Bolas de piedra, Nazca Lines, Ramseys the Second & Ancient Salmon with Teeth.
Have you ever stumbled upon something unexpected that turned your everyday world upside down? Brett and Luke are here to guide you through such transformative tales. Our latest episode takes you from your familiar stomping grounds to the mystical giant stone spheres of Costa Rica, teasing out the secrets of these pre-Columbian enigmas. We'll speculate whether these symbols of bygone civilizations were crafted as mere status objects or if they harbor deeper cosmic meanings. Join us as we unearth the thrill of discovery that lies hidden in plain sight, turning the seemingly mundane into marvels of historical intrigue.
Imagine gazing at the vast expanse of Peru's desert, only to realize it's etched with immense geoglyphs visible from the heavens. That's where we take you next, pondering the precision of the Nazca Lines, without the aid of modern technology. Curiosities continue as we delve into the bizarre world of ancient salmon with sideways teeth, challenging every expectation of the natural world. This episode is a wild ride through past mysteries and natural curiosities, serving up a hearty reminder that adventure doesn't require a map—just a keen eye and a zest for the unknown.
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Bolas de piedra, Nazca Lines, Ramseys the Second & Ancient Salmon with Teeth.
Have you ever stumbled upon something unexpected that turned your everyday world upside down? Brett and Luke are here to guide you through such transformative tales. Our latest episode takes you from your familiar stomping grounds to the mystical giant stone spheres of Costa Rica, teasing out the secrets of these pre-Columbian enigmas. We'll speculate whether these symbols of bygone civilizations were crafted as mere status objects or if they harbor deeper cosmic meanings. Join us as we unearth the thrill of discovery that lies hidden in plain sight, turning the seemingly mundane into marvels of historical intrigue.
Imagine gazing at the vast expanse of Peru's desert, only to realize it's etched with immense geoglyphs visible from the heavens. That's where we take you next, pondering the precision of the Nazca Lines, without the aid of modern technology. Curiosities continue as we delve into the bizarre world of ancient salmon with sideways teeth, challenging every expectation of the natural world. This episode is a wild ride through past mysteries and natural curiosities, serving up a hearty reminder that adventure doesn't require a map—just a keen eye and a zest for the unknown.
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Sometimes I feel like we've missed the era of discovery, the mad rush of adventure to lay claim to historic artifacts and monuments that were lost in time. For the most part, that may be true, but there is still hope. New discoveries or new theories are blooming each and every day. So what are you waiting for? Join the adventure. Welcome to Atlas Overflow. My name is Brett and I'm joined by my trusty adventuring sidekick, luke. Hello, I really do have that feeling of if I were to see something weird or strange, I would just walk past it. I wouldn't feel that there's a chance of hey, this might be something new.
Speaker 2:What do you mean? A new discovery? I was looking out Really, yeah, if I see like a funny looking rock, I'm like that was totally a footprint of a dinosaur. No one has ever, no one has ever, ever seen this before.
Speaker 1:I mean sure, like you look for cool things when you're going to be checking rocks and stuff like that, but everything is like, oh, that's just the fossil of you know whatever. It's nothing like you've discovered the first thing.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, I was being facetious. There's no way, I've like seen something, even like a ruin, which I've seen like on hacks and stuff. Of course I've always been like someone else knows this is here. It's obviously nothing. Yeah, just like a rock, you know, like a funny brick layout. I've never been like that could be a ruin from the 17th century, whatever the hell.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was. Now that you say that we were, we were kind of inland hill. I think it was like a zaplan or something we were going to do. And on the walk up the hill there's a section of the hill that's a little bit cut away and there's shells in the hill, shells, shells. You're in the middle of, you know, inland, yeah, shells. So I was like whoa, guys, I mean shells, what the hell? And the hiker's like? Or the, the guy taking us up. He's like, oh yeah, back in, like x, y and z, the this actually used to be where the water level was. I was like what, this should be in the museum, what's the dang idea? And he was just so blasé about it. I'm like that was cool what is wrong with?
Speaker 2:we were like so many meters above sea level but it's like it's, it's that kind of thing.
Speaker 1:We were like, oh look, and the guy was like, nah, you know, don't you know that this is like what level used to?
Speaker 2:be here Also as a kid. Okay, we're not specifically talking about fossils here. No, not as a kid any kind of thing I saw, I was hell bent on it being a fossil. I was like this is so weird. Look at this rock. It everywhere and I could like find something cool and make a million bucks and sell it to some museum, yeah, but yeah, no, not quite, I mean, even though we do have.
