Fossil fruits sand flowering plants flourished in time of dinosaurs

 

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Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, dinosaurs now lived  with flowering plants. This is new, as the standard view of din9saurs was that they only eat each other or some form of cones,

.“Jonathan Birch at the London School of Economics says the study is the first time he has  seen “wanting” and “liking” disentangled in a bee."

“We underestimate insects so much,” he says. “It’s led to a golden age of very charming studies where scientists use modern techniques – sometimes just high-resolution, high-frame-rate video, as in this study – to reveal behaviours people have been missing.”

A wide variety of fruits and seeds that were smothered in the ash from a volcanic eruption nearly 75 million years ago suggest flowering plants were diverse and thriving in the time of the dinosaurs, far earlier than previously known.

Researchers had thought the emergence of large seeds and fruits followed the end-Cretaceous extinction, 66 million years ago, and was tied to the rise of mammals and birds.

“Now, we have evidence that large fruit and seeds and the related ecological conditions can be traced back to 10 million years before the asteroid impact that according to evolution wiped out the dinosaurs,” says Jaemin Lee at the University of California, Berkeley.

The team discovered an extraordinary 77 different kinds of fruits and seeds. Such a ready banquet of nutritious fruit would almost certainly have been eaten by herbivorous dinosaurs and other animals.The first flowering plants emerge in the fossil record 136 million years ago, but, until now, it was thought early forms were mostly small and weedy and vastly different to the range of species that dominate Earth’s forests today.

In Cretaceous deposits elsewhere, the fruit and seeds are roughly the size of a poppy seed on average – far smaller than the blueberry-sized seeds at Jose Creek.

Yes, according to Genesis, flowers and animals were created at the same time.  

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James Woodforg 2026 Fossil fruits show flowering plants flourished in time of dinosaurs | New Scientist 25 June 

Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like

 

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Joel Kontinen

What did the early mammals look like, according to evolution? Some researchers say that the fossils say that they do like their ancestors of all today’s species.

But the fossils have many problems.  Some had said that the ancestor of all whales lived on land and then moved to waters.

“While many dinosaurs and pterosaurs flaunted flamboyant feathers, early mammals were a dull lot. A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they all had greyish-brown fur.

“They were dinosaur food,” says Matthew Shawkey at Ghent University in Belgium. “You didn’t want to be conspicuous.”

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown in colour, which would have helped them hide from dinosaurs.

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Michael Le Page 2025 Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like | New Scientist 13 March 

Fossil claimed to be new species of mosasaur is suspected forgery

 

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Joel Kontinen

Why is a never-before-seen fossil of a marine reptile a forgery? Most of the scientist say so. It is not the first fake in science.

”Remnants of a bizarre “shark-toothed” aquatic predator that lived alongside dinosaurs were probably forged, according to new research.

 The contentious fossil of a jaw fragment was apparently collected by miners working at the Sidi Chennane phosphate mines in Morocco, in rock that is 66 to 72 million years old. Nick Longrich at the University of Bath, UK, and his colleagues analysed the find and classified it as a new species of mosasaur named Xenodens calminechari in 2021.

The fossil possesses highly unusual blade-like teeth similar to those of sharks, which Longrich and his colleagues suggested would help carve up large prey.

Morocco is uniquely rich in mosasaur fossils, says Henry Sharpe at the University of Alberta in Canada. “Miners working in the phosphate mines come across mosasaurs all the time.”

The problem is many people in Morocco make a living selling fossils, says Sharpe. “So many of the mosasaur fossils being sold from Morocco are modified [there] – teeth are added, bones are sculpted, all to make the fossil worth more to sell.”

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 Taylor Mitchell Brown 2025 Fossil claimed to be new species of mosasaur is suspected forgery | New Scientist 16 January 

Newfound T. rex relative was an even bigger apex predator, remarkable skull discovery suggests

 

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Joel Kontinen

Newfound T. rex relative was an even bigger apex predator, remarkable skull discovery suggests

The newly identified tyrannosaur species is the closest known relative of T. rex and could have been even larger than the famous dinosaur king.

Some evolutionists have decided that the dinosaur that is a relative to T. rex could have been even larger than the famous dinosaur king,

A new study shows that Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis, was identified from a partial fossilized skull that paleontologists unearthed in 1983 could have been a bigger relative of T rex.  

It was dated between, between 73 million and 71 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago).

