Human embryos never have any gills or any tails

Scientists believed in the middle of the 19th century that the human embryo went through all stages of the evolution of the species. Scientific theories of that time said that the impregnated ovum grows into the freshwater hydroid, turns into the gilled fish, develops into a tailed animal and finally becomes a human being.




It was proved long ago that the hypothesis was incorrect, to put it mildly.

The story began in 1866, when German biologist Ernst Haeckel decided to find a proof of Darwin ’s theory. Having studied human and animal embryos of different ages, he found many similarities between them. The scientist considered that the tail and the gills of the human embryo were not just a mere coincidence. He eventually concluded that each living being quickly repeats the development of its species in the prenatal development.

The church did not like Haeckel’s ideas, although his colleagues renamed it into the biogenetic law. Unfortunately, it never became possible to prove the law in its original wording. The facts, which seemed to be indisputable at first sight, turned out to be wrong under a closer inspection.

Embryologists have revised the Haeckel-Muller law, although its myths still live today.

It seems that the gills of the human embryo give a precise indication of the place of the human being on the evolution tree. However, Haeckel only described the outward appearance of the embryos and left all the details of their internal structure aside. The scientist mistook the gills for the folding tissue which preceded the head and the neck. The folds became traditionally known as gill arches, although it would be correct to refer to them as visceral arches. The human embryo has no gill openings similar to those of cold-blooded animals.

The embryos are often pictured with tails. It was revealed that the human embryo has a larger number of the vertebrae in comparison with adult humans – 38 against 33-34. The future skeleton undergoes a slight transformation afterwards and the baby sees the light having the usual number of spinal bones. Like the nervous system, the axial skeleton of the embryo grows slower than other organs and tissues. That is why the embryo has several large sizes in comparison with the whole tiny organism.

There were many incidents in medical practice when children were born having small tails. Many still take such tails for the attributes of Homo sapiens distant ancestors. In India , such children were believed to be messengers from monkey god Hanuman. Thousands of pilgrims would come to touch the holy tail. In Europe , however, the fate of such children was very sad

TEN MOST DANGERS PLACES PART 2

7. The Winchester House in San Jose, California. The mystery house is a colossal construction, a home to many myths and prejudices. A fortune-teller once told Sarah Winchesater, an heiress to an armory company, that ghosts would haunt nut her throughout her life, so she needed to leave Connecticut and travel to the west, where she would need to build a huge house, the construction of which would have to continue as long as she was alive. The construction began in San Jose in 1884 and did not stop for 38 until Sarah died. The house is currently inhabited by the ghosts of her insanity: stairways into the ceiling, doors in the middle of walls, chandeliers and hooks. Even those who never believe in ghosts say that they heard or saw something strange during their visit to the house.






8. Mary King’s Close in Edinburgh. These are several streets with gloomy and hideous past, hidden in the medieval Old Town in Edinburgh. This place, where victims of plague would be left to die in the 17th century, is known for its poltergeists. The tourists visiting the weird location say that something invisible touches their arms and legs. Locals say that it is a ghost of a girl named Annie, whom her parents left there in 1645. A new large building was built in Mary King’s Close a hundred years later. The close was open for tourists in 2003.

9. Abbey of Thelema, Sicily. Aleister Crowley is probably one of the most infamous occultists in the world. This house, abundant with dark pagan frescos, used to be the world capital of Satan orgies. Crowley is known for his fans, like Marilyn Manson. He also appeared on the cover of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Crowley founded the Abbey of Thelema, which became the community of free love. Filmmaker Kenneth Anger, a devotee of Crowley, made a film about the Abbey, but the film mysteriously disappeared later. The abbey has been practically ruined now.

10. Chernobyl, Ukraine. Tourists can visit the abandoned town of Pripyat and see its restriction zone. Thousands of people left their homes and abandoned their possessions when the Chernobyl disaster struck. Toys can be seen scattered in kindergartens, newspapers are resting on dinner tables. The Chernobyl disaster area is now open for tourist visits – the radiation level there is safe. As a rule, a bus trips begins in Kiev. Afterwards, tourists walk to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, see the Sarcophagus and then go to the town of Pripyat

Ten most horrible places on Earth PART 1

1. The Mutter Museum of Medical History. The museum was founded to educate future doctors about anatomy and human anomalies. It is a museum of pathologies, ancient medical tools and biological exhibits. The museum is known for its extensive collection of skulls. It also has various unique exhibits, for example, the dead body of a woman which turned into soap in the ground where she was buried. One can also see there the Siamese twins sharing only one liver, the skeleton of a two-headed child and other hideous exhibits.






2. Truk Lagoon, Micronesia. A big part of the Japanese navy now rests on the floor of Truk Lagoon in Micronesia, south-east off the Hawaiian Archipelago. The bottom of the lagoon, which Jacques Yves Cousteau explored in 1971, is all covered with fragments of warships that sank in 1944. The lagoon has become a great attraction for divers, although many fear the crews that never left their action posts. Destroyers and aircraft grew into coral reefs, but many divers never return from their underwater journeys exploring the reefs.