Speaker 1:Uh, this really is turning into a fossil episode. One of my ones is really nice. There's a road, um you know, going to one of the towns close to us and they were doing massive roadworks you'll remember this and the roadworks were halted because they stumbled upon I don't know it wasn't a existing dinosaur, but it was basically. They found a ton of bones and fossils there, so they stopped.
Speaker 2:You know all the cars were like come on just get this thing done. They're like no, no, no, wait this is more important, all of the weird stuff that goes on in this country, like I always forget that, you know we had fossils of these sort of stuff too.
Speaker 1:There's some dinosaurs that only existed here.
Speaker 2:We're the cradle of mankind, exactly, and I'm just like. Everything is just lame and boring.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let's talk about a few things that are cool in other countries. So I'm going to start off by talking about the giant stone spheres in Costa Rica Cool so locally known as Bolas da Bladra or Las Bolas, which I prefer, which just means the balls.
Speaker 2:I'm going to refer to my junk like that from now on Las Bolas.
Speaker 1:So these are large spherical monuments found in the Diqui Delta of South of Southern Costa Rica. They were created by pre-Columbian civilization, with some of them dating back to as far as 600 AD. Most of these spheres were made from gabbro, a type of rock formed from magma, and these spheres vary in size, with some measuring just a few centimeters in diameter, while others are as large as two meters in diameter. So the majority of the spheres are located in the Stokke Delta, but some have been found scattered across the country. Does it seem like?
Speaker 2:they're man-made or 100% man-made? For what?
Speaker 1:purpose. Well, that's the thing. So there's about 300 of these scattered throughout the country, varying in size. So some say astronomical use, trying to recreate what they see in the stars and the ground. Some say possibly for symbolic or religious reasons. One was status symbols, so like suggesting that there might be territory or whatever Navigational aids. Yeah, that one sounds possible. When you get to the second large rock, turn left. If you hit the two centimeter rock, you've gone too far.
Speaker 2:But you'd think, then they could just put up a post. It sounds a lot easier than carving out this perfect sphere.
Speaker 1:I don't think it's a good theory. There really are better ways of doing it. I do think that it was possibly a mixture of religious and astronomical uses, trying to map out the stars on the ground, and be it what it is.
Speaker 2:Do you think it was one guy that just went around and made these?
Speaker 1:Well, one theory is that it was for artistic expression and that it was one person going around making these massive boulders, for the hell of it.
Speaker 2:I mean it could be. You get like these weird. I don't want to say autistic, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, where they're like really focused and dedicated.
Speaker 2:My goal in life is to make spheres that will cover the earth.
Speaker 1:Every time they see a boulder or rock, they're like it must be round. So what people say is that it probably served multiple functions, be it navigational, be it actual, symbolic or you know something for the stars. They probably had multiple things. There are still no real reasons behind it, but they're definitely man-made and they are super round.
Speaker 1:It's crazy on how accurate these guys very accurate, very very accurate I wonder almost how, like I can barely draw a perfect circle, I mean I can't draw a perfect circle with one swoop yeah, well, you would be insane if you did, yeah but I mean, there's no way I could carve a perfect no, but when you go to go, look at photos of these, it's actually actually so what they've actually done, which is quite cool, is, as they've built around the areas where these spheres are, they've incorporated them into design. So if you have a building next to it, they would then corner off that one big boulder and you would walk around and it would be part of the landscape around it's very, very cool and they're impressive.
Speaker 1:They really are impressive. That it's very, very cool and they're impressive, they really are impressive. That's why I think the artistic expression thing came in, because it's very impressive that they've done this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it could just be like they're kind of monuments.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Anyway, that is it, luke, give us a one. All right, so I've got a cool one. So you've got something from the past. I've got something from also the past, but it was discovered recently.
Speaker 1:But a nearer past.
Speaker 2:So I wanted to shoot you with some really recent discoveries. Shoot you, shoot him, shoot some ass, sure, whatever Bring him. On Discoveries, I'm talking the past few weeks here, oh wow. So there've actually been quite a lot of new discoveries lately. I'm not going to talk about all of them. They're mostly in the realm of space and microbiology, sure, but I found a really cool one and this is a brand new monument that was discovered. So I say brand new, but it's new to us. It's been around for at least 4,500 years, I like that you can still find those.
Speaker 1:Yeah me too. I mean you would think everything has been seen Exactly.
