FOSSIL SPECIMENS DISCOVERED
IN CHINA, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
FOSSIL SPECIMENS DISCOVERED IN CHINA
Various mountain formations occupy an important place in the geological
history of Asia. The Himalayas are some of the world's youngest mountains,
and the large numbers of marine invertebrate fossils discovered on the
feet of the Himalayas show that these strata were once covered in water.
The Asian continent's most important fossil beds lie in China. Those
in the West Liaoning, Yunnan and Shandong regions are the richest in
China. A large number of fossils of bird species, mammals, amphibians,
reptiles, fish, insects and plants have been obtained from these regions.
Once again, every fossil proves that living things never underwent any
process of evolution and reveals the evident nature of God's creation.
Special fauna (animals belonging to a particular region or period) have
been identified in the Yixian and Jiufotang formations in the Liaoning
region. Both Formations contain fossils largely dating from the Cretaceous
Period (146 to 65 million years ago).
The Chengjiang Formation in the Yunnan region is exceedingly important in showing the variety of life in the Cambrian Period (543 to 490 million years ago). In this formation are found a large number of fossil species such as seaweeds, anemones, sponges, trilobites, other trilobite-like arthropods, annelids and other varieties of worm—more fossils that deal a lethal blow to the theory of evolution. They show that living things that emerged in the Cambrian possessed various complex features, closely resembled modern-day life forms, and sometimes possessed even more privileged, specialized characteristics. This undermines all the claims made by evolutionists to the effect that present-day life forms evolved from supposedly primitive living things.
The fossil excavations made in Beipiao. Some flowered plant fossils found in this region are the oldest.
Next: one of the rock layers in Liaoning contains fossils.
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(at the top) Following the researches made in the Liaoning fossil area, many samples were uncovered that invalidate the theory of evolution. One of the rock strata is pictured.
(bottom) One of the fossil areas in Yunnan.
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MAYFLY
Age: 125 million years old
Size: 20 millimeters (0.8 in); matrix: 118 millimeters (4.6
in) by 68 millimeters (2.7 in)
Location: Chao Yang, Liaoning Province of China
Formation: Yixian Formation
Period: Lower Cretaceous
This fossil mayfly pictured is an example of a living fossil.
This 125-million-year-old specimen, identical with the modern-day
mayflies, invalidates the evolutionists' claims. |
SCORPION FLY (left)
Age: 125 million years old
Size: Wings, 19 millimeters (0.8 in); matrix: 75 millimeters (3 in) by 95 millimeters
(3.7 in)
Location: Chao Yang, Liaoning Province of China
Formation: Yixian Formation
Period: Lower Cretaceous
The scorpion fly is a small insect with an average wing length of 50 millimeters
(2 in). Due to the organ in its abdomen resembling a scorpion's stinger, it is
nicknamed the "scorpion fly."
The fossil pictured is 125 million years old. Scorpion flies of 125 million years
ago are no different from those alive today. This clearly shows that like all
other living creatures, scorpion flies have not evolved.
CRANEFLY (right)
Age: 128 million years old
Size: 12 millimeters (0.5 in); wings 9 millimeters (0.4 in); matrix: 72 millimeters
(2.8 in) by 48 millimeters (1.9 in)
Location: Chao Yang, Liaoning Province of China
Formation: Yixian Formation
Period: Lower Cretaceous
A cranefly, resembling a giant gnat or mosquito, has a structure very different
from true gnats. Its major feature is its quite long legs, generally twice as
long as its body.
As all other living creatures, craneflies appear as fossils with structures identical
to those of our day. That no difference exists between today's craneflies and
those of millions of years ago proves that living beings never evolved.
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FROGHOPPER
Age: 125 million years old
Size: 23 millimeters (0.9 in); matrix: 80 millimeters (3.2
in) by 80 millimeters (3.2 in)
Location: Chao Yang, Liaoning Province of China
Formation: Yixian Formation
Period: Lower Cretaceous
The larvae of a froghopper, which is classified in the family Cercopidae, are enveloped in a protective frothy secretion.
