And it’s NOT related to the oil spill! – If we could talk to the birds, what would they tell us? They would say, “Help, we’re shrinking!” US songbirds are getting smaller, becoming lighter in weight with shorter wings. This has happened in the last 50 years, which leads scientists to conclude that it’s a result of climate change. Biologists call this “Bergman’s Rule,” which states that animals tend to be smaller in warmer climates. Even in the same area, animals living at higher elevations (such as on mountains) are smaller than the same animals living down below. In the case of birds, this doesn’t seem to be harmful to them.
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Are we evolving? – June 2010 was the hottest June on record (since NOAA began keeping track of temperatures in 1880). Climate change may not be good for current humans, but it may have helped our ancestors BECOME human–are we still evolving? In the Turkana Basin of Kenya, one of the places where human life began, the average daily temperature has reached the mid-90s or higher, year-round, for the past 4 million years. But it was the altitude, not the heat, that forced ancient Tibetans to undergo the fastest evolution ever seen in humans.
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Mac Tonnies was one of the fastest rising young investigators of the paranormal and the UFO phenomenon before his untimely death of natural causes at the age of 34. His last book, the Cryptoterrestrials, asks the question: what if the “aliens” are actually from here? How would that work? What’s the evidence?

Mac’s close associate Mike Clelland is interviewed by Whitley Strieber about this provocative idea and Mac’s fascinating new book.

To read Mac Tonnies’ work, click here.

Mike Clelland’s blog can be found at HiddenExperience.blogspot.com.

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