Speaker 2:There's so much out there, I know, go explore man. So archaeologists estimate, as I said, about 4,500 years ago. But humankind didn't know its existence until recently. So this monument was discovered by the INRAP, aka the French International Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research. Crazy, I'm going to call it the INRAP, that's a mouthful. So this monument is located in Marlines in Eastern France, and the in-wrap launched an excavation project into this monument. So to describe it, it's well, it's odd. It's a very low wall structure. I think I'll tell you why I think so, but essentially it's a walled in circle that's about 11 meters in diameter, okay, and on sort of the side of it, one side of it, it's kind of got an eight meter long horseshoe shaped structure, all right, and the other side is another horseshoe shaped structure. It's a mouth twister, tongue twister.
Speaker 1:Sorry, but it's segmented okay I'm picturing a bunny in my head. Well, you don't have to picture, I've got a picture for you, okay, not a bunny. Yeah, it's weird. It is weird. It almost looks like that one pokemon with the magnets on you then, but the magnets oh yeah, the magnets are facing, yeah, yeah so a round circle with you know those? Yeah, classic horseshoe magnet looking things facing inwards uh, so yeah.
Speaker 2:So this photo I've got, and the only photo I can find is an aerial shot, so it's kind of hard to tell how high these walls are. All right, I mean it looks like walls.
Speaker 1:To me they do look like walls. They don't look like anything that would be dug in the ground.
Speaker 2:So there's a lot of trenches and wells in the space as well, but to me this looks like it goes up. Show me the photo again. And this is the trick of the mind, and it's and it's a trench, because I really there was very, not very much information. This is so new that there's not a lot of information out there. It almost looks like a triangular wall, exactly that it peaks at the top. It doesn't seem very tall though, no, but then again it's aerial. It's hard to tell, but if that's, if that bush is a point of reference, it doesn't look like it's that big.
Speaker 1:But why would the one horseshoe be dotted almost? I don't know this is so interesting.
Speaker 2:So, according to the archaeologists that found it, this is a one of a kind. Yes, there's no. So they actually have a quote from one of them here. They say that this type of monument seems unprecedented and certainly no comparison has been made, and what they're saying here is that they've seen nothing like this monument before, and it's only one of its size shape and layout ever to exist, um, but yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:So back to the actual structure itself. Um, what is the most cool thing about it is what else was discovered at the site, not the site itself. Oh, so it turns out that it may have been some sort of weapons cache, which immediately makes me think of a cool point of interest from a video game. So at the site, in various ditches and wells, they recovered artifacts and weapons such as arrowheads, protective armbands, flint lighters, daggers, and even more interesting is that they're not from the same period of time what? Not at all. So this space has definitely been used and occupied many times by many different people throughout the ages. So the oldest artifacts that were found here relate to the Belbeaker civilization, which thrived around 4,500 years ago, which is why we know it's at least at all Okay.
Speaker 2:As I said, the archaeologists said nothing else comes close to what this may have been, the leading theory, which doesn't quite make sense to me. But so the leading theory is that it may be related to some sort of burial ritual in some way. Okay, um, especially because its location is actually near some ancient necropolises nearby, which is like mass graveyard. Yeah, yeah, um, but why that's weird to me is why there's so many weapons and stuff here.
Speaker 1:it doesn't make any sense. And what also doesn't make sense to me is okay. So for those picturing at home the circle in the middle, you have the one full horseshoe on the right hand side and on the other side you have a dotted horseshoe. Looking, yeah, between the circle and the solid horseshoe, there's no, there's no way of entry. No, it's closed off. The circle is a closed circle. The circle is closed and the horseshoe is closed, except for the dotted one on the left, which is only accessible to it.
Speaker 2:So the problem is, we don't really other than knowing it's 11 meters in diameter.
Speaker 1:We don't know sense of height.
Speaker 2:No, no, I agree. Could this be like a place where people would sit and watch people fight, like a stadium thing?
Speaker 1:Sure, but. But. But why? No, it's, it's. Why would you have the? And then the outer circle? Is that like the kiddie corner, where they can't watch in the middle? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Who knows man, it's weird. Look, as I said, this is super new.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I'm sure that some guys are going to look into.
Speaker 2:We don't know right now. All we know is this is cool, it is very cool.
Speaker 1:I really, really think that's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's the monument Brett.
