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What made Jin San excited was that there were still some cells left on the rhinoceros horn. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Jin San was able to determine that the rhinoceros horn inside the elephant's skull had not become a fossil, but for some unknown reason, it had been successfully preserved.

But Jin San doesn't care about this, as long as there are cells, it is possible to clone this ancient giant rhino, which is much simpler than allowing a modern rhinoceros to evolve into a giant rhino.

Now there are no wild rhinos in China, only raised rhinos.

Ancient China is the homeland of rhinoceros, especially in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there are a large number of rhinoceros in the North China Plain, until the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, there are three kinds of Asian rhinoceros living in the vast places of southern China, namely the big one-horned rhinoceros, the small one-horned rhinoceros, and the Asian two-horned rhinoceros.

The rhinoceros is a herbivorous animal, which has no attack power, and because the single horn on its top can be used in medicine, it dies quite a bit of "Bi Huai's sin".

The Chinese rhinoceros is generally meters long, meters high, and weighs 1 ton, but the giant rhinoceros that Jin San saw with his ability is known to be four meters tall and more than eight meters long.

It has a number of distinctive physical features, such as an unusually thick body, short column-like limbs, a large head, a thick skin like armor, a single or double horn on the snout, and a pair of small eyes born on either side of the head.

Although they are large and ugly, they are very timid, and if they are not in a hurry, the first thing they think of when they encounter danger is to run, not to resist.

However, they are ferocious when wounded or in trouble, and often blindly charge at their enemies. Stab the opponent with the horns of the head.

Despite their bulky size, they are still able to walk or run at a fairly fast pace. It can reach about 45 kilometers per hour in short distances.

Such a big guy, charge. That momentum, even a modern tank weighing 80 tons, is not as imposing as it looks.

Jin San used his ability to look at the giant rhino living on the ancient land, and felt that it was a pity that such a species had disappeared from this land with the evolution of history.

Thinking of this, Jin San could only smile bitterly. Not to mention such a large giant rhinoceros, even small rhinoceros, which are more than one meter tall, have long been extinct in China.

People regard rhinoceros horn as a precious medicinal material, and at the same time, it is used to carve into various beautiful handicrafts like ivory, and people also use rhinoceros skin and blood into medicine, and there are records of rhinoceros horn in the Song Dynasty.

Due to the rarity of rhinos, they are becoming more and more precious.

In the Qing Dynasty, officials in the southern provinces wanted to make rhinoceros horn the private property of the government. A proclamation was issued that people were not allowed to hunt rhinos indiscriminately, and only official hunting was allowed.

In this way, the rhinoceros was killed indiscriminately by officers and soldiers. They killed the rhinoceros, sawed off the horns on the spot, and then paid most of the tribute to their superiors and the emperor. Pave the way for your future promotion and wealth.

At that time, a maximum of 1,000 officers and soldiers were dispatched, and dozens of rhinoceros could be caught at a time. At that time, some people also poached rhinoceros in large quantities in order to make a fortune.

Such a frenzied hunt came to the beginning of the 20th century AD. There are very few rhinos left in China.

At this time, rhino horn was even more precious, but according to official information at that time, from 1900 to 1910, in just 10 years, there were more than 300 rhino horns paid tribute by the government and the people, not including those smuggled abroad! After that, rhinos are rarely caught.

The rhinoceros in the country finally became extinct in 1920.

I don't know when, Hou Liang appeared behind Jin San, although he didn't have any special abilities, he could see the picture on the DV in Jin San's hand, and the forest and beast herd displayed on it made Hou Liang look inexplicably excited.

Jin San said: "What do those people in Xinwen Town want?" ”

"They want a good project, a good project that will make their whole town rich." Hou Liang's eyes are always nailed to the DV in Jin San's hand.

"Then let's build an Asian rhino theme park!" Jin San didn't think about it.

"Asian rhino? Theme parks? It's not easy to do, is it? "Turn a small town into a park, and play with Asian rhinos, even if Hou Liang is a little white, can anyone play rhinoceros?

Although it is said that rhinoceros xing is timid, but this thing can also attack people, if you inadvertently pose a threat to the rhinoceros, and make them feel that there is no way to escape, then these xing xing are timid, but strong guys, but they will really kill people.

And this is easy to achieve in a theme park that has been transformed into a small town.

"Yes, we can provide them with rhinos." Jin Sandao.

"The cost of building a theme park is not small, can Xinwen Town afford it?" Hou Liang is not optimistic about this project.

