Planet Earth can be likened to an orbiting transit terminal where there’s a constant stream of arrivals and departures.
The UN estimates that each day around 385,000 souls – each one having acquired the intelligence and ability to build a human body and express self-consciousness – arrive to further their development.
Countless others aren’t quite there yet. They’re at different stages of their cyclic journeys gaining knowledge through life forms that provide special learning experiences.
And curious humans – the most highly evolved of all life forms – with next to know understanding of what life on Earth is really all about have an endless fascination and interest in their lesser evolved relatives.
Snakes
You can learn about snakes, their biological evolution and their life experience that provides souls with schooling by doing a snake-search on the Aquarian Age web.
That said, recent research involving the genomic data of roughly 1,000 species and other data pertaining to snake diet, skull anatomy and reproductive biology has found that snakes evolved from four-legged lizards and they’re an evolutionary success story having first appeared in the age of dinosaurs. They originated about 120 million years ago and were fully limbless around 85 million years ago.
A burst of snake evolution occurred around 90-110 million years ago, and again at various times after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. That’s when the animating soul intelligence took advantage of ecological opportunities and evolved new traits quickly.
They developed extremely flexible skulls to better capture and swallow prey; and acquired an impressive prey-detection system using their sense of smell. Some developed the ability to see infrared – essentially heat sensors; and some became venomous.
Snakes generally eat vertebrate animals or hard-to-eat invertebrates like venomous centipedes, scorpions or noxious snails and slugs. Some specialize in eating frog eggs, earthworms or bird eggs. The paddle-tailed sea snake preys on fish eggs extracted from coral reef crevices; and some tree snakes have specialized jaws to extract snails from their shells. Some boas hunt bats roosting in caves and some snakes prey on other snakes.
And snakes do everything from deep-sea diving to climbing trees.
There are 3,900 living snake species. The smallest is the threadsnake, about 4 inches (10 cm) long and the longest is the reticulated python, around 20 feet (6 meters) and they all provide souls on evolutionary journeys with the opportunity to further their intelligence and ability development through experience.
February 29, 2024: Researchers in the Amazon report they have discovered the world’s largest snake species in Ecuador’s rainforest. The Northern Green Anaconda split from its closest relatives 10 million years ago, though they still look much the same today.
Cicadas
Now, talking of arrivals, in April 2024 a rare natural phenomenon is set to occur in parts of the United States. That’s when two enormous adjacent broods of periodical cicadas known as XIII and XIX will simultaneously emerge. One brood is concentrated in the Midwestern states and the other in the South and Midwest, with a small area of overlap in Illinois,
More than a trillion cicadas are set to arrive.
Cicadas are a relatively large insect – you must have seen one. They possess a sturdy body, bulging compound eyes and membranous wings and there are many different kinds.
They feed on plant juices, called xylem, drawn from the roots of deciduous trees and shrubs; and spend much of their life cycle – years on end – underground as nymphs – sexually immature forms of insects – feeding on roots and drinking xylem.
Annual cicadas emerge during any given year and spend one to nine years underground as nymphs, varying by species. They do not have a synchronized emergence – emerging on a staggered basis.
Periodical cicadas generally spend 13 or 17 years underground as nymphs and have a synchronized emergence. All members of a particular brood emerge in the same year, from late April into June, depending on their location.
They mainly emerge at night and crawl up any hard surfaces – tree trunks, fences, vegetation – and molt into adult winged cicadas. After a few days, adults fly into the tree canopy, where males call to females by vibrating their tymbals. A female that’s attracted to a particular male’s call responds with wing flicks, which also make a sound. Pairs then mate.
Female cicadas then seek pencil-sized branches of trees and shrubs in sunny locations and lay their eggs into slits they cut in branches. After six to seven weeks hatched nymphs drop to the ground and burrow to begin the next generation of periodical cicadas.
Cicadas live as adults for just a few weeks, then die after reproducing. Their short lives providing experience which contributes to the development of their intelligence and ability.
There are more than 3,000 species of cicadas worldwide, but only nine are periodical, and seven of those – of the genus Magicicada – are found in North America.
The rare natural phenomenon that will see two broods of periodical cicadas emerge from April through June 2024 in the United States will next occur in 2245.
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