Speaker 1:Awesome. Okay, so let's go back to something old, something barred, and something blue, Something similar in line with yours, except this time, instead of building up, we're going to build down.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to talk about the Nazca Lines, I mean a fairly popular thing amongst people. I think anyone who's done a little bit of digging into these kinds of things would have found it or have seen it somewhere. Uh, some of you might've seen it without even knowing you've seen it. I'll get into it. So the Nazca lines are enormous shapes found in Peru, and I mean enormous, I mean can only be seen from aerials.
Speaker 2:Outer space Outer space type thing.
Speaker 1:So they were first spotted by commercial aircrafts in the 1920s and 30s. So these lines consist of hundreds of geometric lines and these really intricate depictions of animals and plants and imaginary figures Some of them I don't even know what they are, which is kind of cool, because maybe that means they had creatures that we didn't exactly they were thinking of something or had seen something, but who knows?
Speaker 1:so these were created over 2 000 years ago by the pre-inka nazca culture. The nazca people made these designs by removing the red surface pebbles to reveal the latter earth below in patterns of their choosing. What's so amazing about this is how the hell did they know what they were doing? Because they were so big. You can only see them from space or from being in the air. So there were theories back in the day that the Nazca people had invented hot air balloons by stitching together you know different animal skins or leathers and then lighting fires underneath them to let them go up. So they could, you know, pinpoint a few markers. I mean how?
Speaker 1:else would they have done it with some really good planning and measurements, maybe, but someone someone had a suggestion of you know, in some of the areas where they were there were mountains nearby that you could stand on the hillsides of the mountains and look and you'd get a very skewed perception of it but, you'd be able to see decently enough.
Speaker 2:But also and I might be wrong on this, but the geography of the land right. They'd have to make concessions for certain bumps and whatever, so that it would still look flat and straight when you're I don't know in the air looking down, when you see these things from space, they are dead straight lines, like dead, dead straight lines.
Speaker 1:So I've got it's not the exact picture, but it's, you know a little explanation of. Well, I mean, you had it. It is now gone.
Speaker 2:My favorite one is still the spider.
Speaker 1:the spot is awesome man, so they've tried to put. So, basically, the picture that I'm showing luke now is throughout the area, out of kind of up into the mountains and all that it's. It shows where the straight lines go and then how they each interact.
Speaker 2:Together with the little I had no idea they were all so close together. Yes, they were in one region.
Speaker 1:Nor did I know there were so many yeah, there's monkeys, there's hummingbirds, there's spiders, there's things that I have never seen before. It looks like pokemon. They do, actually.
Speaker 2:That's actually a very good point oh man, so the top one there's clearly on our mountain range. The level, the pitch is quite different, and yet from the aerial view it looks straight. It looks straight, yeah.
Speaker 1:It's mad. They did a fantastic job at keeping these things perfectly straight, and we don't know if there was other technology at the time that allowed them to track lines as straight as they did using stars or whatever they needed to do. I mean, we know from Egyptian era that they did have some pretty incredible tools, like, I mean, what would they call it? A plumber's line? Yeah, but at the size that these are, it makes it so much more impressive Builder's line.
Speaker 2:I think you get a plumber. Plumber's line is the stuff you put on a on a pipe to keep it sealed.
Speaker 1:That's plumber's tape? No, no, I'm plumber's line. It's called a plumb line, or?
Speaker 2:whatever it's a weight. Yeah, sorry, plumb line.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So some of the theories around this is obviously again a ritual or religious practices. So archeologists believe that the Nazca lines served, you know, purposes for ceremonies or processions, or even as offerings to the gods. These lines may have also been paths for ceremonial walks or processions, meant to communicate with the gods in some sort of ritual or something like that that makes sense.
Speaker 2:So I don't like how every one of these always leans towards earth for ceremonial purposes. Yes, like it seems like such a gimme answer, you know, but the fact that you can see these from so high up means it actually kind of makes sense that this is to show the gods, correct? Obviously they believed up above watching down, yeah, uh like, look what we've making you this artwork for you to enjoy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, kind of thing there there's another kind of off theory from that one, which is communication with the ancestors. Okay, and it's the lance kind of being put in a way where they could communicate with their ancestors again through rituals or whatever, but clearly the symbols were made to be seen from the sky.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean definitely.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it makes sense. Another one was pilgrimage routes. So you know, they said maybe along those routes that that would be a line that they would walk and then along the line they would.
Speaker 2:But then it seems so extra to do all the feathers and the tails and the spirals Correct.
