ʻO ka ʻike ʻana i ka mea kahiko loa o nā hale hale

Na Wendy Williams
Ka uhi o ka 5th International Deep Sea Coral Symposium, Amsterdam

Na Heinrich Harder (1858-1935) (The Wonderful Paleo Art of Heinrich Harder)

AMSTERDAM, NL, ʻApelila 3, 2012 — Ma kahi o 65 miliona mau makahiki i hala aku nei, ua hāʻule ka meteor i ke kai ma waho o ke kahakai o ka moku ʻo Yucatan Peninsula i kēia manawa. Ua ʻike mākou e pili ana i kēia hanana no ka mea ua hoʻokumu ka hui ʻana i kahi pahū o ka ikehu i waiho i lalo o ka honua tattle-tale layer o iridium.

Ma hope o ka hoʻokuʻi ʻana, ua pau nā dinosaur a pau (koe naʻe nā manu). I loko o ke kai, ua make nā ʻAmona nui, e like me ka nui o nā mea ʻaihue nui e like me nā plesiosaurs nui loa. Ma kahi o 80 a 90 ka nui o nā ʻano kai i pau i ka pau.

Akā inā he honua make ka honua ma hope o ka hui ʻana - he honua ia o ka manawa kūpono.

He mau miliona makahiki wale nō ma hope mai, ma ka papakū hohonu o ke kūlanakauhale ʻo Faxe, Denmark (he manawa mehana loa ia ma ka honua a ʻoi aku ka kiʻekiʻe o ka ʻilikai), ua hoʻokumu ʻia kekahi mau ʻākoʻakoʻa kūikawā. Hoʻomaka lākou i ke kūkulu ʻana i nā puʻu i ulu ākea a kiʻekiʻe i kēlā me kēia millennium e hala ana, a lilo i ko mākou ʻano noʻonoʻo hou, nā hale hoʻokipa nani e hoʻokipa i nā ʻano ola kai āpau.

Ua lilo nā puʻu i wahi ʻohi. Ua hui pū ʻia nā ʻākoʻakoʻa ʻē aʻe me nā ʻano ʻano kai ʻē aʻe. Dendrophylia candelabrum i hōʻike maikaʻi ʻia ma ke ʻano he kiʻi hoʻolālā. I ka manawa i anuanu hou ai ka honua a hāʻule ka ʻili o ke kai a ua waiho ʻia kēia mau hale noho koʻa, kēia mau kūlanakauhale Cenozoic Co-Op mua, i kiʻekiʻe a maloʻo, ʻoi aku ma mua o 500 mau ʻano kai like ʻole i hoʻokumu iā lākou iho ma ʻaneʻi.

Hoʻomaka i mua i kā mākou 21st Century. Ua hoʻokumu ʻia ka lua hana ʻoihana lōʻihi i "ka lua nui loa i hana ʻia ma Denmark," e like me ka mea noiʻi Denemaka ʻo Bodil Wesenberg Lauridsen o ke Kulanui o Copenhagen, nāna i kamaʻilio i kahi hui o nā mea noiʻi koʻa wai anuanu i ʻākoakoa ma Amsterdam i kēia pule.

I ka hoʻomaka ʻana o nā kānaka ʻepekema e aʻo i kēia "puka" a me nā hale ʻāina ʻē aʻe e pili ana, ua ʻike lākou ʻo kēia mau puʻu koʻa kahiko, mai 63 miliona mau makahiki, ʻo ia ka mea kahiko loa i ʻike ʻia a hiki paha ke hōʻailona i ka pae radiation mua o kahi ʻano kaiaola hou.

ʻO nā ʻano mea i ʻike ʻia e nā ʻepekema i loko o ka "apartment complex" kahiko a hiki i kēia lā, ʻaʻole i ʻike ʻia ka hapa nui.

Eia kekahi, ua haʻi aku ka ʻepekema Denemaka i kāna poʻe hālāwai, he nui nā mōʻalihaku ʻē aʻe i loko o nā puʻu, e kali ana e ʻike ʻia. Ma kekahi mau wahi, ʻaʻole maikaʻi ka mālama ʻana i nā puʻu, akā ʻo nā ʻāpana ʻē aʻe o nā puʻu ke hōʻike nei i nā wahi noiʻi nui.

Ke ʻimi nei kekahi poʻe paleontologists i kahi papahana?