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Fossil Tabulate Coral (Halysites sp.) Also know as chain coral. Specimen is of upper Ordovician age, about 450 million years old, from the Cincinnati Group. Clark Co., Ohio. (Collection of the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum. Golden, Colo.)
Denali National Park & Preserve, Alaska, Guest Scientist, Amy Atwater, is pointing to a number of newly discovered fossil bird tracks. (NPS Photo by Amy Atwater, GIP)
this is a fossil that came out of the garden a few years ago when we had the old lilac hedge taken out. when I was digging out the old roots, I came across this big fossil of what looks like a kind of banana type leaf. this area was once a giant inland tropical sea, so it must be really old. one day will donate to the geology museum here
Trilobites appeared suddenly in some of the earliest rocks of the fossil record, with no intermediate ancestors. This sudden appearance of a great variety of advanced, fully developed creatures is called the Cambrian Explosion. Trilobites are especially interesting because they have complex eyes, which would need a lot of progressive evolution to develop such advanced features However, there is no evidence of any evolution leading up to the Cambrian Explosion, and that is a serious dilemma for evolutionists.
Trilobites are now thought to be extinct, although it is possible that similar creatures could still exist in unexplored parts of deep oceans.
Rapid formation of strata - latest evidence:
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See fossil of a crab unchanged after many millions of years:
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Fossil museum: www.flickr.com/photos/101536517@N06/sets/72157641367196613/
There is no credible mechanism for progressive evolution.
Progressive, macro evolution is based on the ludicrous idea that random mutations (accidental, genetic, copying mistakes) selected by natural selection, can provide constructive, genetic information capable of creating entirely new features, structures, organs, and biological systems. Macro evolution is based on a belief in a complete progression from microbes to man through millions of random, genetic copying MISTAKES. There is no evidence for it whatsoever, it is unscientific nonsense which defies logic.
Micro-evolution is simply the small changes which take place, through natural selection or selective breeding, but only within the strict limits of the built-in variability of the existing gene pool. Any changes outside the extent of the existing gene pool requires a credible mechanism for the creation of new, constructive, genetic information, that is what is essential for macro evolution. Micro evolution does not involve or require the creation of any new, genetic information. So micro evolution and macro evolution are entirely different. There is no connection between them at all.
Macro evolution is the ridiculous idea that everything in the genome of humans and every living thing past and present (apart from the original genetic information in the very first living cell) is the result of genetic copying mistakes. mutations ... of mutations .... of mutations.... of mutations .... etc. etc.
In other words, Neo-Darwinism proposes that the complete genome (every scrap of genetic information in the DNA) of every living thing that has ever lived was created by a series ... of mistakes ... of mistakes .... of mistakes .... of mistakes etc. etc.
If we look at the whole picture we soon realise that what is actually being proposed by evolutionists is that, apart from the original information in the first living cell: every additional scrap of genetic information for all - features, structures, systems and processes that exist, or have ever existed in living things, such as:
skin, bones, bone joints, shells, flowers, leaves, wings, scales, muscles, fur, hair, teeth, claws, toe and finger nails, horns, beaks, nervous systems, blood, blood vessels, brains, lungs, hearts, digestive systems, vascular systems, liver, kidneys, pancreas, bowels, immune systems, senses, eyes, ears, sex organs, sexual reproduction, sperm, eggs, pollen, the process of metamorphosis, marsupial pouches, marsupial embryo migration, mammary glands, hormone production, melanin etc. .... have been created from scratch, by an incredibly long series of small, accumulated mistakes ... mistake - upon mistake - upon mistake - upon mistake - etc. etc.
If you believe that ... you will believe anything.
Conclusion: progressive, microbes-to-man is impossible - there is no credible mechanism to produce all the new, genetic information which is essential for that to take place.
The evolution story is a fairy tale.
Other folks make sand castles, we make sand fossils. Here is my spouse's 2014 creation.
(Flickr friends, in an attempt to catch up on my postings, I will be posting 4 shots a day until I catch up. Bear with me.)
Fossil Laural Leaf. Specimen is an unknown species in the Lauraceae family. Found in the Parachute Creek member of the Green River Formation. These plants thrived in the Eocene period, about 45-50 million years ago. Leaf is 3 cm long. Douglas Pass, Garfield Co., Colo.
Located between Payson and Camp Verde, Arizona, Fossil Creek flows all year as it is feed from a set of natural springs. It was recently returned to full flow after the removal of an upstream dam, which previously diverted over 90% of the stream for use at two of Arizona's oldest hydroelectric power plants, Childs and Irving.
Excavating and cleaning a pygmy mammoth from the Pleistocene that are miniature mammoths ranging in size from four to six feet tall. (NPS Photo)
Paleontology GIP Katharine Loughney looking for fossils at Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Washington D.C., Maryland, & West Virginia. (NPS Photo by Katharine Loughney, GIP)
Fossil wood (quartz-permineralized fossil wood)
Plants are multicellular, photosynthetic eucaryotes. The oldest known land plant body fossils are Silurian in age. Fossil root traces of land plants are known back in the Ordovician. The Devonian was the key time interval during which land plants flourished and Earth experienced its first “greening” of the land. The earliest land plants were small and simple and probably remained close to bodies of water. By the Late Devonian, land plants had evolved large, tree-sized bodies and the first-ever forests appeared.
