Two massive sea creatures found in the world’s largest cave, located in Kentucky
Mammoth Cave tour, Kentucky, Deep South
Hidden beneath [landlocked] Kentucky's rolling hills lies Mammoth Cave, the world's largest known cave system.
Recently, scientists made a jaw-dropping discovery that has rocked the scientific community -- fossils of two massive prehistoric sea creatures (ancient sharks).
New heart-stopping footage of massive great white shark attack
(CNN) Jeff Kurr, the producer and director of Discovery's "Shark Week," discusses footage his team captured of a great white shark destroying a diver's enclosure. (Discovery and CNN share a corporate parent, Warner Bros. Discovery.)
Florida's waters hide a beast: Record-breaking great white shark discovered offshore
Scientists have found the largest great white shark ever recorded swimming in the Atlantic Ocean.
[Do they grow bigger in the Pacific Ocean near California, the Mariana Trench, or Hawaii? Years ago, I saw one I'd estimate was one ton and 15 feet from a trawler in Santa Monica Bay as swimmers and surfers frolicked on LA and OC County beaches without a care in the world. This fish was so big, had I fallen from the rail, it could have swallowed me without chewing like a biblical whale. It was so big and alarming as it surfaced, chasing a halibut, I carefully climbed off the rail as my hair stood on end. This predator was no joke and bigger than Jaws.]
The largest white shark in the Northwest Atlantic, named "Contender," was found off the coast of Georgia on Jan. 17th, 2025. Ocearch, a nonprofit conducting research on sharks, reported that ocean researchers have been tracking Contender's movements around the Atlantic.
As of Sunday, Contender was swimming off the coast of Florida, near the tourist beaches of Orlando, near Disneyland (Walt Disney World), where kids love to go and cool off.
The shark is measured at 13.8 feet long, weighing an estimated 1,653 pounds. He has swum nearly 200 miles since he was first tagged.
By tracking Contender the researchers will be able to learn more about his migration patterns. The tag will record real time data for the next five years on Contender's movements. More
Are orcas (killer whales/dolphins) apex predators? - How big could a giant squid even be?
Today is World Dolphin Day. Of course, we don't have to worry in the States because we worship this sea mammal on April 14th on NATIONAL DOLPHIN DAY each year when we recognize the social and intelligent mammals of the sea.
#NationalDolphinDay
Hey, Baby, come here often? - I'm a bird.
Dolphins are cetacean mammals that are related to whales and porpoises (and orcas or killer "whales" are actually giant dolphins). They range in size from 4 feet to up to 30 feet; dolphins are among almost forty species in 17 genera.
Found worldwide, they prefer the shallower seas of the continental shelves.
As predatory carnivores, their diet consists of mostly fish and squid.
[But they will rape and take a nip out of a human, smothering swimmers, taking them down to the seafloor to drown and/or penetrate, as was recently witnessed in Japan in gang rapes of swimmers at the beach by juvenile pods. They can get awful "friendly" in Hawaii, too, and jealous once they bond to a human. Others better watch out, and that human better watch out. Oh, Flipper, so named because they can flip out.]
Celebrated annually on the last Wednesday in March, "Manatee Appreciation Day" is more than just a tribute – it’s a global call to protect the gentle giants [related to elephants] of the sea.
Manatees have no natural predators [other than motorboaters swinging brutal propeller blades], which contributes to their serene demeanor. However, this does not mean they are without threats.
Human activities pose significant risks to manatee populations. Despite these challenges, manatees have shown remarkable resilience, with conservation efforts playing a crucial role in protecting them.
A childlike heart will yet believe even as adults scoff at ancient lore.
I know what I saw! (Cristobal Columbus)
MERMAIDS (mythical half-female, half-fish creatures) have existed in seafaring lore at least since the time of the ancient Greeks. Typically depicted as having a woman’s head and torso, a fishtail instead of legs, and holding a mirror and comb, mermaids live in the ocean and, according to some legends, can take on a human shape and marry mortal men [as in the selkie lore of Ireland, Manx, Scotland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, the British Isles]. Mermaids are closely linked to sirens, another folkloric figure, part-woman, part-bird, who live on islands and sing seductive songs to lure sailors [like Homer's Odysseus and his crew] to their deaths. Mermaid sightings by sailors, when they weren’t made up, were most likely manatees, dugongs, or Steller’s sea cows (which became extinct by the 1760s due to cruel human over-hunting). Manatees are slow-moving aquatic mammals with human-like eyes, bulbous faces... (HISTORY*)
SUTRA: In a very strange Buddhist sutra, Great Moggallana, the male disciple declared by the Buddha as "foremost in psychic powers" mentions that at the bottom of the sea, there are indeed mermaids who dance seductively. A reference to shapeshifting space aliens living in bases below the ocean? There is worldwide awareness that at some point in the past, there really were vicious creatures who swam the seas, just as reports of harpies and others were reported by many cultures. Let's examine what one of the Buddha's four chief disciples said of these mysterious creatures from MN 50:
Alas, no further mention of the sea-nymph mermaid selkies is made in this sutra, Is it reasonable to think the great monk was simply repeating Indian or Scythian lore? He was addressing Mara, to warn him what was to happen for bad karma of the sort this mara was accumulating. Modern people don't believe in Mara, despite the Mara Samyutta, and all those references to him by the Buddha. There's a thick translation of The Connected Discourses by American Theravada scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi that includes it. So if Mara, a kind of Tempter -- Lucifer, Cupid, Eros, Devil -- figure in Buddhism could be real, are mermaids so hard to believe in, existing underwater by inhabiting vimanas ("mansions" that areUSOs) so hard to swallow?
