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25 The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull 25 The Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull The Mitchell-Hedges Less than green biofuels and shells are usually all that is preserved in The Mitchell-Hedges Less than green biofuels Crystal Skull fossils but the soft parts of millions of plants and Crystal Skull invertebrate animals that once existed left no Fuels derived from renewable resources, trace in the fossil record. such as biomass and specifically cultivated fuel The Burgess Shales, discovered in 1909, by Rob McConnell crops are currently being touted as a useful preserved soft tissue in exquisite detail, a fact by Rob McConnell supplement and ultimate replacement for fossil that has confound scientists ever since. Now, Hamilton, Ontario: Believers in the fuels. The underlying principle in addition to painstaking work by the Canadian-UK team power of the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull, their sustainability is that carbon dioxide may have unearthed an answer. The researchers beware! Although it is a truly magnificent produced when biofuels are burned in vehicles published details of their studies in the Journal ancient artifact, who origin and age are and heating systems is ultimately recycled by of the Geological Society and explain how they unknown, the purpose of the artifact is still the very plants which absorb it from the analysed the shales millimetre by millimetre. unknown, on many levels. atmosphere for their growth. In their investigation, the researchers The crystal skull was NOT found in The net result, so proponents claim, found a quite unique geological property of the 1924, 1925, 1926, or 1927 by Anna Mitchell- would be a stabilisation of CO2 emissions as no shales, which might explain their preserving Hedges, the adopted daughter of Mike Mitchell- such recycling effect is seen with fossil fuels. prowess. They found that unlike most rocks of a Hedges. The skull was actually bought by However, while many biofuels will reduce CO2 similar type, the Burgess shales were not slowly Mitchell-Hedges in 1943 at an auction at emissions in this way compared with fossil deposited, mud flake by mud flake. Instead, the Sotheby--s in London, England, from Sidney fuels, researchers suggest that biofuels derived team reasons that the shales were probably Burney. This was confirmed by notes found at from US corn, Brazilian soy and Malaysian formed quickly as a thick slurry powered down the British Museum. palm oil may not be as green as the picture has a steep slope. This mud slide would have buried Other evidence further supports the been painted. instantly myriad animals so deep that the normal discovery that the skull did not take place Writing in the 4th of January issue of the processes by which soft tissue are lost - decay, in during a British Expedition. There are no journal Science, William Laurance and other words - could not occur. The shales thus records or photographs of the crystal skull. postdoctoral colleague Jörn Scharlemann at the froze in a moment in time even the soft tissues. Sidney Burney and others who were on the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) "It's perhaps not a nice way to go," says Gabbott, expedition, claimed from day one, that in Panama, have highlighted a new study that "but it would have been a swift one, and one that Mitchell-Hedges did not find the skull in factors in the total environmental costs of has guaranteed immortality of a sort for these Lubaatun. Mitchell-Hedges himself, according biofuel production. The data examined by strange creatures." [] to friends, family and associates, did not start Laurance and colleagues is part of a report talking about the skull until 1943 after commissioned by the Swiss government and purchasing the skull. authored by Rainer Zah and colleagues at The first time that the Burney Skull was EMPA Materials Science & Technology in mentioned was in 1936. During the lectures, Switzerland. seminars, and speaking engagements that Laurance and Scharlemann are now Mitchell-Hedges gave between from the time he urging governments to be far more selective returned from Lubaatun, until 1943, just prior to about which biofuels they support, as some may the sale of the Burney Skull, he never actually do more harm than the fossil fuels they mentioned it. seek to supplant. Damage to human health and I have discovered that the lost tribe of ecosystems due to the cultivation of vast areas Indians that Mitchell-Hedges claimed to have given over to fuel crops and the fertiliser and discovered, were in fact discovered by Balboa. harvesting fuel requirements of such crops must Mitchell-Hedges never attended Cambridge. be added into the environmental equation the Based on exhaustive research and interviews, researchers believe. Mitchell-Hedges has a very low credibility The pair point out that the study falls In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada rating. short in not considering secondary In Ottawa, Ontario, Canada People Listen To The many references that Mitchell- consequences of biofuels, such as rising food People Listen To Hedges had made about the bad luck or the costs, but affirm that it is a big step forward in The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show willing of people to death by the crystal skull allowing us to compare the environmental with with have been found to be the figments of his own benefits and costs of dozens of different Rob McConnell very colorful and vivid imagination. There is no biofuels. "Different biofuels vary enormously in Rob McConnell on scientific proof whatsoever that the crystal skull how eco-friendly they are," explains Laurance, on has been responsible for any harm falling on a "We need to be smart and promote the right AM 580 CFRA AM 580 CFRA person or any miraculous healing or other biofuels, or we won't be helping the miracle. environment much at all." I find it very strange and fascinating that while I have been studying the skulls which T Timeless puzzle solved imeless puzzle solved have been found throughout the world for a number of many years, I have answers for almost none of the important questions about Canadian and UK geologists have the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull. Although revealed one of the inner secrets of rocks half a there are set or "stock" answers for many of the billion years old that harbour one of the most questions which are constantly being asked, I important fossil beds in the world - the Burgess cannot honestly say that anyone knows with any Shales in the Canadian Rockies - in which even degree of certainty who made the skull, how it soft tissues have been fossilized. was made, when it was made or what purpose it These rocks once formed an ancient sea actually served. [] bed that teemed with life during the Cambrian explosion, a time during which life's diversity The ‘X’ Zone Websites exploded. Now, Sarah Gabbott and Jan The ‘X’ Zone Websites Zalasiewicz of the University of Leicester www.xzoneradio.com working with Desmond Collins of the Royal www.xzoneradio.com Ontario Museum have figured out how the www.xzonetv.com Burgess Shales so successfully preserved the www.xzonetv.com www.xzonestore.com soft parts of ancient animals that are usually lost www.xzonestore.com during the process of fossilization. Bones, teeth,