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Mom, are we human? - No, Son, they won't let us in their club yet. - Why?
Panchi-kun (born July 26, 2025), known simply as "Punch [the Monkey]," is a baby Japanese macaque at Japan's animal internment camp, aka Ichikawa City Zoo [1, 2]. Punchy gained viral attention on social media for his attachment to a large orangutan stuffed plush toy doll [3]. According to zoo prison officials, Panchi-kun's internet popularity led to a surge in visitors to the zoo starting in February 2026 [4]. More
At the dawn of human (pre-)history, what did our ancestors do to stay warm in the Ice Age?
Yaxchilan (yacht-chee-lan) is an ancient Maya city located on the bank of the Usumacinta River in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico, near Guatemala (named after the Buddha Gautama plus the word mala or religious beads*). In the Late Classic Period, Yaxchilan was one of the most powerful Maya states along the course of the Usumacinta River, with Piedras Negras ("Black Rocks") as its major rival [1]. Architectural styles in subordinate sites in the Usumacinta region demonstrate clear differences that mark a clear boundary between the two kingdoms [1]. More: Yaxchilan, Mexico
Buddhists came to California and Mexico BEFORE Christianity? Yes, according to American Edward Payson in a miraculous book published more than a century ago:
The first ever recorded kiss [discovered so far] happened 4,500 years ago, scientists suggest after discovering evidence that puts the event 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. A study published in the journal Science points to evidence of kissing in the ancient Middle East, in early Mesopotamian societies, documented in ancient texts from 2,500 BCE.
It's just a "Complicated Game"
XTC (Ecstasy), British band with a deep message in "Dear God"
Ah, romance, it will be the death of us, dragging out our time in samsara (the "Continued Wandering On" of death and rebirth, chasing pleasure first here then there always in search of fulfillment that cannot be found in things.)
(BBC via MSN) Humans do it, monkeys do it, even polar bears do it. And now researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary origins of kissing. Their study suggests that the mouth-on-mouth kiss evolved more than 21 million years ago, and was something that the common ancestor of humans and other great apes probably indulged in.
The same research concluded that Neanderthals may have kissed too – and that [modern] humans and Neanderthals may even have smooched one another. The scientists studied kissing because it presents something of an evolutionary puzzle -- it has no obvious survival or reproductive benefits. Yet, it is something that is seen not just in many human societies, but across the animal kingdom. More
Scientists studying a 4.4-million-year-old fossil named Ardi may have uncovered the evolutionary step ["missing link"] that turned ancient [nonhuman] climbers into early [human-hybrid] walkers
Here’s what there is to learn when reading this Popular Mechanics' story:
Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking.
While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the more apelike human ancestors that came before her, other parts of her feet are more evolved.
It is Ardi’s talus, a bone in the ankle, that lies somewhere between the morphology of the same bone in apes and humans.
As humans, it’s important to remember that some of our oldest primate ancestors were apelike creatures.
Besides our much larger brains and visibly obvious differences, such as facial [structure and] features, one thing we evolved to be much more adept at than chimps and gorillas (which we, according to Darwinism, diverged from millions of years ago) is walking on two feet.
But just when did human predecessors first descend from the trees and walk upright?
A 4.4-million-year-old female skeleton named Ardi may answer that question. Predating even the iconic Lucy (Australopithecus) by a million years, she belongs to the species Ardipithecus ramidus and is revealing more about our human origins and how we became bipedal.
Unearthed in the Ethiopian desert back in 1994, Ardi is the oldest known partial hominin skeleton, though her species has been known since 1925 under the name Australopithecus ramidus.
Biological anthropologist Thomas Prang of Washington University in St. Louis and his research team discovered that Ardi was able to walk upright but still retained a grasping foot and other apelike features.
“Our observations of the human and ape fossil record are inconsistent with recently proposed models of human origins, which envision the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees as a generalized arboreal ape,” he said in a study recently published in Communications Biology.
“Instead, our results strongly imply that humans evolved from an African ape-like ancestor.”
