Horseshoe crab fossilized brain lasts millions of years

Image courtesy of Russell Bicknell. 

Joel Kontinen

The horseshoe crab that was found at Mazon Creek in Illinois. The brain fossil is believed to be around 310 million years old, making it one of the oldest of its kind ever discovered.

Russell Bicknell, the leading author of this find, said that the chances of finding a fossilized rain are "one in a million."

Yes, according to the evolutionary timescale. But in the creationists, it is just normal. The animal probably died during the Flood of Noah’s days.  

Source:

Baker Harry. 2021.  10 coolest non-dinosaur fossils unearthed in 2021, ancient arachnid brain. Live Science 29 December. 

Kangaroo Painting Found In Australia

Image courtesy of Damien Finch, fair use doctrinema

Joel Kontinen 

Australian scientists have discovered the country's oldest known rock art - a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo.

 The artwork measuring 2m (6.5ft) was painted in red ochre on the ceiling of a rock shelter. It was found in Western Australia's Kimberley region, known for its Aboriginal rock paintings.

Its age was determined by radiocarbon-dating ancient mud wasp nests. The findings were published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.

However, its date does not take into account the flood of Noah’s days that would have subtracted a fraction of the sum.  

 Source:

Australia: Oldest rock art is 17,300-year-old kangaroo - BBC News 20 February.

Remarkable’ fossil features an insect trapped in amber, stuck to a dinosaur jaw

Image courtesy of Emma Jones/University of Alberta, fair use doctrine. The picture shows fossil features an insect trapped in amber, stuck to a dinosaur jaw.



Joel Kontinen

A dinosaur or 75-million year- old hadrosaur, found in the Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada, had a 7 centimetre wide blob of amber, containing traces of trees and sap-sucking aphids.

Scientist think that after the Prosaurolophus hadrosaur died, "it washed into a river, There the Prosaurolophus, The blob, containing an unlucky aphid, washed up against the bone and was pressed against it by the flow of water, the scientists argue. It was then covered in sediment for tens of millions of years, during which time the resin hardened into amber".

The episode can also be treated like the waters of The flood of Noah’s day can account for the sap and its content, that is the aphids.

Source.

Pickrell, John, 2019, ‘Remarkable’ fossil features an insect trapped in amber, stuck to a dinosaur jaw, Science (29 November).