Golden Fishery

The fossil excavation work on Shenbao Lake has been going on, but it has not started. Before that, it was all preparatory work, and the mining would start directly in the spring.

Billy's job is to dive to explore the fossils at the bottom of the lake. Originally, this job would be done by the underwater camera, but the underwater robot could not land at the bottom of Shenbao Lake because the bottom of the lake is too muddy, so it can only be explored by manpower.

The divers searched for the fossils at the bottom of the lake, and then marked them one by one. According to the information they provided, the people of the National Fossil Museum used a salvage ship converted from a small submarine to salvage these fossils.

The small submarine has a very flexible robotic arm, like a multi-armed water monster, which can perform underwater cutting, collecting, ramming, and grabbing.

Relying on this small submarine, some fragments of fossils were fished up in March. Due to the pressure and location of the lake bottom, this batch of fossils could not be extracted completely at one time, so they had to be dismembered, cleaned up ashore and put together again.

In order to protect the salvage machinery and equipment, the working site of the Fossil Museum is closed and managed, and the staff cannot enter. Qin Shiou was able to take the lead in seeing the fossils this time, thanks to Billy's leadership.

Recently, large tents have been set up on the north shore of Shenbao Lake. Anyway, Farewell Island has a lot of wasteland, so you can set up tents at will.

After Billy showed his work permit, someone took him into the front tent, and Tang Ji Button, who was more familiar with Qin Shiou, came face to face.

Seeing Barton, Qin Shiou took the initiative to say hello: "Hey, buddy, I haven't seen you go fishing for a long time. Spring is a good time for night fishing, but it will be a little cold at night, but it's interesting, isn't it?"

Barton smiled and said: "Yes, Qin, yes, night fishing in spring is a very interesting activity. But you see, damn it, I have too much work to do, and I don't have time to enjoy it. Oh. God, if, I mean, if, after the work at hand is over. I must go out to sea for a week, and I won’t come back until I catch a great white shark.”

Several people were chatting, and a familiar voice sounded from behind: "Qin, long time no see."

Qin Shiou turned his head and saw Hamley striding towards him. is waving to him.

"Why are you here?" Qin Shiou asked in surprise, "You are a busy Mr. Mayor, aren't you?"

Hamley laughed loudly and said, "Dude, aren't you talking ironically? Absolutely not, because in my impression, Qin is a simple and honest young man. Well, I admit that I haven't invited you as a guest for a long time, but I'm really busy."

Qin Shiou pointed to the fossils inside,

Said: "Don't tell me, you are also in charge of the museum now."

"If so. Then the museum I manage must be the Museum of Natural History in New York." Hamley smiled.

This surprised the mayor's assistant who followed him. In the eyes of this young assistant, the mayor seemed to be a strict and slightly rigid ancient British gentleman, but unexpectedly he turned into a funny man today.

It turns out that people have two sides, the young assistant sighed. He knew Qin Shiou, and everyone in the St. Johns political circle knew this invisible rich man. He could not hide the fact that he provided Hamley with 50 million campaign funds.

The fame of the New York Museum of Natural History comes more from a Hollywood blockbuster, "Night at the Museum", which is very famous in Canada, especially Eastern Canada, because it was shot in Montreal. rather than America.

After joking, Hamley told Qin Shiou the truth that this fossil project was the last political project left over from his time as mayor of the town, and now it is finally about to see results. How could he not show his face?

Canada is different from China. Because it is composed of immigrants, this country has no history. Therefore, the government attaches great importance to showing history even before the emergence of human beings.

This can be seen from the advancement of the fossil museum's salvage equipment and the amount of funds used. Qin Shiou read the report. It is said that the central government of Canada, the provincial government of Newfoundland, the municipal government of St. Johns and the government of the town of Farewell have fourfold funding.

If you have the strength to contribute, and the money to contribute, the fossils must be fully mined.

Qin Shiou sighed and said that the Canadian government is really working hard to explore history. Billy didn't take it seriously and said: "What really interests the politicians in Ottawa is that among the fossils this time is a fish fossil that has not been found much before. , this type of fossil is the most valuable and can give Canada international exposure."

When Billy said this, Qin Shiou suddenly recalled the conversation he had with Balzac when he checked the fossils together. At that time, he said that he seemed to have found a fish fossil that he had never seen before, and it seemed that it had been developed now.

In this way, Qin Shiou asked enthusiastically: "Is there any result for this newly discovered fish fossil?"

The reason why he is interested is the black cover giant worm, that kind of seabed beetle has not yet been officially recognized, and it is not known whether this unknown fish is related to the giant worm.

Barton poured a basin of cold water: "I'm sorry, there was an error in our observations before. In fact, this kind of fish fossil was unearthed before, and it was named 'branch gland fish'. It belongs to prehistoric creatures in the Baiji era."

As he said that, he led everyone to a wide long table, on which a complete fish fossil was assembled.

When Qin Shiou heard that fossils of this fish had been unearthed before, he lost interest, and Billy also had the same attitude.

Barton noticed the change in their attitude, so he laughed and said: "Although this kind of fossil has been discovered long ago, there are few complete fossils before, and the specific information is not known, so our fossils are still valuable. .”

Hamley had worked in the fossil museum and asked, "Is there any new progress in the research on this fossil?"

Barton nodded and said, "Yes, there are some new insights. We used to think that gill fish lived by preying on molluscs because they had small and sharp teeth. This is not the case."

"Looking at the fossils now, they should be similar to today's tarpon. The food is plankton and seaweed, and the feeding method is filter feeding, a bit like baleen whales. Of course, related research is still ongoing, and I believe more information will be available soon. "

The most abundant fossils come from kitchen sharks and mosasaurs, sea rivals who at one point were predators of each other. Later, for unknown reasons, the mosasaur grew in size and became a more advanced predator, specializing in hunting golden kitchen sharks.

For mosasaurs, people who have watched the latest "Jurassic World" are deeply impressed. The oss tyrannosaurus in the movie was finally swallowed by a Neptune, which is a type of mosasaurid.

When introducing the mosasaur, Barton laughed and said, "The value of our batch of fossils lies not only in the gill gland fish, but also in these big guys. They brought us a little surprise, that is, the sword-shooting fish." To be continued.)

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