Iyo Messel Pit inzvimbo inozivikanwa yeUNESCO World Heritage saiti iri muGermany, inozivikanwa nezvayo kuchengetedzwa kunoshamisa kwemafossils kubva kuEocene epoch anenge mamiriyoni 48 emakore apfuura.
Krister Smith weSenckenberg Research Institute neMuseum muFrankfurt, Germany, naAgustn Scanferla weUniversidad Nacional de La Plata kuArgentina vakatungamira chikwata chenyanzvi kuchiwanikwa chinoshamisa muMessel Pit. Dzidzo yavo, iyo yakabudiswa mumagazini yesayenzi Kusiyana 2020, yakapa humbowo hutsva mukukura kwenyoka. Tsvagiridzo yechikwata inoburitsa yakasarudzika fossil yenyoka ine infrared muono, zvichitungamira kunzwisiso kutsva ye ecosystem yekare.
Maererano neongororo yavo, nyoka yaimbonzi Palaeopython fischeri inhengo yerudzi rwakatsakatika rwe constrictor (inowanzozivikanwa seboas kana boids) uye inokwanisa kugadzira infrared mufananidzo wezvakaipoteredza. Muna 2004, Stephan Schaal akatumidza nyoka iyi zita reaimbova gurukota reGerman, Joschka Fischer. Sezvo ongororo yesainzi yakaratidza kuti genus iyi yaiumba dzinza rakasiyana, muna 2020, yakazopihwazve serudzi rutsva. Eoconstrictor, iyo yakabatana neSouth America boas.
Mapfupa akazara enyoka haawanzo kuwanikwa munzvimbo dzezvicherwa pasi rose. Panyaya iyi, iyo Messel Gomba UNESCO World Heritage Site padhuze neDarmstadt inosiyana. "Kusvika pari zvino, mhando ina dzenyoka dzakanyatsochengetedzwa dzinogona kutsanangurwa kubva mugomba reMessel," akatsanangura Dr. Krister Smith weSenckenberg Research Institute uye Natural History Museum, uye akaenderera mberi achiti, “Nehurefu hweanenge masendimita 50, maviri emarudzi aya akanga ari maduku zvikuru; mhando yaimbozivikanwa sePalaeopython fischer, kune rumwe rutivi, inogona kusvika kureba inopfuura mamita maviri. Kunyange zvazvo yakanga iri yepasi, zvichida yaikwanisawo kukwira mumiti.”
Ongororo yakazara ye Eoconstrictor fischeri's neural circuits yakaratidza chimwezve chinoshamisa. Maneural circuits enyoka yeMessel akafanana neazvino ma big boas and python - nyoka dzine nhengo dzegomba. Nhengo idzi, dzakaiswa pakati pemapureti eshaya dzepamusoro nedzezasi, dzinogonesa nyoka kugadzira mepu ine mativi matatu-dimensional yekupisa yenzvimbo yadzo nekusanganisa chiedza chinooneka nemwaranzi ye infrared. Izvi zvinobvumira zvinokambaira kuti zviwane mhuka dzakapambwa, zvikara, kana nzvimbo dzakavanda zviri nyore.
Zvisinei, in Eoconstrictor fischeri nhengo idzi dzaivepo pashaya yekumusoro chete. Uyezve, hapana humbowo hunoratidza kuti nyoka iyi yaifarira mhuka ine ropa rinodziya. Kusvika ikozvino, vaongorori vaingokwanisa kusimbisa mhuka dzinotonhora dzine ropa senge makarwe nemadzvinyu mudumbu mayo uye mukati memukati.
Nekuda kweizvi, boka revaongorori rinosvika pamhedzisiro yekuti nhengo dzekutanga dzegomba dzakashanda kuvandudza ruzivo rwenyoka mune zvese, uye kuti, kunze kwezvino constrictor nyoka, hadzina kunyanya kushandiswa pakuvhima kana kudzivirira.
Kuwanikwa kwe zvisaririra zvekare zvakachengetedzwa zvakanaka nyoka ine infrared vision inopa chiedza chitsva pakusiyana-siyana kwezvipenyu zveiyi ecosystem makore anopfuura mamirioni makumi mana nemasere apfuura. Ichi chidzidzo muenzaniso unoshamisa wekuti tsvakiridzo yesainzi mupaleontology inogona kuwedzera kukosha pakunzwisisa kwedu zvisikwa uye kushanduka kwehupenyu paPasi.