3. The witchcraft market in Sonora, Mexico. Witches in Sonora sit in tiny booths and promise to relieve clients of poverty and infidelity for only $10. The market is open every day for pilgrims from Mexico and foreign tourists, who come to Sonora to find out at least something about their future. Anyone can buy there mysterious potions, snake blood and dried humming birds to tame their luck.

4. Easter Island, Chile. This island is one of the most mysterious places in the world. The island is world-known for its giant statues carved of stone. The giant statues look into the sky as if they are begging for mercy. Only stone statues know where their creators went. No one on the island knows the art of statue-making. No one knows how it could be possible to make those 20-meter high and 90-ton heavy giants. The statues used to be transported 20 kilometers far from the quarry, where ancient sculptors worked.

5. Manchac Swamp, Louisiana. The place is also known as the ghost swamp. The swamp is located near New Orleans. Legend has it that the swamp was cursed by a voodoo queen when she was captivated in the beginning of the 1920s. Three little villages disappeared there in a hurricane in 1915.

6. The Catacombs of Paris. The walls of the long corridor are “tiled” with skulls and bones. The air is very dry, carrying only a slight hint of decay. When you get into the catacombs underneath Paris you begin to realize why Viktor Hugo and Anne Rice wrote their famous novels about these dungeons. They stretch for about 187 kilometers underneath the whole city, and only a small part of them is open for access. They say that the legendary underground police patrol the catacombs, although legions of zombies and vampires seem to be more appropriate at this point.

Extraterrestrials greatly interested in human sperm and ovules PART 1

The president of the Academy for Applied Ufology, Academician Vladimir Azhazha, is considered to be the founding father of the Russian ufology. He shared his knowledge of aliens with Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, who subsequently confirmed his status as the nation’s chief scientist in ufology. The academician has recently marked his 80th birthday and is currently working on an extensive collection of books (ten volumes) devoted to UFOs.



It goes without saying that the traditional science does not treat ufology seriously. Vladimir Putin once said that he never believed in extraterrestrial beings.

“Putin is a secret service man. Mikhail Gorbachev was the first and the last national leader who acknowledged the issue of unidentified flying objects in Russia. We established the public ufological center during his rule under my supervision. Thousands of ufologists were working for me from 1990 to 1995. We collected tons of information to prove the existence of UFOs. There are other civilizations in the universe, no matter if we want it or not,” the scientist said.

“The term ‘extraterrestrial’ is not quite correct. There is no evidence to prove that aliens come from other planets. No one knows where they come from. It is not ruled out that they come from a civilization of parallel worlds, or from the ocean. Modern science knows very little about what’s happening at ocean’s depths,” Vladimir Azhazha believes.

“There were incidents when scientists saw unidentified objects in the Mariana Trench. I am a submariner myself, although I have never seen something like that. We once encountered an unusual animal in the ocean, although we failed to determine and classify the being. It was a lyre - shaped creature .

“US satellites took several infrared photographs of Mexico, Chile and Bolivia in 1993. The pictures showed large objects up to 450 kilometers in diameter – the flying cities. This is where they all come from.

“You probably realize that I do not feel like fantasizing at my age. My facts show that aliens use fresh water as fuel for their aircraft. They decompose water into oxygen and hydrogen. In Australia, a UFO was once spotted landing on a tank holding 38 tons of water. When it took off, there was no water found in the tank. There was a smell of ozone in the air, which made it clear that they decomposed water into oxygen and hydrogen and compressed the latter under the pressure of several hundreds of atmospheres. We won’t be able to carry a bucket of mercury, because it will weigh 130 kilograms. If we compress hydrogen, a truck won’t be able to move a spoonful of it.

Killer UFOs hide in lakes

Mysterious flying objects of all shapes – round, ellipsoid, rectangular and triangular – can often be spotted near Lake Gaipo in the Cordilleras. Locals see them flying into the water of the lake or hanging above the water surface and then disappearing in the sky.



Unlike ufologists, the Quechua Indians living on the shores of Gaipo Lake do not associate such phenomena with extraterrestrial beings. They are certain that witches and wizards assume the similitude of UFOs as they hunt for humans.

Legend has it that a beam of light from a luminous object struck an Indian once. The man could not move a finger until the UFO vanished in the air. Another legend tells the story of a woman who was picking brushwood in the forest when she suddenly saw a disk of fire hanging above the lake. The disk was producing enormous heat that the woman could feel although she was standing quite far from the object.

Gaipo is not the only killer lake in the world. A strange incident took place in October 1994 on John D. Long Lake in South Carolina. A young woman named as Susan Smith was convicted of murdering her two little sons. Susan left the boys, 3-year-old Michael and 14-months-old Alexander in her car and let it roll into the lake drowning the boys. Susan was sentenced to life in prison.

