Chapter 1490 Birds 100 million years ago
A thick stack of documents was placed on the table in front of Han Xuan. He didn't look at these first, but stood up and turned around, looking up at the display stand behind him. .
The items placed on this shelf are quite unique and have successfully attracted his attention. In recent years, it has been popular to decorate offices with prehistoric relics. Rare fossils and amber are all popular collectibles on the market, and their prices have increased several times in a row.
Two years ago, I could buy a complete Tyrannosaurus Rex bone fossil for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but now I can't even buy a leg. The reason for these changes is probably due to the emergence of the science fiction movie "Jurassic Park", which successfully allowed the magical species that had disappeared for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years to come back into the sight of many people.
Last year, "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" was released, which once again caused a dinosaur craze. Essential speculators hoarded a batch of high-quality fossils at low prices, and then successfully made the market popular at a special auction at a sky-high price. This principle applies to the United States.
Before this, the value of prehistoric collectibles was far underestimated, and they actually had fewer existing items than antiques, but because there were not many people who liked such items and were niche collectibles, their value has never increased.
The items on the shelf in front of me were all collected by the antique agent sold to Han Xuan's Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils at that time. They were all high-quality products without exception and the price was not low.
Among them is a very complete and beautiful ammonite fossil, which is quite well preserved, and has a history of about 300 million years. This is an extinct marine invertebrate creature, just like the modern nautilus, with a diameter of 140 centimeters, which is quite rare, living between the Devonian (400 million years) and the White Age (65 million years).
Next to it, the trilobite fossil, which is more than 60 centimeters long, is even older. Like an ammonite fossil, it can also represent the unknown ancient era.
Over the long years, they have evolved into many different species. To this day, we can still see the shadow of trilobites 500 million or 600 million years ago from certain species of the horseshoe crab or the sausage. The short history of human beings seems too trivial compared to them.
Darwin once made a speculation that random mutations of organisms are the material basis for biological evolution. The scientific community has now formed a basic consensus that perhaps all organisms on earth have one or several common ancestors.
Many species that have disappeared from the earth have not actually become extinct, but have become other things, such as various birds and chickens that people often eat, may have evolved from tens of millions of dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago.
This conjecture is based on the similarity of the skeleton structure characteristics of dinosaurs and birds, and the DNA sequences of dinosaurs and birds are also very similar, with a fit of 80%. This provides a sufficient theoretical basis for proving that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds.
Archaeologists have also discovered fossils of the "Archaembius" that look like birds, which belong to a hairy dinosaur.
This speculation is more obvious in front of Han Xuan's eyes, because he reached out to pick up a piece of amber and accidentally discovered that there was an ancient chick sealed inside.
To be precise, there are only bird claws, some bones and some feather-like objects in the amber. Amber is probably as big as Han Xuan's fist. Through imagination, we can imagine the struggle state when a six-centimeter chick was sealed inside countless years ago.
This surprised him a little and asked Trump: "How many years ago is this amber from?
It seems a bit history, there are many insects sealed in amber, I have never heard of any birds sealed by amber, except for modern artificial decorations.”
Trump's company is here, and his home is also on the roof. Han Xuan once went to his house as a passerby. He originally specialized in real estate business, so he gave him the decoration work.
"I remember that after the workers installed them, they still left a small notebook for introducing the materials. The things were a bit valuable. When I sent someone to clean up, I kept people watching. Usually no one could come in on this floor.
Wait, I'll ask the secretary to help find..."
Before his secretary came, Han Xuan found the booklet on the table first.
There are detailed introductions including furniture, and those fossils and the like are more accurate to the place of production and the prices are marked.
The velociraptor skull, triceratops, wind god winged dragon skull, etc., are all in existence, and you can buy it with some energy and money. This unique amber is a unique existence, and there is not necessarily a second in the world.
After reading the introduction in the information, I learned that this amber was produced in Myanmar and was circulated in the market as ordinary amber. Later, it was discovered by a tourist with a good taste and brought back to the United States for 9,000 US dollars. The store owner had more vision and finally sold it to Han Xuan through an intermediary for 700,000 US dollars.
According to the identification, it has a history of 99 million years. Considering the error, it is also very likely to have a history of over 100 million years, and the degree of cherishing is far beyond Han Xuan's expectations.
Amber provides humans with unparalleled advantages in exploring the scenes of that year, but the size of the objects it can wrap is limited, so ancient amber wrapped in vertebrates is extremely rare and is much higher than the snail amber that Han Xuan bought before.
He took it, looked through and played with it, and found it very interesting. He handed the amber to Anya and said, "This thing is amazing. Paleontologists will go crazy when they encounter it. I have never heard of it. Where are the remains of birds tens of millions of years ago preserved? It can bring great help to the study of ancient birds.
If several experts in this field are invited to come, with current technological level, they might be able to restore the bird's former appearance through clues in amber."
Anya didn't understand these, but it felt amazing to see the claws of the bird inside.
Time has wiped out too many things, and some people even believe that not only human civilization appears on the earth, but dinosaurs may also have wisdom and civilization.
It was from this aspect that a Hollywood screenwriter imagined that he wrote the script of the TV series "Dinosaur Empire". Dimen Pictures has confirmed that it will invest money to shoot. The plot contains a large number of special effects, and is expected to invest up to 100 million US dollars. The Industrial Light and Magic Special Effects Company will be responsible for post-production.
The general managers of New York from each branch received a notice from Secretary Dawson early and rushed here to wait for the arrival of the little boss. Now they entered this office one after another and asked Han Xuan, Anya, and Trump to take care of him.
Through the side glass, you can see some of the city scenery in the Lower City and the towering spiral buildings in the distance. The Trump Tower has briefly become the tallest building in the world in history.
Han Xuan took the black tea that the company assistant helped make, smiled and said thank you, and then said, "Sit all, it's the first time many people meet, but I've seen your files and my personal abilities are pretty good.
Chapter completed!