Speaker 1:So it does. If you think of how many there are, and if you look at cultures like China, where they've got the year of the dragon, the year of the dog, the year of the monkey and you've got even in our culture, you've got the symbols of astrology, where you give them, like we have Leo and Scorpio and Pisces yeah, it's possible that they had similar things. And constellations, constellations great. Yeah, so they had similar ideologies when it comes to constellations and at that point in time, it would have been perfectly under here. Okay, they'll do that. Yeah, here, they'll do here, do that. I mean, look at some things that you know we do in the western culture. That's wow. How would you do that?
Speaker 1:like, massive statues or um. In in dubai they've got the the palm tree, obviously creating more land and all that. Yeah, but in a hundred to two thousand years time, when all those buildings are like degraded to nothing or whatever and the water's overflowing, the water's gonna drain again, they're like, wow, what was this?
Speaker 2:they were communicating to the stars. This must have been for ceremonial purposes. Meanwhile, we just wanted a cool place to live.
Speaker 1:It was really religious ceremonial purposes. So, yeah, I mean, there's no exact reasoning or any like solid proof for what they are. Um, so at the moment they're just, they're just cool things that exist, yeah, and their discoveries. And I think it must have been cool, because a person would have walked past this area a million times and just been like, oh there's this random line drawn in the ground until, like you know, we get to a point where airplanes are a thing and you've got pilots flying.
Speaker 2:Imagine the first guy that saw them. He must, must be like holy shit. What is this? Yeah, who did this?
Speaker 1:Radio is like there's some pretty incredible things, captain.
Speaker 2:Captain, this is your captain speaking. We have some strange lines underneath us. Check.
Speaker 1:Like, what lines? There's a monkey? So yeah, that does the Nazca lines. And this is one of those things where I really really wish there was some sort of reasoning behind it, some sort of you know hieroglyph on the wall that says this is why we did this Do we know what year about these were?
Speaker 2:You might've said so already. I feel hard to tell because it's not like it was building.
Speaker 1:They say that they were created over 2000 years ago.
Speaker 2:So this would have been very, very early, I mean like the year 24 bc type thing. Yeah, yeah, so I've got another cool archaeological discovery that happened recently in egypt. Uh, so there's a chance. You've heard of this statue before, right? So basically, in 1930, half of a statue was found by a german archaeologist named gunther ruder, and it is believed to depict the egyptian pharaoh ramses ii. Okay, but its top half was never found. Oh, so it was kind of waist down, sure, right at the back of the statue are hieroglyphs though that state various kingly titles that related to ramses ii. So that's how they sort of presumed it was of him, you know um, and I mean, this dude was quite a boss dog.
Speaker 2:It's not like he didn't have many statues around. This one was quite. It was quite large. It's about seven meters tall, just the bottom torso. No, so they presumed the base in proportion um. I think the bottom half was 3.8 meters or something like that.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's still taller than a person.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, it's a big statue. Yeah, yeah, so well, the top half was finally found 94 years later oh, the other day, in fact. So it was discovered near the ancient city of Hermopolis, which is about 250 kilometers outside of Cairo. Right, and I thought it was pretty cool. I mean, it's too bad. The original guy that found the bottom half has obviously passed away. Yeah, I mean, he didn't get the closure which?
Speaker 1:kind of sucks.
Speaker 2:Of course, yeah, but yeah, they discovered the whole top half of a statue which has been missing for many, many years. They've always searched for it and they finally found it.
Speaker 1:I was just like for those Egyptian gods who somehow, through magic, are listening to this. Thank you for giving us hieroglyphs and basically drawing out what all of your weird stuff means.
Speaker 2:to a certain extent, they get very like like explainable, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:But it's, it's so. Egypt has always fascinated me because it is such a culturally rich place that when you go to it now, you don't see that. No, not at all, because you've literally got Cairo right up against, you've got the river Nile next to you and you've got these pyramids and there's just so much happening there, yeah. But then they're like, okay, well, you look at the pyramids and to the left is a KFC and everyone's like, yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 2:Like you always think it's a faraway desert, you've got to trek to it's right there yeah. The city is built so close to it now it's almost kind of like solo punk. Have you ever heard of that terminology? Solo punk, solo punk? Oh, okay, okay. So it's like cyberpunk, sure, but very kind of based on renewable energies and stuff which I suppose is not like this at all. But you see a lot of like structures incorporated into modern life.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, yes.
Speaker 2:Anyway, weird, tangent, sure, okay, whatever, I've got a bonus fact for you. Okay, cool. So this is a fossil I mentioned earlier. All right, so I'm talking about salmon, the fish, all right. So we know salmon, we love salmon, whether it's on your eggs benny in the morning, you know, or your your sushi in the evening, we all love it, except for you most people love it okay salmon dude.