Related video: 300,000-year-old fossils: The true origin of Homo sapiens (History with Kayleigh Official)
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Homo sapiens [not plural homos ("mankind") but Latin for "Thinking man"] belong[s] to the Homo-Pan clade, a group that evolved from a common ancestor and includes [violent, aggressive, militant] chimpanzees, [peaceful sex-centered hippie] bonobos, and both extant and extinct hominin species [Sasquatch, Bigfoot, Almasty, Yakkhas, Yeti, Orang Pendek, etc.]
This is part of a larger clade that gorillas also belong to. It has been argued that Ar. ramidus was more humanlike than apelike and had already evolved out of climbing trees vertically and dropping to all fours and walking on its knuckles in order to get around on land.
What Dr. Prang found was that Ardi is a mashup of primitive and modern features. She has a big toe designed for grasping branches, but other features of her feet, cranial base, and pelvis suggest that her species was adapting to bipedalism.
There is one bone that especially stands out: Ardi’s talus, a bone in the ankle which is also the second largest bone in the back of the foot. It transfers body weight between the lower leg and foot and helps African apes climb.
The talus enables dorsiflexion, or the backwards flexing of the foot, and inversion, the sideways turning of the foot. Both put the animal’s center of mass in a position closer to support, so apes are at much less risk of suffering lethal backward falls.
In ape species that primarily climb trees and primarily use dorsiflexion for vertical climbing, the forefoot is shorter than those of bipeds and quadrupeds, so Dr. Prang’s team turned its focus to the front of Ardi’s foot and also figured out her approximate body mass using the widths of the talar trochlea, or the upper joint surface of the talus.
There have been previous arguments that the morphology of the talar trochlea may not be the greatest indicator of how apes and early humans moved. Gorillas, chimps, bonobos, and gibbons have short forefeet for their body masses, while orangutans and larger monkeys have the longest forefeet.
The human forefoot is longer than those of chimps and gorillas and shorter than those monkeys, but there is still some overlap with bonobos. More
Extraterrestrials have intervened many times.
Michael Cremo, the Forbidden Archeologist, has something to say to the contrary: Human life is FAR older on this earth (bhumi) than science yet admits. And "modern humans" are a misnomer because we are far older, according to ooparts and other pieces of inconvenient (and suppressed) evidence in the fossil and archeological record: We are not evolving but devolving and have been for hundreds of millions of years (in yugas and kalpas as declared by the Dharmic religions).
Buddhist Sri Lanka faces a nationwide blackout because, officials claim, a monkey caused a power outage (WION Dispatch)
(WION) Feb. 10, 2025: The Buddhist majority island nation of Sri Lanka (the teardrop off the tip of southern India formerly named Serendib and Ceylon), not far from the Maldives, was plunged into a nationwide power crisis. A monkey did it, allegedly. The unexpected electrical outage has sparked debates over infrastructure security and energy reliability in the island nation.
#srilanka #poweroutage #blackout
8.7-million-year-old skull just discovered in Turkey rewrites history!
These are my ancestors, the hominines
(Discovery Future) A groundbreaking discovery in Turkey (Türkiye) is challenging the long-held belief that humans and great apes evolved exclusively in Africa.
Meet Anadoluvius turkae, an 8.7-million-year-old fossil that has sparked a bold hypothesis: The evolutionary lineage leading to humans — known as hominines — may have originated in Europe before migrating to Africa.
Unearthed from the Çorakyerler fossil site in northern Turkey (central Anatolia), this remarkably well-preserved partial cranium sheds new light on our evolutionary past.
Scientists believe that Anadoluvius turkae lived in dry forest environments alongside animals like giraffes, zebras, and lion-like predators, many of which later migrated to Africa.
The implications are profound. If true, this discovery suggests that hominines evolved and diversified in Europe for over 5,000,000 (five million) years before spreading to the eastern Mediterranean and eventually moving into Africa.
This challenges the traditional "Out of Africa" narrative and rekindles debates about where our earliest ancestors first emerged.