There exists no difference between modern froghoppers and those
that lived millions of years ago. Despite millions of years
that have passed, these insects remain the same, manifesting
that living beings have not undergone evolution. |
PLANTHOPPER
Age: 125 million years old
Size: 17 millimeters (0.7 in); matrix: 60 millimeters (2.4
in) by 46 millimeters (1.8 in)
Location: Chao Yang, Liaoning Province
Formation: Yixian Formation
Period: Lower Cretaceous
The adults of these plant-feeding insects are of two different
species. One can fly, while the other cannot. The structures
of these two species have not changed for millions of years.
All the complex structures and systems of today's insects were
also possessed by planthoppers living millions of years ago.
During all those millions of years, these features have remained
the same, indicating that the evolutionary process claimed
by Darwinists never took place. |
FUNGUS GNAT
Age: 128 million years old
Size: 8 millimeters (0.3 in) long with wings of 5 millimeters
(0.2 in); matrix: 77 millimeters (3 in) by 50 millimeters (2
in)
Location: Chao Yang, Liaoning Province
Formation: Yixian Formation
Period: Lower Cretaceous
Fungus gnats belonging to the Sciaridae family live
especially in damp places, preferring lower parts of plants
that are closer to soil.
The fossil fungus gnat pictured is 128 million years old. Fungus
gnats that lived millions of years ago are just as those of
our day. Fossil records show that fungus gnats have always
remained the same, refuting the claim that they evolved from
other living beings. |
SALAMANDER
Age: 125 million years old
Size: salamander: 11 centimeters (4.3 in) by 6 centimeters
(2.4 in) long; matrix: 29.6 centimeters (11.7 in)
Location: Huludao City, Liaoning Province
Formation: Jiufotang Formation
Period: Lower Cretaceous
This fossil salamander uncovered in China is the world's oldest
known salamander. As a result of some sudden volcanic eruption,
fossil remains are often very well preserved under a layer
of ash, so well that it is even possible to detect some of
their soft tissues and the last food they ate.
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STURGEON
Age: 144 to 127 million years old
Size: 48 centimeters (19 in)
Location: Sihetun, Beipiao City, Liaoning Province
Formation: Jiulongsong Member,
Chaomidianzi Formation (Jehol Group)
So far, no one has found an intermediate link to prove the so-called evolution of living creatures. This is also true for the so-called "evolution" of fish. All different classes of fish appear suddenly in the fossil record, and without any ancestors. There are hundreds of thousands of invertebrate fossils, hundreds of thousands of fish fossils, but not one single intermediate "missing link" fossil. One example showing that fish have always been fish is this 144- to 127-million-year-old fossil sturgeon. |
TURTLE
Age: 146 to 65 million years old
Size: Matrix: 17.5 centimeters (7 in) by 21 centimeters (8.3
in)
Location: Lingyuan, Liaoning Province
Formation: Yixian Formation
Period: Cretaceous
Scientific facts reveal that living creatures have not evolved,
but Darwinists insist on ignoring this. The 146- to 65-million-year-old
turtle fossil pictured, which is identical with the turtles
of our day, once again stresses what Darwinists are reluctant
to see: Living beings have not changed for millions of years.