Human activities have not been kind to manatees. Boating, pollution, and habitat destruction stand out as the three greatest threats.
Despite legal protections against hunting, manatees continue to be poached for their meat and hides. Furthermore, their natural habitats, crucial for their survival, are being decimated by human development and intrusion.
Boat strikes are particularly alarming, leading to tragic injuries or even death for these gentle creatures. This dire situation underlines the urgency of increasing awareness so that manatees will continue to exist in the future.
Getting to know sea cows
Secret places, Mexico's cenotes, near Belize
Manatees, also known as the cows of the sea[even though their closest relatives are elephants], are a marvel of marine life, characterized by their gentle nature and slow-moving grace [which caused people like Christopher Columbus to report mermaid sighting, possibly with the intention to violate them as he was planning for the gentle Indigenous humans he met].
These large, aquatic mammals belong to the order Sirenia [which is interesting because the Spanish word for "mermaid" issirena], which also includes three species of dugongs.
One of the most captivating aspects of manatees is their all-veganherbivorous diet, as they feed on a wide variety of submerged, floating, and emergent plants in fresh and saltwater environments. More
With my P-9 camera with super zoom or with a lens attachment, why can't we see the landing like we see details of craters and a strange regular screen wave like a hologram artifact might look? It's not as if the lander is going to the dark side, but rather the side facing us.
It's odd that a flying machine that goes through radiation belts and a quarter million mile journey is wrapped in mylar and/or tinfoil and that a photo of it is an obvious CGI with a laughable grey clipart moon. The moon should be very bright with all that sun it's reflecting, and it is actually known to have a lot of color. This is not an independent private project but one meddled with to not reveal anything NASA has been claiming to have accomplished over the decades.
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The moon emits light...or it reflects like this.
Hours ahead of its moon landing, Odysseus snapped a picture of a lunar crater.
The Intuitive Machines lander beamed home an image of the Bel’kovich K crater, a roughly 31-mile (50-kilometer) divot in the moon's northern equatorial highlands.
Odysseus successfully entered lunar orbit on Wednesday following a crucial engine burn and is slated to touch down near the moon's south pole on Thursday afternoon (Feb. 22) no earlier than 4:24 pm EST (2144 GMT).
Tune in to the [supposed] landing live at Space.com, courtesy of NASA ["Never A Straight Answer"], or directly via the space agency. Coverage will begin at 3:00 pm EST (2100 GMT).
If Odysseus makes it, the lander will be the first private machine to successfully soft land on the moon and the first American vehicle overall to do so since the crewed Apollo 17 mission achieved the feat in 1972.
The mission launched on Feb. 15 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, bringing along 12 payloads for lunar investigations.
Six of those experiments are from NASA and associated with the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, or CLPS.
Water means life, atmosphere, fuel, and crops.
NASA aims to use CLPS missions for science investigations ahead of the agency's Artemis program, which itself plans to put astronauts back on the moon in the 2020s and eventually establish a permanent base at the lunar south pole.
The region is rich in water (ice), which is useful for (hydrogen) fueling and machinery. More
Moon mission?
It's a nice thought, humanity spreading its wings and flying into the heavens, not too close to the sun, but it's not happening the way we're shown, Eric Dubay assures us.
John Lear confirmed on one of his final coasttocoastam.com appearances that it's not that NASA lies about this or that; it's ALL a lie, everything we're told. We have no idea about space, the secret space program, the more than 40 platforms out there.
Recyclable missions using the Space Shuttle had to take up supplies, lengthening mission, because things up there are much nearer than we're told. It does not take the time to reach them like we're told. But what is the moon or hologram blocking the moon? Will we ever know? Not from NASA, from which there is never a straight answer.
NASA space videos have been debunked already. Find them on YouTube, or if they have been sanitized from there, see bitchute.com and other video hosting sites that do not censor what the government asks them to ban.