Speaker 2:Whatever, you're weird. So we also know that salmon are some of the weirdest fish. They go through the most dramatic changes throughout their sort of life cycle. What's up with them swimming upstream Like? Just stop that I know they go through some crazy physiological changes. They look like normal fish. They get this weird hump and then their colors change. They get a green face, a red body, all kinds of weird stuff, but they get pretty large, huge.
Speaker 1:But not as huge as the ancient salmon of yesteryear.
Speaker 2:I love how just some of the prehistoric dinosaurs are just the same as what we have now, but so much bigger with extra teeth, and that's exactly what happened here.
Speaker 2:Okay, so this, uh, the largest known prehistoric species of salmon is called the oncorhynchus rostrosus, which is a pacific salmon. So it's a saltwater variation of salmon, all right, and it could reach up to 2.7 meters. What A salmon. That's taller than me. That's monstrous. All right, crazy. That's a lot of nigiri, that's what I'm saying. All right, but this isn't what's new. What is new is a discovery that the salmon's teeth of this particular species used to grow out sideways like a warthogs. Huh, yeah, they found it in some fossils now. So these salmon had warthog tusks like, yeah, exactly like that we've got, and they don't might curve sure, sure, but out sideways which is crazy cool.
Speaker 2:So we always knew I said we scientists always knew that they had longer teeth because they found fossils and whatever, but it was always presumed that they went downwards like a saber-toothed tiger. Correct, yeah, which is quite funny, because I can't remember if it was a cartoon or what, but they were depicting all prehistoric variations of animals with the same thing, just with long teeth on the side. And so I'm just seeing a salmon with these long saber-toothed teeth.
Speaker 1:That's how you know it's prehistoric, you know, because there's actually a fish that's called quite aptly the thing, it's the vampire fish and it's also in one of these amazonian type rivers yeah but the teeth go into sockets on the lower jaw. It's incredible.
Speaker 2:So this would jut out well, even even the angler fish. It's such big teeth it can't ever close its mouth, that's true, yeah, it's almost like this constant grin. Yeah, it's weird, but anyway. So a scientific sort of study was done on the fossils they found and, yeah, the conclusion was that simply no, we were wrong the whole time. The salmon's teeth grow sideways. That's incredible. There's a cool fossil picture online if you want to look at it. But yeah, it's weird, it's cool. I thought it was pretty rad and that's your bonus fact.
Speaker 1:Thank you, that was actually great. Uh, I do enjoy how fish always seem to just be the, the combination of all things, weird. I mean. As soon as you said that, I thought, okay, well, you know, like you get one of those saw like a sawtooth, whatever fish, and it's got the the longer nose and it has little teeth on the end of the nose the saw shock, saw shock or something like that, and we're like that's weird, you know it's very strange, but are you imagining?
Speaker 2:it looks like a chainsaw. It looks like a chainsaw in the front of it.
Speaker 1:Now you're thinking like a normal salmon, that you know, has these little jutty outy things I was thinking like you're talking about, like a sturgeon or something.
Speaker 2:It's very weird that you get, kind of within the same realm of fish, so many variations. Oh, it's crazy. Okay, this isn't a fish, I suppose. But you want something with tentacles? Yeah, you got it down there. You want something with stinging bobs?
Speaker 1:It's there At the end of the day. There there's still, there's still so much, and and even if it is things that are, you know that they're old, they, they, they've died years ago. They don't exist anymore. Their, their fossils are still out there. They're still, like these little intricate, hidden details that nobody, nobody knows about but the point is it's discoveries in everything, of course, on this earth that we haven't seen.
Speaker 2:You know the nazca lines. What the heck is that, this weirdca Lines? What the heck is that? This weird monument in France? What the heck is that? They're still undiscovered animals, or even the ones that we knew existed yeah, case in point, the salmon. But we learned something new about them, correct? There's so much to discover out there.
Speaker 1:And it's religious ceremonies.
Speaker 1:Oh man, but that is it for us this week. We hope you guys enjoyed it. It was a fun little journey down some new discoveries, some old discoveries and some things that have been lost for time and are now found. So if you enjoyed that, we'll see you guys again next week on Creepy Creek and the week after back at Atlas Overflow. But until then, you can catch us on all major social media platforms at our topic podcast X, instagram, youtube, facebook. You can get us on our website, ourtopicpodcastcom, or email us. Community at ourtopicpodcastcom.
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