In other words, they have not evolved. |
MAYFLY
Age: 156 to 150 million years old
Size: body: 3.3 centimeters (1.3 in); matrix: 7.6 centimeters
(3 in) by 10 centimeters (4 in)
Location: Beipiao, Liaoning Province
Period: Upper Jurassic
Like all other insects, mayflies exhibit the same characteristics
and systems they had at the moment they first appeared. Fossils
reveal that mayflies have not gone through any intermediate
stages. Mayflies that lived 156 to 150 million years ago
are the same as those mayflies living today. |
SALAMANDER
Age: 208 to 65 million years old
Size: 4.5 centimeters (1.8 in)
Location: Liaoning Province
Period: Jurassic – Cretaceous
The 208-65-million-year-old fossil salamander pictured shows
that salamanders have existed without changing for millions
of years. This fossil, which is no different from salamanders
today, is evidence that the evolutionary process suggested
by Darwinists has never existed. |
SPIDER
Age: 156 to 150 million years old
Size: 1.5 centimeters (0.6 in) (leg to leg ), 0.7 centimeters
(0.28 in) (body )
Location: Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China
Period: Upper Jurassic
The oldest known fossil spider is of a water spider, 425 million
years old. The fossil pictured is 156 to 150 million years
old. Such fossils show that spiders have been the same for
hundreds of million years. Darwinists have no consistent and
scientific answer for these findings. |
CRAYFISH
Age: 128 million years old
Size: 1.) 109 millimeters (4.3 in) long; matrix: 158 millimeters
(6.2 in) by 165 millimeters (6.5 in),
2.) 109 millimeters (4.3 in) long; matrix: 180 millimeters
(7.1 in) by 160 millimeters (6.3 in)
Location: Lingyuan, Liaoning Province
Formation: Yixian Formation
Period: Lower Cretaceous
Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans resembling lobsters. For
millions of years, they have preserved their structure. The fact
that crayfish of 128 million years ago and those living today
are the same is a situation that Darwinists fail to explain.
Fossils reveal the truth that living creatures are created by
God. |
DRAGONFLY
Age: 156 to 150 million years old
Size: wingspan: 11.4 centimeters (4.5 in); body: 7.6 centimeters
(3 in); matrix:16.5 centimeters (6.5 in) by 13.7 centimeters
(5.4 in)
Location: Beipiao, Liaoning Province
Period: Upper Jurassic
Leading helicopter manufacturers analyze the wing structures
and flight mechanisms of dragonflies while designing their
craft. The dragonfly's advanced flight mechanism that ensures
efficient use of its wing structure also existed 150 million
years ago. Dragonfly fossils that are hundreds of millions
of years old pose an inexplicable situation for Darwinists
and refute Darwinists' claims. |
WOLF SKULL
Age: 20 million years old
Size: 25 centimeters (10 in)
Location: Asia
Period: Miocene
Fossils of mammals also deny evolution. The fossil wolf skull pictured is 20 million years old. Wolves have preserved their structures for 20 million years, proving that the theory of evolution is invalid. |
BIRD
Age: 140 million years
Size: matrix: 16 centimeters ( 6.3 in) by 17 centimeters (6.7
in)
Location: Sihetun Shangyuan, Beipiao City, Liaoning, China
Formation: Yixian Formation
Period: Upper Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous
Various fossil birds found in China are among the evidence
showing that birds have always been birds and that they did
not evolve from any other creature. Darwinists claim that birds
evolved from reptiles, but they lack any evidence to prove
this claim. All fossil specimens gathered over the past 150
years show that evolutionists' claims are entirely groundless.
The 140-million-year-old fossil bird pictured once again proves
this fact. |
JUVENILE TURTLE
Age: 120 million years old
Size: 18 centimeters (7 in)
Location: Sihetun, Shangyuan, Beipiao City, Liaoning Province
Formation: Lower Yixian Formation
Period: Lower Cretaceous
"… the origin of this highly successful order is obscured by the
lack of early fossils, although turtles leave more and better fossil remains
than do other vertebrates. … Intermediates between turtles and cotylosaurs,
... reptiles from which turtles [supposedly] sprang, are entirely lacking." (Encyclopaedia
Britannica Online, "Turtle") |
STURGEON
Age: 156 to 150 million years old
Size: 22 centimeters (8.5 in)
Location: Peipiao, Liaoning Province
Formation: Jiufotang Formation
Period: Upper Jurassic
Sturgeons belong to a class of fish that has 20 different species in Euope, Asia
and North America. They spend most of their lives in seas, and in certain seasons
gather in rivers.
