Not all discoveries can be trusted.
Sometimes people make discoveries that radically change the view of the world. But it happens that discoveries which seem to be something sensational, in fact, are pure fiction. Rather, it is the most ordinary things because of the peculiarities of human perception was considered as something extraordinary. “Ten” the most amusing errors in this review.
1. The Italians, who were regarded as Neanderthals
In 1980, a group of archaeologists found several fragments of bones in the caves of San Bernardino in Italy. The age of the rocks in which it was discovered the remains were estimated to be about 28 000 – 59 000 years. This led them to conclude that the bones belonged to Neanderthals.Nevertheless, a reanalysis conducted by Stefano of Benali in 2013, showed that the initial conclusions were incorrect.
With the help of new high-tech tools, Benazzi found that the mysterious bone fragments belonged to people, not Neanderthals, or to be more precise, the medieval Italians. Re-analysis of the Benazzi has also adjusted the age of the bones: they were dated to 1420 – 1480 years.
2. Mangalica: hybrid sheep and pigs
In 2010, the Internet is widely dispersed photos of hybrid sheep and pigs. The creature was covered with hair, but he had a snout and pig’s head. Photos look so convincing that many people thought: this animal is the product of genetic modification. Others said that the photo is made using Photoshop.
It was later discovered that the animal was not genetically engineered or the result of a forgery. The creature shown in the picture, is a breed of hairy pig called “mangalitsa”, which are bred in the mountains of Hungary and Austria.
3. Lost Greek city
When a group of sharks seen beneath the water something that looked like hard surface flooring, colonnades and courtyards, the swimmers thought that he found the ruins of the ancient Greek city. Unfortunately, they were wrong. In a joint study conducted by the University of Athens and the University of East Anglia, revealed that these structures found in the Greek Zakynthos, in fact a natural geological formation.
The researchers used x-rays, methods of stable isotopes and microscopy for studying the texture and content of underwater structures. In the end, it was found that these formations were created in the process of natural geological phenomena that occurred five million years ago. Another important factor that led them to the conclusion that the formations were not man-made, was no other signs of life (for example, utensils or amphorae).
4. The sculpture, which took over the hybrid of man and dog
In 2009, the results of a study supposedly published by Israeli scientists, have become “viral” on the Internet. In the pictures you can see the “half woman, half dog feeding its puppies. The photo was so convincing that he managed to fool a lot of people, making them believe that scientists have gone too far with their “God games”.
This could be a great discovery, but much of the hybrid of man and dog really was just a sculpture, which was created by the artist Piccinini for the first time in 2003.
5. Naked raccoon or Chupacabra
In 2014, a couple from Texas found himself on a farm animal similar to a Chupacabra, a mythical monster, which was believed to be draining the blood from chickens and goats. However, the “Ratcliffe Chupacabra” (as he called it animal) was not the anatomical features of the mouth that enable it to suck blood. In fact, this animal being in captivity in a cage, eating corn and food for the cats. Experts have suggested that the couple from Texas caught a raccoon suffering from sarcoptic mange, a skin disease that causes hair loss in animals.
6. Paw VS American black bear foot Bigfoot
In 2013, children from Lakeville, Massachusetts found what looks like a decomposing human leg. They immediately called the police, who suggested that this stop – the remains of a murder victim. Despite this, locals still believe that the foot belonged to a Yeti, better known as Bigfoot.
With the help is judicial-medical examination it was established that the severed paw actually belonged not to Bigfoot and not the victim of a maniac, and black bear (baribal). Where did the paw come from in Lakeville, and has remained a mystery.
7. Venus VS UFO
Many natural objects or phenomena have been mistaken for UFOs. One of these objects is the planet Venus. Many people called in service of rescue, thinking that he saw an alien spacecraft, although in fact it was the second planet from the Sun.
There is a simple explanation why a lot of people mistook Venus for a UFO: it is very bright. It is the brightest planet in the Solar system, which darkens the night sky, even the brightest star, Sirius. The clouds of Venus to function as a mirror, reflecting almost all sunlight from the planet, so it is so bright and hot.
8. Launch military rockets
In 2015 in California was spotted a mysterious bright light. It was so intense that he noticed even in Nevada and Arizona. People who didn’t know what it was that made the glow for the alien space ship.However, it was much simpler explanation: the US Navy issued a statement saying it was a training missile fired from the USS Kentucky, a ballistic missile submarine off the coast of southern California.
9. Clam, who found the human remains
Man walking in 2015 with my dog on the beach in Darwin, Australia, stumbled upon what he took to be a severed human finger. He immediately reported the incident to the local police, fearing that he may have found the remains of a murder victim. Police handed “cut off finger” in the examination division, where he discovered that it was not a finger, and an unusual clam. The mystery remains that the clams of a similar kind are found only in the Northern hemisphere.
10. Rock, which seemed the body of Natalie Holloway
In 2010, a couple from Pennsylvania went on vacation to Aruba. Like any normal tourists, they photographed everything. When the couple returned to the United States, they noticed something strange on one of the photos: human skeleton, covered with water near the shore.
Tourists immediately called the police, thinking that they found the remains of Natalie Holloway, which is the most famous man missing in the history of Aruba. Natalie disappeared may 30, 2005 while on vacation in this Caribbean country. After studying the photos, the experts came to the conclusion that it was not human skeleton, but rather a bizarre formation of the rocks.
