t on the Ark.
So Joe Biden went into politics when termite mounds were new... basically.
How many whales were on the ark?
Must be the size of CA. Oh, that’’s the problem.
Illegal termites.
They must have built their own ark.
“...active for 34,000 years”
Man, that’s a lot of termite rings to count.
I guess the great flood of Noah’s time didn’t wipe out the termites.
“...active for 34,000 years”
Man, that’s a lot of termite rings to count.
And they would be so tiny too!
Why haven’t they developed a form of writing by now?
They keep eating the stationery before they can write on it.
Amazing! But not surprising.
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