The tragedy became a huge shock for the local population, and the people erected a monument on the pier in memory of the two children. The nightmare repeated again two years later, when a car with seven people inside – three adults and four children – suddenly took off, drove between the monuments to Alex and Michael and fell into the lake. All passengers of the car died in the accident, including another man who jumped into the water in an attempt to rescue at least someone. The stories made the local population believe that the lake had been cursed.

Several dozens of cars drowned in Lake Whitney in Texas. All of the cars with passengers inside rolled into the lake from piers. Divers found some of the cars of the bottom of the lake, although they never found any human remains.

Local police officers say that many of those cars could not roll into the water because they were on a parking brake. Ufologists say that two unidentified flying objects landed on the lake during the first half of the 1970s. Is there any connection between UFOs and mysterious deaths? UFO’s are usually attracted to geopathogenic zones. It is not ruled out that the electromagnetic fields of such zones affect man-made objects and humans, which eventually results in tragic accidents. UFOs may also be the source of pathogenic radiation.

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Humans and animals fall victims to mysterious killer lakes

There are many god-forsaken places in the world where birds never sing and trees never grow. Locals usually say that such places are cursed, although it may not always be so. Scientists believe that it can happen just because of poisonous air.




Lake Kakhynaidakh in Russia’s Yakutia Republic is known as Devil’s Lake. The water in the lake is dark, its shores are obstructed with charred trees, piles of coal slags and burnt clay. They may often find dead bodies of animals and even humans near the lake, and no one has ever been able to determine their cause of death.

The story happened in the beginning of the 20th century. A local fisherman cast a net one day in the lake when he suddenly saw that the water started boiling before his very eyes. The next moment the man heard an explosion, he fell down on the ground and covered himself with a tent-cloth. He stayed there still until everything went quiet. The man stood up and found his clothes damaged with fire on the back. The fish in his sweep-net was boiled. The fisherman pulled the net out of the hot water and ran away. The lake was later dubbed as Devil’s Lake, and no one dared to approach the cursed place ever since.

Geologists supposed that the explosion described in the legend had occurred because of coal deposits that were burning deep under the ground. Most likely, the fisherman witnessed a methane explosion that occurred underneath the lake.

Another anomalous zone is located in Russia’s Kamchatka, not far from the Geyser Valley. The zone is known as the Death Valley. Remnants of dead animals can be found everywhere in the valley of death. There is hardly any vegetation there; the rocks on the slopes are covered with sulfur depositions. One can smell sulphuretted hydrogen in the air.

The people who find themselves in the area, soon get the feeling of dry mouth. Afterwards, they suffer from headache, the blood pressure rises and they may have nausea and dizziness. A person will recover about 30 minutes after leaving the place.

Scientists say that people have those symptoms in the valley because of carbon dioxide and sulphuretted hydrogen poisoning. The gases evaporate from the depth as a result of volcanic activity. It took scientists quite a while to understand why death occurs so quickly. For example, a huge bear died once soon after he ate the meat one of the animals that died in the valley. The discovery was made only in 1982, when scientists found highly concentrated poisonous cyanic composites in the volcanic evaporations.

Lakes Nyos and Monoun in Cameroon are known for their ill reputation too. The lakes were formed in volcanic craters about 500 years ago. The bottoms of the lakes are covered with magma. Gases come out of the volcano, blend with ground waters and get accumulated in bottom layers of the lakes. If something troubles the gases – a strong wind, a landslide or an earthquake – the solutions begin to produce carbonic acid. It literally shoots up in the sky. The cloud of gas kills all living beings many kilometers around. Thirty-seven people were killed in August 1984 when Lake Monoun exploded. About 1,800 people were killed on August 21, 1986 on the shores on Lake Nyos under similar circumstances

Another attempt to solve the Tungus mystery

Another attempt to solve the Tungus mystery


Expedition to solve the mystery of Tungus meteorite

New expedition has already set off for Evenkia last Friday in order to solve the mystery behind the popular phenomenon known as Tungus meteorite.





Scientists are hoping to find material evidences disproving the main version of the events which took place almost a hundred years ago. Officially, on June 30th 1908 a huge meteorite descended from the sky and shook taiga, reports RIA “Novosti”.

“We intend to uncover evidences that will prove the fact that it was not a meteorite that rammed the Earth, but a UFO,” stated the team’s supervisor Yuri Labvin to journalists. [Yuri Labvin has been heading the public fund dedicated to studying the Tungus cosmic phenomenon.

Armed with metal detectors and other innovative gadgets, members of the expedition (14) plan to inspect taiga near the Poligus village as well as surrounding area by the river Podkamennaya Tunguska.

The scouting area is situated in approximately 500 kilometers to the West from the place where previous scientific expeditions used to search for the traces of the fallen meteorite.

Labvin also stated that according to space photography of this region of Evenkia, the area is full of “metal traces” which could in fact have something to do with the “man-caused catastrophe which took place 100 years ago.” The expedition is scheduled to return back to Krasnoyarsk on August 5th.