There exists no difference between sturgeons that lived 156 to 150 million years
ago and those alive today. The fossil record reveals that ancestors of fish were
fish, ancestors of birds were birds, and ancestors of human beings were entirely
human. In other words, all living beings appeared with their distinctive and
perfect structures. The Almighty God created them.
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PLANTHOPPER
Age: 156 to 150 million years old
Location: Beipiao, Liaoning Province
Period: Upper Jurassic
Insects whose structures have not changed in 150 million years
totally refute the so-called evolution of living creatures
from primitive to advanced forms. The structures that plant
insects displayed 150 million years ago, 120 million years
ago, and today are all the same. |
CROCODILE
Age: 100 million years old
Size: 76 centimeters (30 in)
Location: Asia
Period: Cretaceous
Crocodiles have left many fossils behind. Their bodies emerged
all of a sudden in flawless form (crocodile fossils date back
140 million years) and have reached the present day without
undergoing any changes. There exists no difference between
the 100-million-year-old crocodile pictured and a counterpart
living today, which stresses this fact once again. |
STURGEON
Age: 130 million years old
Size: 11.6 centimeters (4.6 in)
Location: Liaoning Province
Period: Cretaceous
Sturgeons living 130 million years ago have the same features
as sturgeons that lived 146 million or 120 million years ago,
or those alive today. Despite the passage of millions of years,
sturgeons did not undergo any intermediate stages and thus
refute evolutionists' claims. |
BLACK FISH
Age: 54 to 37 million years old
Size: 10 centimeters (4 in)
Location: Hubei, China
Period: Eocene
This is a fish that still lives along North Atlantic shores.
Like all other living things, fish have remained unchanged
for millions of years—in other words, they have not evolved.
Black fish 54- to -37 million years old are no different from
those of our own day. |
TURTLE
Age: 150 million years old
Location: China
Period: Jurassic
If a living being preserves the same structure it had 150 million
years ago, then this indicates that Darwinists' claim that
living beings evolved gradually during long periods of time
is unscientific. Turtles that remained unchanged over hundreds
of millions of years have not evolved, but were created. |
HYENA SKULL
Age: 10 to 5 million years old
Size: 20 centimeters (8 in)
Location: Gansu Province, China
Period: Upper Miocene
Included in today's Hyaenidae family, there exist
four different types of hyenas. These animals live in clans
of approximately 80 hyenas.
The fossil hyena skull pictured is 10 to 5 million years old
and shows that for millions of years, hyenas have not changed. |
STURGEON
Age: 146 to 65 million years old
Size: 20 centimeters (7.7 in); matrix: 23 centimeters (9
in) by 29 centimeters (11.5 in)
Location: Sihetun, Beipiao City, Liaoning Province
Formation: Jiulongsong Member, Chaomidianzi Formation (Jehol
Group)
Period: Cretaceous
Fossils show that like all other classes of living creatures,
fish also appeared suddenly with all their structures and with
their perfect anatomy. An example is this 146- to 65-million-year-old
fossil sturgeon which is no different from sturgeons in our
own day. |
COCKROACH
Age: 125 million years old
Size: 26 millimeters (1 in); matrix: 85 millimeters (3.3 in)
by 77 millimeters (3 in)
Location: Chao Yang, Liaoning Province
Formation: Yixian Formation
Period: Lower Cretaceous
Insects are arthropods belonging to the Insecta class.
