SPINY CREATURE FROM THE PAST EMERGES FROM

THE SANDS OF THE GOBI DESERT

Recasting the Chinese Dragon folklore into an anecdote is this massive armored fossil of a worm-like creature found by a team of enthusiastic excavators sponsored from Rhode Island, USA. Persistent rumors from cattle herders near Yinchuan brought authorities to investigate the isolated site of Hohhot where an astounding fossil discovery was made by US scientists. YINCHUAN, NINGXIA - While an wide excavation team of palaeontologists from several prominent universities in the USA were transported here for some interesting fossils in the Gobi Desert near Hohhot, with the permit of the Chinese government, they were startled to find this fifteen meter fossil that not one of the archaeologists had ever seen before. What came out from the dig, was unpredicted as it looked more like a primeval form of massive, carnivorous and armored worm on an unforeseen scale. “It seems Jebidiah Smith’s ‘A Commentary on the Book of Gates’ not just some cooked up fiction,” says Taylor Madson, an Assistant Professor of Archaeology from Oxford, present at the site. The fossil measured some fifteen meters in length and was so huge that it took thirty men to record the find in the gouge. The spines found on the fossil indicate that the creature used them as drills to push through the soil and travel underground digging holes in the earth. Rudick Gusher, Professor of the vertebrae and invertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Ohio, said,”This discovery could possibly unfold many ancient Chinese myths that spoke of such legendary creatures.” Although the Chinese dragons have many animal forms this worm like beast from the past, Gusher believes, could have been the inspiration behind all the legendary folklore. This fifteen meter specimen was unearthed near Hohhot under the supervision of Chinese authorities working in conjunction with US universities. The fossil has been reported to be nearly 3 billion years old and been heavily advanced in evolutionary structure. The find was sponsored by the Bourne University in Rhode Island, USA. The focus of the university is the investigation and authentification of the supposed "fringe" work of Oxford Professor Jebidiah Ethan Smith, who's research into an elusive tome called the "Book of Gates" was compiled into a volume called ‘A Commentary on the Book of Gates (1868)’ in the 19th Century. It described an ancient continent called Yidath that was populated by the ancestors of modern animals today, but more horrific in appearance and demeanor. They are a similar description made by Smith in the book to what was referred as a ‘Tomb Worm’ which was located near a mythical pyramid called Xoth in Arabia that Smith vanished looking for in 1870. It was assumed he perished. Such finds, as stated by their Public Relations Departments, prove the support is working. "We are excited about the possibilities these discoveries have revealed. Especially today. The current ideas about Earth's evolution are clearly under revision during these fascinating revelations," said Thomas R. Paine, an academic official from Bourne University. Such creatures, he continued, were prevalent on the ancient continent and as the progress of continental drift occurred over billions of years, the remains of Yidath went with them. Paine believes this is yet another proof of the correctness of the "Book of Gates." For centuries Nomadic Mongolians told campfire stories about great armored dragons that lived deep in the desert and died lone before before their people came to the Gobi Desert. However, so far the scientists have difficulty classifying the specimen, as it contains qualities combined and unseen in modern variations. “As we dug in deeper at the face of the fossil, we though in would be the remains of a Dromaeosauridae. But we were amazed once the entire fossil was in place. A huge spiny worm,” explains a digger who looked a little alarmed. The roughly 500,000 square mile Gobi Desert covers parts of Northeastern and Northern China of Southern Mongolia. While much of the Gobi is bare rock plains and not sands as portrayed in common conceptions, the environment is harsh but yet sustain large numbers of animals, such as polecats, camels, wild boars, bears, wolves and cats. The desert is home to a large insect, bird and reptile population. The Gobi Desert is the location of many of the world's finest fossils finds, such as the world's first dinosaur eggs discovered by English archaeologists in 1923. The Gobi Gurvansaikham National Park, the Great Gobi A and Great Gobi B, as well as other large nature preserves were established to protect from incursion and livestock grazing. As far as Paine is concerned, the area deserved protected status. These ancient fossilized prizes only bolster that argument, he said, “I think this is a really good example of what some of the unknown treasures of Gobi Desert are.”