Wednesday 13 October 2021

Old Tardigrade found in amber

 

Image courtesy of Holly Sullivan.

Joel Kontinen .

Evolutionist think that they have found a fossil tardigrade that hails from 16 million years  ago, , They have discovered  it in amber.

Tardigrades are also known as water bears or moss piglets.  They are famous for their  survival skills.

As reported in the in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesthe newly discover tardigrate was found in theDominican Republic, they are taught to be from theMiocene epoch  (23 million to 5.3 million years ago9 and are very well prseserved

Tardigrates are of living fossils. They were first reported in the Cambrian  strata “530 million years” ago, which means that evolutionists see them as one of the oldest kinds of living fossils.

Source:

Lanese Nicolettatt. 2021, Tardigrade trapped in amber is a never-before-seen species, Live Science . 6 October,