Lucinda Cameron, The Independent, 2/22/24; CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, Guizhou province, China (Nat'l Museums Scotland/PA Wire)
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We remember you, O Dragon, so please spare us.
More details of a long-necked sea creature compared to a Chinese dragon have been revealed for the first time following new research.
The Dinocephalosaurus orientalis fossils were discovered in Guizhou province, southern China.
With 32 separate neck vertebrae, it had an extraordinarily long neck, researchers say, and its flippered limbs and well-preserved fish in its stomach region indicated it was very well adapted to an oceanic lifestyle.
Naga: sea creature, reptilian dinosaur
But they lived on to battle humans.
The reptile was originally identified in 2003, but the discovery of additional, more complete specimens since then has enabled an international team of scientists to depict the creature in full [which is particularly fitting to reveal at the beginning of the Year of the Dragon].
Nick Fraser, keeper of natural sciences at National Museums Scotland, was one of those involved. He said:
Long neck easy to support in water, chasing fish
“This discovery allows us to see this remarkable long-necked animal in full for the very first time. “It is yet one more example of the weird and wonderful world of the Triassic that continues to baffle palaeontologists. “We are certain that it will capture imaginations across the globe due to its striking appearance, reminiscent of the long and snake-like mythical Chinese dragon.” More:
It's all about brain size, human scientists declared, until an animal with a larger brain-to-body-size ratio than humans was found. Still some humans argue that we are better because we invented cities, industrial pollution, war, and such things.
Interestingly, according to the great Douglas Adams, dolphins argue that they are smarter for exactly the same reason, that is, they didn't. But the blue bottlenoses aren't all angels.
How to hug a sea porcupine
They sometimes rape and murder (purposely kill) humans, drowning them during sexual assaults out of jealous rage or infuriated at their meddling when female divers are present. Ask divers and, if swimming with the dolphins in Hawaii, avoid the plucky teens with erections.
Dolphins make plans, hang out in gangs (pods), hunt, have feelings, communicate, do neat tricks, get depressed when enslaved, work for the military-industrial complex that exploits them for war.
Now, on today's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! (10/7/23), we come to find they get high on purpose on a psychedelic substance available to them in the sea. How many psychedelics could there be in the sea, Flipper?
Endogenous auto-intoxication on puff?
This harkens back to the thesis that we, modern humans (Homo sapien sapiens, because we're sapient, the future Homo spiritus) evolved from some pre-human primate who discovered and ingested entheogens. There's a name for this theory. Joe Rogan may have mentioned it, something like the High Monkey Conjecture (aka Stoned Ape Theory).
Well, be that as it may, pass the puffer on the left fin side. Dolphins have been observed doing "puff," street name TTX (tetrodotoxin) and "Sashimi" (Japanese Fugu,because it will "fug u up" and may even result in death, Thai pakapao or "Pow" because it packs a punch).
Dolphins carefully prepare papakao (provoking the balloon fish to release more protective poison the way Voodoo practitioners and some Satanists torment a chicken or other living being, even humans, before butchering and ritually consuming its blood to get high on the adrenaline, adrenochrome, and/or other stress-induced compounds).
They deliberately ingest it, and pass it around among themselves in a social activity much like a psychedelic circle among the shamans of the Americas in the Hollywood movie Altered States with William Hurt.
This is shocking because it may have been the genesis of their larger brains, a global view of the oceans, and protective behavior for humans in danger at sea, and empathy (as when they warn us of danger or head it off on our behalf).
Life, Universe and Everything
Moreover, a recent episode of This American Life or a similar NPR program spoke frankly of a few cases of human bestiality with dolphins, one female trainer who got carried away with her hands on a regular basis in the interest of hastening her research and care, she claimed, and another man in the wild who just liked to play and make bi-curious dolphins feel good.
We are as gods (celestial devas) to them, and like the gods did to us, sometimes things get carried away. It's a strange world...and it only seems to be getting stranger. Well, time to call our Bonobo buddies and see what they're up to this weekend.
I may look cuddly, but I'm no toy. So don't play with me and my flesh and blood.
Is it the Doctrine of Signatures: Who would ever guess one could trip on this trippy creature?
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(John Downer Productions) Bottlenose dolphins are filmed apparently getting high on toxic secretions from pufferfish. The puffers secrete a neurotoxin that in high doses can kill but in small doses seemingly has a psychedelic narcotic effect.
Clip from Programme 2 of Dolphins: Spy in the Podon BBC 1. Narrated by David Tennant. Music by Will Gregory. Series directed by John Downer. For more information about the program, visit website:
http://jdp.co.uk/programmes/dolphins-...
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These large, aquatic mammals belong to the order Sirenia [which is interesting because the Spanish word for "mermaid" is sirena], which also includes three species of dugongs. 
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