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‘Now That’s a Mystery!’ (2016)

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UAE steals endangered trees from Yemen's Socotra – Middle East Monitor

Even the trees look funny there.

Socotra is an island in the middle of the Arabian Sea, hundreds of miles from the nearest land.

So how did a lot of ultra-primitive stone tools get there? Who brought them? And where did they go?

Now That’s a Mystery!

I’m not trying to sell you any particular version of history. The stone tools have been found on Socotra. Whose were they, and how did they get there? (I’m sure I’d have heard of it if they’d found fossil cavemen, or any other sign of ridiculously ancient human settlement.) How do we account for this?

Or don’t we?

 

‘Now That’s a Mystery!’ (2016)

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The place has got funny trees, too.

Socotra Island, in the Arabian Sea, is over 200 miles from the nearest land. If you want to get there, you need a boat or a plane. So scientists had a big surprise a couple of years ago when they discovered prehistoric stone tools there.

Now That’s a Mystery!

Not just any stone tools. The oldest kind. The kind scientists say were only made by the most primitive hominids, Homo habilis, a million years ago.

So how did they wind up on Socotra?

The Darwinian model offers no explanation for this. Maybe the scientists had better un-discover the tools.

It takes full-fledged people-people to build a ship capable of going to Socotra. And there’s no getting around that.