Frank Joseph - Our Dolphin Ancestors: Keepers of Lost Knowledge and Healing Wisdom

DOLPHIN ANCESTORS

For years we have been hoping that a book on the subject of human/dolphin kinship would be written by someone with the credentials to treat this special relationship with our aquatic cousins with the seriousness the subject requires. Frank Joseph has produced a masterful treatment of this ancient family bond between dolphin and human that will intrigue, provoke, and satisfy the most exacting critic of the challenging aquatic ape theory that links our species as one.

BRAD AND SHERRY STEIGER, AUTHORS OF
REAL VISITORS, VOICES FROM BEYOND,
AND PARALLEL DIMENSIONS

A meticulously researched investigation of dolphins, with reference to ancient and modern encounters, that offers an exciting possibility for the future survival of humanity and the planet.

DAVID JONES,
EDITOR OF NEW DAWN MAGAZINE

Renowned author Frank Josephs newest probe into Earths ancient mysteries uncovers a major connection between people and dolphins, something that people close to the sea have often observed in myth and legend. He looks deeply into our common origins and into startling physiological features that we share uniquely. His amazing description of how dolphins can communicate and even heal people demonstrates the interconnectedness and interdependence of life, which humanity is only now beginning to grasp.

VON BRASCHLER,
AUTHOR OF 7 SECRETS OF TIME TRAVEL

The amazing Frank Joseph reveals an entirely new link between dolphins and humans and raises questions that, if answered, could resolve some of the most deadly problems on this beleaguered planet and just might save our profoundly troubled species. This book is a truly unforgettable journey.

JEFF RENSE,
SYNDICATED NATIONAL TALK SHOW HOST

Mesmerizing as the dolphins themselves! Only Frank Joseph, with his expansive global knowledge of history and true origins, could bring this masterpiece together. It is so well researched that it truly calls for a re-education of the public. I was captivated!

DIANA PALM,
AUTHOR OF SETTING SPIRITS FREE

Joseph explains our biological characteristics that support an early aquatic phase of human development as an aquatic ape. The facts are convincing, evolutionary theory is correctly applied, and the implications are fascinating. This thesis deserves media exposure and inclusion in academic curricula.

JAY STUART WAKEFIELD,
BIOLOGIST AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCHER

INTRODUCTION

The Eye of the Dolphin

Its the dolphins eyes that get me. Theyre full of wisdom. Its like theyre looking straight at your soul, and know everything about you. I think they can tune into you and your problems. I think theyre a sophisticated animal that is further up the evolutionary ladder.

ADRIAN HARRIS, REPORTER FOR
THE BRISBANE JOURNAL

In December 2013, my wife, Laura, and I were aboard a 55,819ton cruise ship, sailing through the Gulf of Mexico from Key West, Floridathe southernmost landfall in the United Statesto Honduras. MS Ryndams position was just above the Tropic of Cancer, as we were having breakfast, seated on the eleventh deck, which rose 110 or more feet above the waterline. The morning was bright and cloudless, and we both happened to be looking down along the starboard side as it cut rapidly through the sea, when into our line of sight swam an exceptionally large fish, as much unusual for its great size as its vivid color.

The animal was a remarkably bright, brilliant green from snout to tail tip, as though electrically illuminated. Although it resembled a typical shark in its lazy side-to-side movement and body configuration from midsection to tail fin, its head and foreparts were unusually broad. Our Dutch cruise ship was then steaming all ahead full at twenty-two knots (twenty-five miles per hour), churning up a powerfully turbulent wake, but the creature swam into it, skimming beneath the surface (its dorsal fin cut just above the water), a few feet from the Ryndam. It swam with an easy motion for perhaps five seconds before slowly swimming away.

Judging from the creatures proximity to passenger quarters below decks, we conservatively estimated that it stretched the breadth of at least two staterooms, about forty feet. Due to our lofty perspective, however, we may have guessed far short of the beasts actual overall length.

Returning home a week later, I found reference on the Internet to the specimen we saw December 10. Scyliorhinus retifer, known as the chain dogfish or chain catshark, is unusually bright green because it is bioluminescent. In other words, the surface of its skin produces light when fluorophoresfluorescent chemical compounds that absorb light energy of a specific wavelength and reemit it at a longer wavelengthare stimulated by an external light source to produce a fluorescent effect.

Humans cannot visually detect the process, but we can see the photons changed energy state, which appears as a different color of the visible light spectrum than the color of the external light source.

Just how certain fish evolved biofluorescence and what purpose it serves them are questions not easily answered. The second such shark recorded was fluorescent and filmed for the first time during August 2005; it glowed a brilliant green.

But the chain dogfish grows less than two feet in length, is covered with spots, and possesses a body shape mostly unlike the massive, forty-or-more-foot-long monster we observed in the Caribbean. What we saw appears to have been similarly biofluorescent, but entirely so, and therefore could not have been Scyliorhinus retifer. Continuing my Internet investigation, I was surprised to find images of the whale shark (), because it more closely resembled our sighting. Whale sharks are the oceans largest fishes, reaching lengths in excess of fifty feet, and their head and foreparts are identical to the configuration Laura and I observed. Moreover, they feature widely spaced biofluorescent spots, but their surface skin is mostly very dark, not overall vibrant green.

I was interested in learning the opinion of my zoologist friend and experienced mariner, Jay Wakefield, who agreed that the sea beast we saw must have been a common whaleshark that only seemed thoroughly green to us because the play of light on the blue water over the animals fluorophores made it appear to be one solid color. Marine biologists do not admit the existence of thoroughly bioluminescent whale sharks.

But Jays theory did not sit well with either of us. We distinctly remember the uniformly luminous green of the immense creature. Twenty years before, I was in clear, shallow water with large sharks off the Bahamian island of Bimini, where they were most distinctly gray and dark brown. We are inclined to conclude, expert scientific opinion aside, that Laura and I witnessed an unknown creature, an entirely bioluminescent whale shark.

Such an accidental discovery, while thrilling, is not all that unusual. The catastrophic tsunami that rampaged throughout Indonesia in 2004 washed ashore dozens of specimens new to science. So did northern Japans tsunami, just seven years later. Public markets at the mouth of South Americas Amazon River collect numbers of unknown fish, crustacean, and squid species every week. The seas potential for mystery is as deep as the ocean itself and deeper, it would appear, than current understanding of life beneath the surface. As the British geneticist and evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane (18921964) states, the world is not only stranger than we imagine; it is far stranger than we can imagine.