After the stone slabs were carefully moved back to the camp, the staff began to clean the soil from the fossils.
There was insufficient light in the pit and we could only clean it briefly. Now that it has been transported back, it needs to be cleaned thoroughly.
Although it looks like a stick, if you look closely you can still see a little difference.
The staff noticed it when they were cleaning up the camp. The fossils are not big and small details need to be in a bright place to see them.
When Wang Xiaoshan came back, he went to rest. He put the camera aside and let the audience watch the staff cleaning the fossils.
He had already seen all the fossils in the mountains, and the rest were in the camp. After a while, he asked the audience to read this first, and then look at the ones in the house.
Some fossils were brought back, and many people gathered around. Everyone wanted to see what was brought back.
After reading it, everyone felt that the things on this stone slab were a bit strange, but no one could explain why it was so strange.
The staff at Barren Mountain have done a lot of digging, and they can get a rough look at some of the fossils.
When the slabs were first brought back, the staff thought they looked like wooden sticks, but when they knelt down and took a closer look, they realized they looked like animals.
The black part on the fossil does not look like a plant, but the staff feels it looks a bit like animal skin.
Very few ancient dinosaur skins have been completely preserved, and only an incomplete dinosaur skin has been unearthed from the barren mountains.
The problem is that the skin of a large dinosaur was preserved last time, but this time the animal on the stone slab is more complete, with no traces of being cut or broken.
The slender animals can easily remind people of snakes, and Titanoboa fossils have been unearthed from barren mountains before.
Titanoboa has bones, and the excavated fossils are complete, but the python only dug out the bones, not the skin.
Fossils of other snakes have never been excavated. Snakes are vertebrates and don't have many bones. If they were excavated, they might only have one vertebrae.
It would be awesome if a whole snake could be dug out.
Most staff now think that the animal on this stone slab should be some kind of ancient snake.
The fossils of the stone slabs are relatively wide and do not look like animals such as earthworms.
The staff don't know whether it's right or not. They can only wait until the fossils are completely cleaned to hear what Wang Xiaoshan has to say.
Li Miaomiao and Cao Bingbing, two foodies, thought it might be eel at first sight. Eel is delicious.
There are still very few people who have eaten snakes, and the two reporters don't know whether it tastes good or not, but they have all eaten eels and they all found them delicious.
Li Miaomiao: “I don’t know what the ancient eel tasted like.”
Cao Bingbing: "It should taste similar to the current eel. The skin may be thicker and the meat may have more fiber."
They felt that in ancient times, the living environment was not good. The skins of all animals were extremely thick and the meat was not particularly tender.
Li Miaomiao: "If it has a lot of crude fiber, it would be a bit taxing. I still like to eat tender food."
We’re still not sure what kind of animal it is, but the two reporters have already started discussing whether it tastes good or not.
Cao Bingbing: "Let's go eat eel some other time when we are free. I haven't eaten it for a long time, and I still have something to think about!"
Li Miaomiao nodded: "You can have this, but I don't know if it is an eel. If so, are there any edible living fossils?"
Cao Bingbing: "Probably not. I have never heard of living fossils of eels. If it were possible, they would probably be eaten!"
Li Miaomiao: "It's possible. Just like the tongue-shaped clam last time, I looked online and it's not in stock yet. As soon as it becomes famous, it will be out of stock."
Cao Bingbing: "Yes, let's write the manuscript. Clean it up first. After cleaning it up, we will see what it is!"
After chatting for a while, the two reporters went to write their articles, but their articles were not finished yet.
If I can't finish writing, let alone eat eels, it will be a question of whether I can have dinner safely.
Fortunately, the fossils in the barren mountains today were just average except for this stone slab, which also put less pressure on the two reporters.
If there were a bunch of awesome fossils in the mountains, they wouldn't have time to chat. They wouldn't even be able to type.
[The staff who are cleaning the fossils are so slow. Can they be faster? They are waiting so anxiously. Please use a brush faster.]
[I just heard people at the scene say it looks like a snake, but I don’t think it looks like it. The entire body of a snake is the same thickness. This fossil has one end bigger and one smaller. It doesn’t look like a snake at all!]