The fossil shown above is "petrified wood", which is a horrible term for what is technically called permineralization. Biogenic materials such as wood or bone have a fair amount of small-scale porosity. After burial, the porosity of wood or bone can get partially or completely filled up with minerals as groundwater or diagenetic fluids percolate through. The end result is a harder, denser material that retains the original three-dimensionality (or close to it). The wood or bone has become “petrified”. Well, no - it’s become permineralized. Not surprisingly, the most common permineralization mineral is quartz (SiO2). Sometimes, fossil wood and bone have been permineralized with radioactive minerals such as black uraninite (UO2) or yellowish carnotite (K2(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H2O). Recently, fossil bones permineralized with cinnabar have been identified (García-Alix et al., 2013, Lethaia 46: 1-6).
Thanks to a comment that Perseverando said on my fossil image I thought I might combine this with my organ staircase image - just for laughs you see ;-)
Paleontology GIP Kelly Hattori using a brush to expose a section of shale - at an excavation site in Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado. (NPS Photo by Kelly Hattori, GIP)
Bison latifrons Harlan, 1825 - fossil buffalo skeleton from the Pleistocene of North America (public display, Idaho Museum of Natural History, Pocatello, Idaho, USA).
The extinct giant buffalo, Bison latifrons, was remarkable in having horns with a >3 times longer span than the modern American buffalo (Bison bison). The overall body size of the giant buffalo was also considerably larger than modern buffalo.
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Bovidae
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Fossil of the Day Thursday 5 December:
1st 🇺🇸🇷🇺 US & Russia for pushing for weak #LossandDamage outcome
Special mention:
🇯🇵Japan and 🇦🇺 Australia for focusing on insurance
⭐Ray of the Day
Canada, Colombia, Vanuatu, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Switzerland - push for HR in #Article6
== Official Citation ==
Today’s winners of fossil of the day are two giants of bad behavior. Guess who? Who else! The United States (US) and Russia!
==The US and Russia
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Looks like the United States (US) and Russia share more than the ability to bully other countries, rig elections (and lead in climate-wrecking oil and gas production)! They want to make loss and damage in the negotiations weak again!
The US gets the fossil for opposing that money reaches vulnerable communities, through the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for Loss and Damage, to deal with climate change impacts, which Uncle Sam has helped cause by being a massive polluter.
Russia gets to share the fossil award with the US for having the chutzpah to try and throw out human rights and gender from the loss and damage negotiations.
The US folks seem to have a very short memory. They’re forgetting that waaaay back in 2013, countries agreed to “enhance action and support, including finance” for loss and damage via the WIM.
And Russia, come on! A record of human rights abuses both at home and blatantly at the international level? This is an overdose of bad Vodka! You cannot revoke people’s right to life, to a home and education, with a stroke of a pen.
Hey Russia if you don’t understand how gender, human rights and gender are related, maybe you shouldn’t be part of this conversation?
All these basic human rights are at risk when the impacts of climate go beyond what it is possible to adapt to. If Russia paid more attention, they would know that women and children are amongst the most affected after a disaster.
A special mention goes to Japan and Australia. You are also showing extreme hard-heartness towards vulnerable developing countries who desperately need your support. Support – aka finance that was agreed six years ago. Don’t find ridiculous reasons not to provide it now by focusing on insurance (insurance is not relevant for poor people - and why are we making the people on the front line of climate impacts pay insurance premiums to cover climate damage they had no role in causing?)
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Attribution: David Tong /WWF New Zealand
On the left is a faux pyritized trilobite and on the right is a faux ammonite, both mounted on slate. I took some castings of a couple pieces from my fossil collection and painted them. The ammonite required a mixture of plaster and cement to get the right texture for the shell remnants.
These fossils are at a creek near Pelion Hut. There was an amazing variety, it was fun to see the diversity and complexity.
Day 3 of Overland Track
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Fossil Lotus Leaf (Nelumbo sp.). These aquatic plants lived during Eocene time, about 50 million years ago. This fossil is preserved in the Green River Formation, a laminated limestone precipitated from calcium-rich waters. The limestone is interbedded with many thin layers of volcanic ash and mudstone. Fossil Butte National Monument. Near Kemmerer, Lincoln Co., Wyoming.
Fossil Aquatic Fern (Salvinia sp.). These floating plants lived during Eocene time, about 50 million years ago. This fossil is preserved in the Green River Formation, a laminated limestone precipitated from calcium-rich waters. The limestone is interbedded with many thin layers of volcanic ash and mudstone.Fossil Butte National Monument. Near Kemmerer, Lincoln Co., Wyoming.
Fossil Fern (Laccopteris smithii). Found in the Chinle Formation. The fern is from the Triassic period and is about 215 million years old. Petrified Forest National Park. Navajo Co., Arizona. (Collection of the Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum. Golden, Colo.)
Fossil Hornwort (Ceratophyllum muricatum). These aquatic plants lived during Eocene time, about 50 million years ago. This fossil is preserved in the Green River Formation, a laminated limestone precipitated from calcium-rich waters. The limestone is interbedded with many thin layers of volcanic ash and mudstone . Fossil Butte National Monument. Near Kemmerer, Lincoln Co., Wyoming.
This was part of a unit study about the ice age. The girls are making a fossil sandwich by laying items on bread, putting another layer of bread on top, and then using a rolling pin to flatten it.
This was a follow-up activity after reading Sunset of the Sabertooth (one of the books in the Magic Treehouse series).