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 ...
Nama quala lama land. Where the ancient termites roam.
Oh give me a home, where them termites do roam and the beer and the cantaloupe play 🎶
Thanks Cronos.
The article doesn't say that the mound has been continually inhabited for 34,000 years.
The solution is that all the termites not onboard the Ark were drowned, but that the mound survived, and was subsequently re-populated.
Sheesh!
Regards,
Guess I’d have to say, 2 of each species?
Thanks for the laugh, still chuckling at that response!
That’s also what first came to mind.
But whether or not one believes is floods and other disasters is really not part of the issue.
The issue here is discovered by scientists. The breed of scientists today are of the glowbull warming and COVID type and their credibility is aligned with the propaganda division of the rat party.
In other words, I do not believe it.
I take the account of Noah’s ark literally.
I find it the most reasonable explanation of what we observe today.
It explains not only the speciation we see, but also geology and weather.
Well I for one welcome our termite overlords..........
Yes, I believe in the Word of God. Noah was real, we all are related to him through his sons and their wives. Water was high enough for marine life fossils to be found at high altitudes on the American continent, so that seems to indicate that seawater put them there. Of course, I can only guess from what I’ve learned from others. It was not my field of study in college.
Three rings for the Elven kings under the sky
Seven rings for the Dwarf lords in their halls of stone
Nine rings for Men who above all else desire power
And 34,000 rings for termites. Just because.
There are over 200 flood legends worldwide. That’s a lot of different cultures passing down the same, or similar stories.
How long can you tread water?
Of course, there was a huge flood in the past. First civilizations were founded in a River Valley. So naturally, all of them had a "great flood story".
Also, the Nile River flooded annually between May and September from ancient Egypt until the 20th century when dams were built.
Yes, but the river flooding doesn’t generate a world wide flood story, it generates a springtime flood story.
One family surviving on a boat with a bunch of animals has been passed down worldwide.
All we know is that first civilizations were built near rivers. And at the time, there were no ships that were ocean worthy.
How do we know there were no ocean worthy vessels?
I would say there was probably no river flooding before it ever rained.
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