The oldest insect fossils date from the Devonian Period (417
to 354 million years ago). However, during the more recent
Carboniferous Period (354 to 290 million years ago) various
kinds of insects appeared all of a sudden. For instance, cockroaches
appear suddenly complete with the structures they still have
today. Betty Faber of the American Museum of Natural History
says that 350-million-year-old cockroach fossils are identical
with those of today. (M. Kusinitz, Science World,
4 February 1983, p. 1.)
The 125-million-year-old fossil in the picture is evidence that
cockroaches have not evolved for hundreds of millions years. |
MAYFLY LARVA
Age: 156 to 150 million years old
Formation: Yixian Formation
Location: Liaoning Province
Period: Late Jurassic
As short-lived adults, mayflies live only for a few days, and
some even for a few hours. The fossil pictured belongs to a
mayfly larva. Today's mayflies and those that lived 156 to
150 million years ago are no different. |
TIGER SKULL
Age: 20 million years old
Size: 29 centimeters (11.5 in)
Location: Asia
Period: Miocene
The tiger is a mammal of the Felidae family. 80 percent
of the tiger species live in the Indian Peninsula.
The fossil tiger skull in the picture is 20 million years old
and displays the same features as tigers living today. For
millions of years, their bone structure has remained the same,
refuting the theory of evolution. |
RHINO SKULL
Age: 20 million years old
Size: 51 centimeters (20 in)
Location: Asia
Period: Miocene
Rhinos of the Rhinocerotidae family generally live in Africa and Asia,
but have not changed for millions of years. The 20-million-year-old rhino skull
pictured shows that rhinos have remained the same for millions of years.
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MAYFLY LARVA
Age: 156 to 150 million years old
Formation: Yixian Formation
Location: Liaoning Province
Period: Late Jurassic
Mayfly larvae alive today and ones that are 156 to 150 million
years old are the same, showing that evolution is a scenario
not based on science. |
FOSSIL SPECIMENS DISCOVERED IN NEW ZEALAND
The great majority of fossils from New Zealand belong to marine life
forms. A large number of exceedingly well-preserved specimens belong
to various marine phyla. Fossils from the Cretaceous Period are frequently
encountered, together with others—albeit more rarely—from
the Cambrian, Ordovician and Permian periods. In addition to animal fossils,
various plant fossils from the Jurassic Period, extending unchanged right
up to the present day, have also been unearthed.
New Zealand's fossil variety reveals exactly what all other fossil records
reveal. No fossils at all have been discovered that might support the
theory of evolution. All the discoveries show that living things came
into being suddenly, with all their complex structures. In other words,
they were created and remained unchanged for hundreds of millions of
years. They never evolved.
FOSSIL SPECIMENS DISCOVERED IN AUSTRALIA
In Australia there are a large number of fossil fields, some of which
the United Nations regards as historic preservation sites.
Australia and
Antarctica are estimated to have separated from the giant continent of
Gondwanaland some 40 to 30 million years ago. The climatic changes that
subsequently took place over long periods of time are among the events
that led to such large numbers and varieties of fossils in Australia.
The many fossils obtained from the island country's fossil fields are
important in our understanding of species diversity. Riversleigh, Bluff
Downs, Murgon, Lightning Ridge and Naracoorte are some of the best known
of these fossil fields.
A wide range and large number of well-preserved
animals of the Cenozoic Era (65 million years to the present), from small
frogs to kangaroos, have been obtained from these fields. In addition
to these, which provide important information about the history of vertebrates,
fossils of marine life forms dating back to the Paleozoic Era (543 to
251 million years ago) have also been discovered.
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HORSETAIL
Age: 248 to 206 million years
Location: Australia
Period: Triassic
There is not the slightest difference between horsetail that existed some 200 million years ago and those living today. If a living thing has preserved its entire structure for 200 million years, without undergoing the slightest change, then it is impossible to speak of it having evolved. That impossibility applies to all life forms and species. Fossils, which document history of life, refute evolution.
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CRAB
Age: 23 to 5 million years old
Location: New Zealand
Period: Miocene
Evidence that crabs have always been crabs and have not evolved
is this 23- to 5-million-year-old fossil crab. This specimen
and those crabs of our day share the same features, which shows
that these living beings were created by God. |
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