FOSSIL SPECIMENS DISCOVERED IN THE USA

FOSSIL SPECIMENS DISCOVERED IN THE USA

A fish fossil found in Green River, Wyoming

Dating back to the Eocene Period (54 to 37 million years ago), the Green River fossil beds are one of the most important in the United States of America. The first known excavations in the region took place in the 1850s. In 1856, the archaeologist Dr. John Evans announced the fish fossils he had collected in the region to the scientific world, and the Green River Formation thus entered the scientific literature.

(on the left) Kaibab limestone averages about 250 million years old and forms the surface of the Kaibab and Coconino Plateaus. Fossils that can be found in this layer are coral, mollusks, sea lilies, worms and fish teeth.. (on the right) transportation of the fossil.

The Green River is actually a tributary of the Colorado River. The Green River Formation itself is a mountain-lake basin consisting of an area spread over three separate states. Part of it lies to the east of the Uinta Mountains in northwest Colorado, and a wider part lies in southwest Wyoming.

Green River's rock structure is made up of different strata, whose contents vary the deeper down one goes. Fossil distribution also varies. To date, fossils belonging to some 60 separate vertebrate groups have been found in digs in Green River and countless invertebrate fossils.

Ohio is a state with well-known fossil fields. Geological research has shown that some 510 million years ago, Ohio lay to the south of Ecuador. As the continents drifted and North America moved towards its present position, Ohio found itself underwater several times. That explains why a large number of fossils dating back to the Palaeozoic (543 to 251 million years ago) have been discovered in Ohio.

A fossil research area in Wyoming	Canyonland National Park, Colorado

Another state with rich fossil beds is Utah. A great variety of fossils, from invertebrates to different marine organisms and from reptiles to mammals, has been unearthed in Utah. Microscopic fossils recently discovered in the Uinta Mountains have revealed that there are fossil beds in Utah dating to the Cambrian Period.

As is the case with fossils discovered in other regions of the world, all of them once again demonstrate that there is no difference between modern-day trout, skate, dragonflies, flies, spiders, crabs and turtles and similar creatures that lived millions of years ago. Living things have undergone no change in the intervening hundreds of millions of years—in other words, they did not undergo evolution. The fossil records refute evolution and once again confirm the fact of creation.

GARFISH Age: 54 to 37 million years old Size: 39 centimeters (15.3 in) in length; matrix: 29 centimeters (11 in) by 40 centimeters (15 in) Location: Lincoln County, Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene Hundreds of garfish fossils that have been collected give evidence that these still-living fish have remained unchanged for millions of years. The garfish pictured, between 54 and 37 million years old, is no different from those living in our seas today. This exact similarity is an inexplicable situation for Darwinists and once again proves the fact of creation.

POPLAR LEAF Age: 54 to 37 million years old Location: Colorado, USA Formation: Green River Period: Eocene Darwinists try to explain the question of how plants emerged by using the concept of “chance.” They claim that an endless series of various plant species emerged, over the course of time and by chance, from one single original one-celled plant-which itself appeared as the result of chance. They also maintain that every species' own particular characteristics, such as its smell, structure and colors, are similarly the work of coincidence. Evolutionists seek to account for a seaweed turning into a strawberry, or a poplar tree or a rosebush, by saying that these diversifications were the results of circumstances established wholly by chance. Yet there is no scientific evidence to support this fantasy. On the other hand, there exist countless scientific data and findings that demolish evolutionists' claims. Countless examples are found in the fossil record, which shows that thousands of living species have persisted, totally unaltered, for hundreds of millions of years. This approximately 50-million-year-old poplar leaf fossil pictured here states by its very example that living things did not evolve, but were created.

STINGRAY Age: 54 to 37 million years old Size: 8 centimeters (3.2 in) by 3.8 centimeters (1.5 in); matrix: 12.7 centimeters (5 in) by 10 centimeters (4 in) Location: Lincoln County, Wyoming Period: Eocene Stingrays are cartilaginous fish. In the face of a threat, they defend themselves with the stings on their tails. Their eyes are located above their flattened bodies and their mouths are underneath. Just like sharks, they find their food by using their sense of smell and by electrical senses. They generally live submerged on the ocean floor, with only their eyes and tails discernable. The fossil pictured evidences that fish have not undergone evolution. Stingrays that lived 50 million years ago were no different from the ones living today. Despite the passage of millions of years, no change has occurred in the structure of stingrays. If evolution had really taken place, then stingrays would have undergone various stages, leaving behind many fossils documenting these sequential stages. However each fossil discovered reveal that today's stingrays and those that lived in the past are the same. All these deny the claims of evolutionists.

SARDINE Age: 54 to 37 million years Location: Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA Period: Eocene If evolutionary claims were true, then there should be considerable differences between sardine fossils unearthed and those living today. There should be signs in sardine fossils of the so-called evolutionary process that Darwinists claim took place. However, no trace of any such thing has ever been found. Neither is it possible for any to be found in the future, because life is not, contrary to what evolutionists would have us believe, the product of blind coincidences. Almighty and Omniscient God created all living things.

HERRING Age: 54 to 37 million years old Size: 9.3 centimeters (3.7 in) Location: Kemmerer, Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene "Living fossils" reveal that species have not evolved, but are created. Species have not attained their present body structure by chance, as evolutionists claim. They are all created flawlessly by Almighty God and have lived throughout their existence in the form they were created. The herring fossil pictured also proves this. Herrings have remained the same for millions of years, preserving the form and structure with which they were initially created. Like all other fossils, this herring reveals that the theory of evolution is based on lies.