[Maybe it’s a rattlesnake. The long tail is quite special. It’s more likely to be a snake, but it can’t be a loach or something like that!]
[So many things in the water have been unearthed in the barren mountains. This one may be a water snake. It looks a little different from the current snakes! 】
[I'd better wait for Lao Wang to introduce it. I really can't tell what this thing is. I also think it looks a bit like a crutch.]
The audience in the live broadcast room kept posting comments and guessing what it was.
The sound of the live broadcast was not turned off, and the audience heard what the on-site staff said.
Some viewers prefer to think it is a snake. In people's perception, snakes are as long as sticks and have not changed much since ancient times.
Unlike other animals that used to swim in the water and later moved to land, some animals on land later grew wings and flew.
There may be other animals that are similar in length to snakes, but the audience will not be able to remember them for a while. Their first impression is that they are snakes.
Of course, some viewers don't think so. The general appearance of this fossil has been revealed. One end is thick and the other is thin, which is very obvious.
Many viewers thought this might not be a snake, and they couldn't tell exactly what it was. Anyway, it gave them the impression that it was not a snake, but maybe some other animal.
Many viewers also checked online to see what animals looked similar to snakes in ancient times.
But you wouldn’t know if you didn’t look it up. Once you look it up, you’ll find that there are many animals that look like snakes, and there are quite a few similar species in ancient times.
I really want to find one that is exactly the same as the animal on the stone slab, but there is none.
What is given online are restoration pictures or fossil pictures.
It is too difficult to tell what the fossils on the stone slab look like from the restored pictures. It is impossible for experts to tell at a glance, let alone the audience.
The restoration pictures all show flesh with skin attached to it. The fossils are so strong that there are only bones. There are only a few of them with flesh all over the world.
It's even harder to tell from the fossil map. Each fossil is formed differently, and the final appearance of the fossil is also different.
For example, the fossils on the stone slab this time are black. Maybe the fossils of the same species in other places are of other colors. This is all possible.
Depending on the reasons for their formation, the colors will be slightly different, not to mention that it is impossible for all animals of a species to have the same color.
Just like cats, tabby cats, Persian cats, and ragdolls are all cats that look similar, but have different coats.
If they were all bones, you could still tell whether they were the same animal.
The problem is that when looking at the stone slab, we don’t see any animal bones, which is a bit embarrassing.
No one is sure what is on the stone slab now.
This also makes the workers who clean the slate very slow. If they encounter a new species and accidentally clean it, it will be over.
Now there are many pairs of eyes in the barren mountain staring at the stone slabs. The staff who cleaned the fossils were so careful that they regretted moving back to clean them.
After half an hour of cleaning, Wang Xiaoshan was impatient. It took half a day to clean a small fossil, and it had already been roughly cleaned when he was in the pit.
When he went over to take a look, the staff finally cleaned up the finer end of the fossil, and they would be able to clean it all out in a while.
Wang Xiaoshan took the camera and let the audience take a look at the fossil as a whole.
Just now the camera was placed on the side, so the audience couldn't see the whole thing. Now he wants the audience to see the whole thing.
"Dear viewers, what I just showed you is the entire fossil. I will explain it to you later when all the fossils are cleaned up!"
"It's almost done. It'll be ready in just a few minutes."
[Lao Wang, I don’t want to wait for a minute anymore. The cleaning speed is not much faster than a snail. I’m really anxious! 】
[Fortunately, the fossils did not grow long this time. If they had grown, they would not have been cleaned until tomorrow. I am really impressed by the speed! 】
[Looking at it now, I feel a bit like a fish, especially the thin end, and the flat end looks like a fish’s tail.]
[Not to mention it’s true, we have a fish here that looks like a snake. Ours is called eel-scaled fish. I don’t know if there are such snakes in other places. 】
[I have eaten this kind of fish, and it does look like an eel. It is actually a fish, and the meat is quite delicious. Maybe this fossil is the ancestor of the eel-scaled fish. 】
The audience was impatient to wait, it was too torturous, and the cleaning speed was extremely slow.
Fortunately, it will be cleared up soon. If it had been a long time, the audience would have cursed.
