Terra

The erosion patterns on the Sphinx enclosure are consistent with prolonged water flow, not wind and sand. Geologically, this suggests heavy rainfall - but Egypt hasn't had such rainfall in 7,000-10,000 years. That predates the accepted construction date by millennia.

Monica Gagliano's research at the University of Western Australia demonstrated that Mimosa pudica plants can learn and remember. After repeated harmless drops, the plants stopped folding their leaves — and retained this learned behavior for 28 days. Learning without neurons. Memory without a brain. This challenges every assumption about the substrate consciousness requires.