"500 million-year-old " fossils have stunningly preserved nervous systems

Image courtesy of Ortega-Hernández et al. 2022, Nature Communications. 

Joel Kontinen

Scientist have found nerve tissue within a small fossil. According to evolution, the creature lived in the Cambrian rock layers.  

It was called Mollisonia symmetrica.  Two of them were found.. One  of them is just 0.5 inches (13 millimeters) long and 0.1 inches (3.5 mm) wide at its widest point, the other is  0.3 inches (7.5 mm) long and 0.06 inches (1.7 mm) tall. 

The researcher say that it was just difficult to find so small creatures from around 500 million years ago. And they don’t know where to put the creature in the evolutionary tree. 

Source:

Lanese, Nicoletta. 2022. 500 million-year-old, bug-like fossils have stunningly preserved nervous systems, Live Science 28 January, 

It is winter in Greece and Turkey

 

Image courtesy of (AP/EmrahGurel).

Joel Kontinen

Greece and Turkey have experienced their winter that is expected in the North of Europe.

It is cold in Athens and Istanbul, It has dropped more than 80 centimetres or 31 inches of snow in some areas. A homeless man in Thessaloniki had died and authorities recovered the body a 34-year-old who is believed to have died in heavy snowfall while trying to reach his village in Amasya province, 326 kilometres (202 miles) northwest of Ankara.

Temperatures dropped way below freezing in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia. In Bosnia, ice formed on the Miljacka River after a minus 15 C (5 F)temperature was recorded in the capital of Sarajevo on Tuesday.

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Associated Press. 2022, Winter storm heads towards Israel after paralyzing Turkey and Greece World Israel News 25 January. 

Largest ever fish colony found under the Antarctic ice

 

Image courtesy of Alfred Wegener Institute / PS124 AWI OFOBS team.

Joel Kontinen

Researchers have found a large fish colony in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. It covers 240 square kilometres.

It is a largest colony of fish in the world.

”Autun Purser at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany and his colleagues discovered the breeding ground by chance when they went on a six-week expedition to the polar region in February 2021.”

“It looked computer generated how structured these nests were,” says Purser. Each nest had one adult fish and about 1500 to 2000 eggs. “We don’t know how long they take before they hatch or even how many will survive,” he says.

Yes, Antarctica was believed to be destitute of all animals except for penguins on some shores, but when God has put animals iin extraordinary places, we cannot but bow down in amazement.  

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Murugesu, Jason Arunn. 2022, Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under ice. New Scientist. 13 January,

Does Israel Occupy the West Bank?

Joel Kontinen

Arabs will not approve Israel. They say it is just a coloniser. But they have not taken its history as fact.

According to evolution, Mars may have had a liquid water ocean 3 billion years ago

 

Image courtesy of NASA / USGS / ESA / DLR / FU Berlin (G. Neukum).

Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, Mars may have had a liquid water ocean 3 billion years ago, The research shows that there is strong geological evidence that Mars once had an ocean, such as ancient shorelines/

“Now, Frédéric Schmidt at the University of Paris-Saclay in France and his colleagues have found that a liquid ocean could have existed with an above water temperature of just below freezing. In this scenario, the ocean is kept warm enough to remain liquid by water circulation that could give it a temperature of around 4.5°C. “

This history of the delta’s geology provides context for the rest of the mission and improves our understanding of Mars’ ancient climate.

Now, Science has included a story of how the discovery was made. They believe that water played a  mayor role in the red planet. 

One of the most interesting aspects of Perseverance’s work is choosing a selection of rocks that might contain traces of ancient life and preparing them for a return journey to Earth”  “

And it is” choosing a selection of rocks that might contain traces of ancient life and preparing them for a return journey to Earth."

God created Earth to teem with various kinds of life, but as far as we know, there’s none on Mars.

Source:

Wilkins, Alex. 2022. Ancient Mars may have had a liquid ocean despite freezing temperatures New Scientist.  17 January. 

Strange shapes on Lake Michigan

 

Image courtesy of Terri Abbott.

Joel Kontinen

The sandy statues made on the shore by Lake Michigan at like it was a different planet. Two nature photographers saw what happened and posted their images for us all.

Terri Abbott, a nature photographer who lives in northern Indianawas visiting Tiscornia Park in St. Joseph, Michigan on Janary 8, when she noticed the stunning shapes on the snowy beach.

Intelligent design was not shown in the sculptures. Their shape “depends on several factors, including sand-to-water content and wind conditions, said Daniel Bonn, a physicist and head of the van der Waals-Zeeman Institute at the University of Amsterdam.”

Source:

Geggel, Laura. 2022. Weird sand 'chess pieces' dot Lake Michigan shore. Here's how they formed. Live Science, 9 January. 

According to evolution, these birds have been singing the same song for a million years

 

Image courtesy of Nigel Voaden,  CC BY-SA 2.0,

 

Joel Kontinen

 

Evolutionists have stretched the history of wild live to centuries. For example, one millionyears ago, "the soundtrack of the "sky island" mountains of East Africa may have been very similar to what it is today. That's because a group of tiny, colourful birds has been singing the exact same tunes for more than 500,000 years — and maybe as long as 1 million years, according to a new study.

Sunbirds in the family Nectariniidae are colourful, tiny, nectar-feeding birds that resemble hummingbirds and are common throughout Africa and Asia. They are the ‘little jewels that appear before you’, senior author Rauri Bowie, a professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a curator in the school's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, said in a statement. "

Bowie and his team recorded the songs of these birds, they found out that the isolated populations still sing the same songs

While evolutionists suppose that mountain birds in the Northern Hemisphere change, the mountains of East Africa have seen very little geological change and thus did not have to change,

Source:

Saplakoglu , Yasemin. 2022. These birds have been singing the same songs for literally a million years Live Science. 14 January.