Professor Robert Hart, a former lecturer of the University of Missouri that had been Phoebe's guide in Archeology and identifying ancients objects and even biological substances like remains of living things. Even with a piece of bone he can make a non-digital research on it and identify vividly what kind of organism it is and give a detail about it. Professor Hart was seen as "man of knowledge, master of all" and has been a coach to Phoebe on her work with the CRM.
Phoebe visited Professor Robert Hart the next day after the discovery of the bones in South Carolina. She took a three hours journey from South Carolina to Iowa where Professor Robert Hart had a bookshop. It was about an hour after the midday when Phoebe came to see Professor Hart. The bookshelf was a large one with varieties of books, and at all the bookshelves there was not a single space because books had filled every area of it. Ranging from novels and drama of different genre to poetic writings, subject matters, ancient and historical books, scientific journals, theological manuscript and others. She had never known before that Professor Hart had a bookshelf of such size. She wasn't so shocked anyways, because she knew Professor Hart had the spirit of always knowing more. And she knew about his love for books, when Professor Hart sits down to read he can read and forget to take his lunch and dinner, sometimes he reads and fall asleep, going to bed without dinner.
As Phoebe came in she saw a young boy, he looked to be around his early twenties was in charge of the book sales. Phoebe went to meet him where he stood behind a large table.
"I am looking for Professor Robert Hart."
"Prof? You mean Robert?" The young boy said wondering how the Robert Hart he knew, that sells the books is referred to as a professor.
"Yes, Robert Hart."
"Phoebe!" A voice called out from inside the bookstore. Phoebe turned to see who it was, it was Professor Robert Hart.
"Why was your employee surprised when I called you Professor, did you hide that from him?"
"Yeah. I acted as an average bookseller who may not had even had a degree. He knew nothing about me except being a book seller." He sat down behind his study table, "so what brought you all the way from South Carolina to Missouri to see me?"
Phoebe rused and took a seat. "Professor, there was something we discovered in South Carolina, Something that even most scientists cannot explain. We saw the relic of an animal that looks a dinosaur but it isn't. Something never known or seen before" she brought out large pictures from her backpack and dropped on Professor Hart's table.
Professor Hart was quiet for some seconds and looked at the pictures, he sighed. "This is not a dinosaur. And it looks like it have been in existence beyond the Mesozoic era." He paused for a second, and rushed to his shelf that is within his office, and searched through the shelves, when he reached the middle shelf he saw a medium size book, he slid it down from the shelf and took it to his table.
"Have you guys dated the remains?"
"Yes, it was dated to be about 15 million years ago."
"Thats the Miocene era of the Cenozioc epoch. So this was during the continent drift, and it isn't a dinosaur because the dinosaur had been extinct before then." He opened the book and ran through the pages and stopped at a page. "Look, these are all the mammals found on the Miocene era" he brought the book closer to Phoebe.
She went through the pages, there were a lot of mammals that are not in existence in the twenty first century. "None of these match the animal we saw."
I think they didn't published all of them, maybe they didn't search wide enough" Phoebe said.
"This is not a book compiled by one zoologist, it was gotten by the entire zoologists and evolutionary scientists of the world. And they were sure that these were all the mammals found in the Miocene era. And you could see it covers above sixty pages."
"Or maybe" Hart continued. "We googled it out. I'll snap the image and search on the internet to see what information the internet have about it." He picked up his cell phone and took a photo of the pictures of the strange animal remains. And he also took photos of the assembled part and full figure of the animal. He surfed through the internet on it and the internet responded with "No match found "
Phoebe was confused, how in the world can such specie could be unknown when every other organism that were before the Miocene era was known. The mammoths, the sabre-toothed tigers, even the dinosaurs were known but why was the specie they had found seem as if it hadn't been known.
"That's how it seems. Maybe it hasn't been discovered yet, and this is your chance to prove it. But before then you have to make a digital anatomic examination on it."
"We have done that. That's where we study the morphology of each parts and their resemblance to other species" Phoebe said.
"I mean an intensive experiment. Not just on the outer parts but in the inner parts, with the structures that you have seen you can ascertain the kind of organism it is and what qualities it possesses."
"How is that possible?" Phoebe asked. She couldn't understand a thing of what Professor Hart had just said.
Professor Hart looked at Phoebe for some seconds and sighed. "Get me the pictures again." She gave him the pictures of the species remains.
"Select out the assembled image of the skull." She searched through all the photos, and found an image where some bone remains of the organism were assembled.
"I know this would be hard for you to get in but you have to pay attention and follow me as I examine and explain" Professor Hart said.
"Look at the shape of the cranium from the inside. If you invert it you will find out that the inner of the cranium can determine the shape of the brain. With the shape and imprints of the brain we can determine the size of the cerebrum, cerebellum, midbrain, thallus and hypothalamus. And this is important enough to ascertain the level of intelligence and coordination of this organism" Professor Hart explained.
"Is this specie erect?" Professor Hart asked.
"Yes. And that's the confusion we're facing in identifying this specie."
"What's the height of it?"
"We didn't get it's complete remains, but by examining the little we have, I think it will be two times, the height of an average human" Phoebe said.
"Did you get the X-ray image of the brain from the radioactive scanning of the scanning remains?"
"Yes, we did but we didn't get a clear report of it. It looks like the average brain of the mammalian animals."
Professor Hart laughed, "Average brain of a mammalian animal? Is there anything like that? Don't be a clown, no specie has the same brain. At least there must be one percent difference in each and every specie brain. There must be difference in the size, composition, quality and quantities of minerals found in the brain. Difference in nervous coordinator, in every aspect and in every form..."
Phoebe jumped in and chorused with him, "There is always a variability in every individual organism and there is always a similarity in all of them." She smiled at him, "You are never tired of saying that."
"Well I say a lot of things, depending on the what I'm facing at the moment" Professor Hart grinned. "There's always a dual nature in everything."
"Alright let's see the radiograph image of the brain" Professor Hart said as he switched his mood immediately from being comical to a serious composure.
"Look at the image, the cerebrum of this animal is more than that of a human in Mass. It has a four cerebral hemisphere, but you never knew." Phoebe hearing this was shocked, she looked closely at the image, narrow her eyes and paid close attention to see if she could be able view any compartment in the brain.
"I can't see any compartment other than the two cerebral hemisphere."
"Don't look from the face of the brain, look around the sides" Professor Hart said. "And take this" he gave her a magnifying glass.
As she looked at the sides of the brain, she found a very thin but deeper separation line that run straight from the right side of the brain and ends at the cerebral hemisphere line. She also turned to the other side and found the same, but the lines were so thin that even the thinnest fold line in human palm is more visible than it. And the folds in the brains were more visible than the thin hemisphere lines.
"Jesus!" Phoebe exclaimed and quickly turned to Professor Hart. "How did you see that without the magnifying glass? Professor! I still finds it hard to believe you are a human!" she said in shock.
Professor Hart folds his hands to his chest and leaned by the bookshelf, "So what did how many hemisphere did you see?"
"Four. Two visible ones and two thin ones." Phoebe was confused, she turned back to the image. "Have there been anything like that before?"
"Now's just the first time I'm seeing this, because there had never been an organism or any living thing that possesses brain having four cerebral hemisphere. This is something different from the species that has ever tread upon the Earth."
Phoebe smiled "Well, I think this is where my research begins."