An ancient seabed emerges from a cleaned limestone
slab (Image courtesy of The Trustees of the Natural
History Museum, London.
Joel Kontinen
Researcher have found perhaps
tens of thousands of marine invertebrates called echinoderms — meaning
"hedgehog skin" in Greek, and including the ancient ancestors of
modern starfish, sea cucumbers, sea urchins and
frilly-limbed sea lilies — immaculately preserved at all stages of their life cycles,
the researchers said in a statement.
They were found beneath
a limestone quarry in the U.K.'s Cotswolds region.
According to evolutionists, the site dates to the middle Jurassic period, roughly 200 million to 145 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the world.
Source:
Specktor, Brandon, 2021, Enormous graveyard
of alien-like sea creatures discovered at 'Jurassic Pompeii' in central UK Live Science 29 July,
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