Now the entire fossil has been almost cleaned up, and some areas that were not clearly visible before have also been cleaned up.
Some attentive viewers discovered that the thin section of this fossil resembled the tail of a fish and was not the same length as the middle section of the fossil.
The audience's first impression was that this might be some kind of fish. As for snakes, whether it is a water snake or a snake on land, it is absolutely impossible for its tail to grow like a fish.
For a while, the audience in the live broadcast room began to guess what kind of fish this was, and several viewers actually mentioned the name of a fish.
Many curious viewers actually went to the Internet to search, and they actually found out that there is indeed a fish that looks like an eel or a snake.
The audience felt that this animal was the most inseparable this time.
Some foodie viewers have already gone online to check how to buy the scallops. Last time Wang Xiaoshan announced the lingual clams, many viewers went online and failed to buy the lingual clams.
This time the audience decided to act first, regardless of whether it was true or not, place an order first, and then cancel the order later if it is not true.
Anyway, Wang Xiaoshan will tell you the name of this fossil in a while. It will be easy to handle when you know the name.
Some foodies have already started posting comments discussing how to eat snake-like fish like eel-scale fish and whether it tastes good or not.
In the eyes of foodies, everything is edible, especially this kind of living fossil which is more enjoyable to eat.
Animals that have lived for thousands of years have become spirits. It would definitely be a pleasure to eat them.
Now everyone is waiting for the moment when the fossils are cleaned up. Wang Xiaoshan will give everyone some time to figure out whether this is a lie.
At first everyone felt like a stick, but now no one feels like a stick anymore.
After seven or eight minutes, the staff finally finished cleaning all the fossils. He was very tired, so he quickly went aside to rest after cleaning.
Wang Xiaoshan took the camera and let the audience in the live broadcast room take a closer look at the fossil. He started from the thick end and let the audience look at it. After finishing the thick end, he slowly turned to the thin end.
After a while, he asked the audience to see the fossils this time. It was up to the audience to see whether they could see it. He let everyone understand what happened.
"Dear viewers, let me tell you first that the fossil you just saw is an animal fossil, not a plant."
"Also, this animal is not the eel-scaled fish that everyone is talking about. It is not a fish."
[What? It’s not a fish, so what on earth is this thing? Is it really a snake? But it doesn’t look like a snake. Are there such things in life? 】
[My dear, it’s not the case, so I’ll cancel the order quickly. Lao Wang will tell me the answer quickly and let me place the correct order!]
[Snake-like fish are still rare. This should be some kind of snake or eel, but I don’t know which one I prefer!]
[Snakes and eels don’t have many hard bones. How can they be so well preserved? There are no bones in this fossil. It would be easier if the bones could be seen! 】
[It’s hard to figure out whether there are bones or not. I guess the fossil this time is not some kind of animal we commonly see!]
For a moment, the audience in the live broadcast room started to quarrel. Just now they were confident that it was a fish, but now it is no longer the case. The audience was very depressed.
Some viewers who observed carefully felt that it might be a snake or an eel, and it should be one of them. Other animals are unlikely.
In ancient times, fish were fish and snakes were snakes. There was no such thing as something that looked like a snake but was not a snake, or something that looked like a fish but was not a fish.
If that's true, the name reflects it. So far, no one has heard of such a creature in ancient times.
Now the audience can no longer guess what the specific thing is. They can't guess the fossil with bones, and they can't guess the fossil with skin visible. It's difficult.
The current staff is still waiting for Wang Xiaoshan to see if it might be a snake. They have just photographed the fish out.
The possibility of it being a snake is now very high, and Wang Xiaoshan’s next words also confused the current staff.
"The animal on the fossil that everyone is looking at this time is not a snake. Although the fossil looks like a snake, it is actually not a snake."
Neither was the snake. Now everyone was completely confused. Even two of their guesses were not correct. This thing was really difficult to guess, and the difficulty factor was too high.
There are still some viewers posting this barrage in the live broadcast room, and their only hope is on Eel.
These viewers think that the eel is the most likely, and this has been eliminated. If this is wrong, the audience will not be prepared to guess, and will just wait for the answer, and they will not be able to guess it at all.