Some scientists are not happy with the results and dinosaurs are not millions of years old.

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Harry Baker. 2024 Newfound T. rex relative was an even bigger apex predator, remarkable skull discovery suggests | Live Science 12 January.

 

Evolutionists discovers oldest mosaraus in America

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Joel Kontinen

”In the rocky gray shale of southern Utah, scientists have unearthed the remains of a mosasaur that roamed a once-thriving sea 94 million years ago.”

This is according to scientist who rely on the Darwinian scale of things.

According to them, it is the oldest mosasaur fossil ever found in North America.

Mosasaurs were marine reptiles who dominated the sea, during the Cretaceous period or 145 million to 66 million years ago.

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Price,  Kiley, 2023, 94 million-year-old fossilized sea monster is the oldest of its kind in North America.  Live Science,  31 June. 

Animals grew in size

 

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Joel Kontinen

According to evolution, when the Cretaceous did away with the dinosaurs, many mammals underwent a rapid increase in size. Several hypothesis have been put forward for this increase in size.

For instance, the in brontotheres, was a large mammal from the from the Eocene that grew in size. 

The researchers think that the increase in body size was caused by a macroevolutionary process of species being sorted. 

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Vignieri,  Sacha,  Growing bigger, Science 12 May. 

The remains of a dinosaur and insects were found together

 

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Joel Kontinen

It is not often that the remains of dinosaurs and beetles were found together. However, this happened when  scientists found battered feathers and prehistoric beetle larvae encased in amber have revealed that stretches back more than 105 million years – the oldest example of symbiosis between dinosaurs and arthropods.

The place of the fond was in Spain. According to evolution, it dates back to the Cretaceous period.  

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 Black, Riley, 2023.  Amber fossils reveal dinosaurs and beetles had symbiotic relationship New Scientist 17April.  

 

The cretaceus extinction did not change evolution

 

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Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists  know that the end-Cretaceous extinction event drove ecological change and species turnover in terrestrial systems,.  But if they believe in evolution, they know less about how this event may have altered marine systems.

“Guinot and Condamine looked at a large database of elasmobranch (sharks, skates, and rays) fossils to test for changes that may have occurred in marine ecosystems at the end of the Cretaceous. They found substantial loss of species, especially those that fed on shelled prey and those on the ocean bottom. Pelagic species and those at higher latitudes had higher survival, showing that differential species survival shaped marine systems across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary,  ”

This research does not take into account what really happened millions of years ago, only that that sharks, skates and rays were numerous in the bygone days.  

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Source: Vignieri , Sacha. 2023. A major marine shift.  Science 24 Febraury.  

Ancient virus lurking in us

 

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Joel Kontinen

Evolutionist claim that around 106 million years ago, the DNA of a virus that is, the early Cretaceous period, somehow got integrated into the genome of one of our mammal ancestors.

According to evolution, two million years later, something similar happened again with a closely related virus. Now, the ancient remnants of those viruses have been found inside our cells.

But the dates of the viruss are wrong.

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Le Page, Michael. 2022. 106-million-year-old virus found ‘fossilised’ in the human genome NewScientist 18 February. 

Two new dinosaurs found on the Isle of Wight in the UK

 

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Joel Kontinen 

Two new species of dinosaurs have been found on the Isle of Wight in the UK. They were though to be 125 million years ago.living in the Cretaceous Period. 

 “The only spinosaurid skeleton previously unearthed in the UK belonged to Baryonyx, which was initially discovered in 1983 in a quarry in Surrey. Most other finds since have been restricted to isolated teeth and single bones. “

 One species has been called Ceratosuchops inferodios “hell heron”, as it looks like a fearsome version of a modern bird, The second is Riparovenator milnerae.

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 'New Scientist and Press Association. 2021. .Hell heron' dinosaur is new species found on Isle of Wight. New Scientist 29 September 

Tarantulas were Cretaceous animals

 

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Joel Kontinen 

Some animals are ancient, Take the tarantulas, which are found in homes all over the world.

The  researchers found that tarantulas are ancient, first emerging in the piece of land now considered the Americas about 120 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. At that time South America would have been attached to Africa, India and Australia as part of the Gondwana supercontinent. The spiders ultimately reached their present destinations due to rift continental drift, with a few interesting departures.

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Jocelyn Duffy, Carnegie Mellon UniversityTarantula's ubiquity traced back to the cretaceous Phys. org  10 April.