Join us as we explore the fascinating story of Anadoluvius turkae, delve into the broader context of primate evolution, and examine the shifting environments that may have driven these migrations.
What does this mean for our understanding of human origins? And what mysteries still await beneath the earth?
🔍 Stay tuned for more insights into humanity’s ancient history, and don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe for updates on the latest discoveries in science and archaeology!
#HumanOrigins#Evolution #FossilDiscovery #Paleoanthropology #Anadoluvius #GreatApes #ScienceExplained #TurkeyFossils #MioceneEpoch #PrimateEvolution
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Trump’s new squeeze Elon Musk, comic book villain cabinet secretaries, and Don Jr. mocks Ukraine's Zelensky
(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Nov. 11, 2024: Lame Duck Pres. Genocide-Joe Biden [who is a resuscitated corpse occupied by an archon spirit who is having trouble steering] spent the weekend at the beach and took a terrifying stroll, G-Joe and the Donald are scheduled to meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday to ensure a smooth and peaceful transfer of power, Team Trump has missed multiple deadlines for signing the ethics pledge, we are starting to learn about the cabinet secretaries who will soon be hired and then fired by DJ including Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA, Tom Homan [the author of Project 2025] as "Immigration Czar," Stephen Miller as Deputy Chief of Staff, and Susie Wiles as DJ’s Chief of Staff, Elon Musk has been spending all of his time at Mar-a-Lago Palace, there has been a lot of gloating from “celebrity” Republicans, Don Trump Jr. reposted a video mocking Dictator Strawman Public Relations hir Pres. Vlad Zelensky of Ukraine, DJ wrote that the NFL should get rid of the “ridiculous” new kickoff rule, experimental lab monkeys are on the loose in South Carolina and it’s right out of a movie, more than 10,000 troops from North Korea have been deployed to Russia and have reportedly been gorging on pornography, Mattel made special dolls for the new Wicked movie and they accidentally listed the web address to a porn site on the box, and we sent a team out to Hollywood Blvd. to ask pedestrians about some of the most important people in history. #Kimmel
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German Nazi scientists and engineers built the "Folk's Wagon" for the people (folks).
Everyone has something to hide...except me and my monkey. Where the Beatles at?
These photos were kept hidden for a reason
I'm in another dimension.
(Golden Rewind) Oct. 22, 2024: These Woodstock photos were kept hidden for a reason. They reveal a lot about the iconic music and arts festival might just shock viewers.
This video dives into newly unveiled images and the untold stories behind the historic event 55 years ago.
On August 15th, 1969, over 400,000 people gathered at a farm in Bethel, New York, for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, a festival that symbolized the spirit of the 1960s.
Photographer Baron Wolman was there to document the event, capturing unseen moments of this cultural phenomenon.
It was summer and I wanted demo for peace.
In June 2014, nearly half a century later, some of his hidden photographs were finally revealed in a London photographic exhibition.
Stay tuned to uncover the untold stories behind these rare photos and the festival that changed a generation.
Entrance was free for last minute ticket shoppers. It was copeacetic and totally far out.
There was lots of free food (hippie grub) and warm vibes serving it. Power to the people.
I can't see. Can you tell them to move their heads? - Just tune in, turn on, and drop out, Man.
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Mahayana Buddhist monks and nuns among Hindu parishioners at Sunday's Pran Pratishtha ceremony, during unveiling of 90-foot statue of Lord Hanuman (Sri Ashtalakshmi Temple)
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Monkeys are fun-loving and inquisitive mammals
Astonishing photographs of a 90-foot statue of the Hindu God Lord Hanuman — the third largest statue in the U.S.A. — have been obtained by Newsweek, following the unveiling ceremony in Texas.
The monument, known as the Statue of Union, stands at the Sri Ashta Lakshmi Temple in Sugar Land, Texas. Lord Hanuman is depicted as human, but with the head and tail of a monkey, as is customary.
The statue is holding both hands palm forward (mudra) and the end of the tail is twisted above the head, creating a halo effect.