Jin San said: "Why can't you afford it?" If they don't have the money, we will take a stake in a theme park, which is to get some big trees, renovate the environment, and raise some Asian giant rhinos in it. ”

"Asiatic Giant Rhino?" Hou Liang heard the new term again, the rhinoceros is a behemoth, and now Boss Jin has to use the giant rhinoceros to describe it, it seems that this Asian rhinoceros is not simply an ordinary rhinoceros.

"That's right, it's the Asian giant rhino, how can I tell you this! This thing is a product of ancient times, at that time, due to the different climates, whether it is animals or plants, there is a tendency to become huge, so at that time there were very large animals, and the giant rhinoceros is also one of them. Kim San explained.

"It's not going to be the big guy in DV, is it?" Hou Liang said in surprise.

Jin San smiled: "It's this kind of giant rhinoceros. ”

"Can we figure that thing out?" Hou Liang said in surprise.

"Of course, although the environment of the earth is a little different from that of ancient times, these can be solved." Jin San said confidently.

In ancient times, the oxygen content in the earth's atmosphere far exceeded today's standards, and paleontologists know from fossil specimens that the volume of organisms in ancient times was generally larger than that of modern times.

So, was it the hyper-aerobic atmosphere at that time that created the ancient giant creatures?

Scientists have found through the fossil record that there were huge species on the earth before the dinosaurs, which were giant arthropods in the Carboniferous period 300 million years ago, including super-large mayflies, insects, and scorpions; Spider plant-sized spiders.

There are also 5-foot-long millipedes and so on.

One of the most amazing is the giant dragonfly, which can reach a wingspan of 2 feet and a half (nearly 1 meter), the size of an eagle, and the largest insect ever seen on Earth.

300 million years ago, these species flourished.

At that time, most of the land was in the tropics and plants flourished (after burying into the ground to form coal, the period is therefore called the Carboniferous), but after about 50 million years, from the middle to late Permian these giant species died out.

Scientists have long speculated that perhaps changes in atmospheric oxygen levels played a key role in their rise and fall.

Now, paleontologists are beginning to investigate whether the rise and fall of these ancient dragonflies, cockroaches and other super-insects, which were about the size of today's eagles, was related to the high levels of oxygen.

The gigantic growth of animals and plants is complementary to each other, the gigantic insects, the gigantic plants, and even the later gigantic animals, although there is no reasonable explanation until now, but this change, or evolution, does exist.

Even today's horses evolved in that era.

In ancient times, wild horses were only forty or fifty centimeters in size, and it was at that time that they slowly evolved to their current size.

There is also a reason for the evolution of arthropods such as ancient oversized dragonflies.

Modern dragonflies have been studied, and it turns out that insects "breathe" through a system of stomata on their bodies, which are connected to the trachea, and from top to bottom are attached more layers of smaller and smaller stomata to carry oxygen throughout the body.

At the current oxygen level, the total length of the stomatal system has reached its limit, beyond which the oxygen level becomes insufficient.

Therefore, based on this structure, it is possible to determine the size of the organism by the amount of oxygen content.

In other words, in an environment with high concentrations of oxygen, large organisms have an evolutionary advantage in that they can get more oxygen.

Studies of invertebrates in the ocean have also found that in colder and more oxygen-rich water bodies, the size of the organisms there is also larger.

It is true that the atmospheric pressure in ancient times, especially in the Carboniferous period, was indeed higher than it is now, and it can be inferred that one of the decisive factors in the formation of those ancient behemoths was the high oxygen content, and a series of large animals, almost all of which came from that era.

Now Jin San and the animals or plants they study are all in the process of becoming huge, and Jin San is also very curious about the process of giant insects, which is mainly caused by the five poisons in the mountains behind his house.

If he can discover the secret of the enormity of animals through the study of the Asian giant rhinoceros, then his family's breeding industry will be developed in the future.

Hou Liang wanted to stay here and continue to practice, so as to consolidate the trace of qi he had just practiced.

Jin San ignored Hou Liang and walked outside holding the elephant's head.

Jin San did not enter his laboratory, but walked towards the exit of the Tibetan Horse Valley, and now the long tunnel has become the lair of the Jin family's security guards.

Jin San entered the tunnel and walked to the middle, where someone was on duty: "The big boss is good." ”

"Well, okay, did you bring in some things in the early hours of this morning?" Kim San asked.

Jin San still likes the bandit name of the big boss very much, although it doesn't sound good, but at this time it is a kind of recognition.

Since they call him this title, it means that they identify with the identity of the Jin family.

It turned out that it was only for the surrounding three towns, and calling him this title shows that Jin San supported the Jin family and was recognized by them.

But with the addition of outsiders, more and more people join the Jin family, which also means that the integration of those outsiders shows that they have integrated into the Jin family. (To be continued.) )