Hanuman is a Hindu god known for his power, courage, and selfless service. He is also a symbol of power and celibacy.
The statue's unveiling on Sunday marks rapidly changing religious demographics in the U.S., with surveys showing a decline in the proportion of Americans who identify as Christian and a rise in those who say they are "nothing in particular" (the NONEs) or belong to religions which are followed by a minority in the U.S.
Speaking to Newsweek Ranganath Kandala, joint secretary of the Ashtalakshmi Temple, confirmed the statue is 90-foot-tall and said it was inaugurated in a Pran Pratishtha ceremony on August 18, celebrating it as a living embodiment of the deity. USA's new 'third tallest' statue
The Sanskrit word pratiṣṭhā, which in general usage means "placement" of a murti(embodied solid object), is translated by Apte as "the consecration of a vessel or dwelling" [3].
The adjective pratiṣṭha means "installed" [4]. Prana means "life force, breath, spirit." The phrase Prana Pratishtha is a ritual that means "placing the breath-of-life into the image to establish it" [WQ] or "bringing life to the temple" [2].
It is also referred to as murti sthapana (image placement inside the temple). Traditionally, this was the step when the eye of the murti was sculpted open [2], inside the inner sanctuary (garbhagriha, the Purusha space) of a Hindu temple.
This ritual typically involves a devotional ritual (puja) and the chanting of Sanskrit mantras as the deity is moved from outside into the center place.
It includes inviting the deity to become a resident guest of the temple, bathing and cleansing it, similar to welcoming a revered guest after a long journey.
This is followed by dressing and seating the deity in a place of comfort, with the image's face oriented towards the east (signifying the sunrise), followed by a Nyasa ceremony with hymns (act of touching different parts of the murti, symbolizing the presence of various gods as sensory organs:
The Hindu priest recites specific mantras and performs rituals to infuse the idol with the animating life force or "holy spirit" (prana).
During this process, the deity descends into the idol, making it a living representation [5]. After the infusion of prana, the deity is considered blessed and consecrated.
Devotees often seek the deity's blessings at this point. The ritual also includes the spraying of scented water and flowers, with the Chaksu͡unmilan ceremony (Sanskrit chakshu unmilan, "opening of the divine eye"), marking the high point of the ritual [6]. The image is then considered fully consecrated. More
James Bickerton, Newsweek.com via MSN.com, 8/22/24; CC Liu, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Ancient Aliens: Biblical proof of alien contact (Season 17)
(HISTORY) May 23, 2024: Ancient Astronaut theorists believe that extraterrestrials manipulated human DNA to activate specific parts of the brain to connect with them, in this clip from Season 17, "The Human Experiment."
WQ COMMENTARY
Syrian rue? Amanita muscaria? DMT forms
The fruit was not an apple, nor does the Bible ever call it an apple. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil refers to DMT (the Spirit Molecule) and most likely came in the form of a magic mushroom or similar substance.
The Adam (Adama) was a generation of humans, not a man, and Eve (like the softer, darker, Yin energy of our feminine side) was a part of that new generation on Earth (the Garden) or some part of it, most likely more than one place.
Eve was not the first woman; the woman before her was named Lilith.
The "Serpent" was a reptilian humanoid, not a garden snake. (Was this being evil and misleading humans or a Sumerian god trying to free humans from their bondage and ignorance. See the pre-biblical Mesopotamian/Sumerian Enki and Enlil story in the history of humanity).
And the "gods" and "God" were extraterrestrials manipulating genetics to create a race of beings out of previous races and species.
The Jewish-Christian God had a wife; her name was Asherah, Queen of Heaven, and she was worshipped widely throughout polytheistic Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East with poles that depicted her until the great patriarchy smashed all of that and erased or rewrote the record.
Not only is the Bible rewritten, redacted, partially forged, it is still being changed (Mandela Effect and in modern interpretations and translations, going from, for example, the Geneva to the King James Version that banned the previous Geneva version.
In the beginning was not the beginning; there were earlier iterations.
And the process is still going on.
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