CRAB Age: 50 million years old Location: Oregon Period: Eocene One striking feature about the fossil record is that, living beings have undergone no changes during all the geological periods. In other words, for tens of millions, and even hundreds of millions of years, creatures have remained just as they initially appeared in the fossil records. This is evidence that then and now, living beings have not evolved. Crabs that have remained unchanged for 50 million years are among these proofs. Crabs that live today and those of millions of years ago are identical.

PERCH Age: 54 to 37 million years old Size: 30.4 centimeters (12 in) Location: Kemmerer, Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene Perches are a kind of fish that can adapt to different environments and water temperatures. Darwinists' claim that livings species evolved from one another via gradual changes is once again refuted by perch fossils. Today's living perches share the same structures as their counterparts of 50 million years ago.

SUMAC LEAF Age: 54 to 37 million years old Size: 25 millimeters (0.9 in) Location: Uintah County, Utah Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene Like all other living beings, plant species also emerged fully formed, with their complex structures. That is to say, they were created with all their characteristics intact. Hundreds of thousands of plant fossils in geological strata prove this point. Evolutionists can not provide us with fossils that are half-pine, half-willow, half-moss, half-orchid, or half-carnation. On the other hand, hundreds of thousands of fossils demonstrate that willows have always been willows, pines have always remained as pines, spruces have always remained as spruces and plane trees have always remained as plane trees. Each of these fossils, millions of years old, refutes evolution. This sumac fossil, between 54 and 37 million years old, is another evidence revealing the Darwinists' deceptions.

TROUT-PERCH Period: Eocene Size: 54 - 37 milyon yıl Location: Green River Oluşumu, Wyoming, ABD Trout-perches generally live in lakes. If a creature continues to survive in our day with all the flawless features it had millions of years ago, having undergone no changes, this is strong evidence invalidating the "gradual evolution" model advanced by Darwin. There exist not a few, but millions of such examples on Earth, that will prove this point. The trout-perch fossil here is just part of this evidence.

TWO HERRINGS Age: 54 to 37 million years old Size: Matrix: 34.2 centimeters (13.5 in) by 43 centimeters (17 in) Location: Kemmerer, Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene Like all other living beings, herrings have undergone no change for millions of years. The structure of herrings that lived 54 million years ago and those of today are exactly the same. This refutes the evolutionist claim that living species gradually evolved from one another. Pictured are two distinct herring species that were petrified side by side. These fish, fossilized with all their details, show that living creatures have not gone through any evolution, but were created.

TRILOBITE Age: 380 million years old Size: 60 millimeters (2.3 in) Location: Sylvania, Lucas County, Ohio Formation: Silica Shale Formation Period: Devonian Trilobites are one of the most important sea creatures that lived in the Cambrian Period, leaving many traces in various parts of the world. One of the most astounding features of trilobites is their multi-lensed eye structure, consisting of countless units, each one of which is a lens. Just as the hexagonal "honeycomb" eyes of insects, each of these units functions as a single, independent lens. Each one perceives a separate image, and in the brain, these images unite into a whole. Research shows that some trilobites' eyes have more than three thousand lenses, which means that more than three thousand images are conveyed to this crustacean. In short, a sea creature that lived 530 million years ago had a highly complex brain and eye—flawless structures that could not have come into being by evolution.

HERRINGS Age: 54 to 37 million years old Size: Matrix: 31 centimeters (12.5 in) Location: Kemmerer, Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene Pictured are herrings that probably were killed together because of a sudden burial. Their fossilized tails and fins show no signs of any damage. Their well-preserved eye sockets and bone structures once again show that evolution did not occur in any part of their geologic time.

MILLIPEDE Age: 300 million years old Size: 50 millimeters (1.9 in); matrix: 58 millimeters (2.2 in) by 33 millimeters (1.2 in) Location: Morris, (Mazon Creek), Illinois Formation: Francis Creek Shale Period: Pennsylvanian Pictured is a 300-million-year-old fossil millipede. This and other millipedes that lived 300 million years ago display not the slightest difference from today's millipedes. Like all other living beings, millipedes too did not evolve, but were created.

JUVENILE RABBIT Age: 30 million years old Location: Lusk, Wyoming Formation: White River Formation Period: Oligocene 30-million-year-old fossils that are identical with creatures living today refute the theory of evolution. Fossil discoveries reveal that rabbits have always been rabbits.

TROUT-PERCH Age: 50 million years old Size: 65 millimeters (2.5 in) in length; matrix: 90 millimeters (3.5 in) by 45 millimeters (1.7 in) Location: Fossil Lake, Kemmerer, Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene Trout-perches are of many different kinds. Almost all of them exist in fossil records, which show that they have stayed the same for millions of years and have not evolved.

SEA URCHIN Age: 295 million years old Size: Matrix: 110 millimeters by 163 millimeters (4.3 in by 6.4 in) Location: Brown County, Texas Formation: Winchell Formation Period: Carboniferous Pennsylvanian sea urchins are echinoderms that can be found today in all seas of the world. Sea urchin fossils dating back 300 million years reveal that these invertebrates with their complex structures have existed for millions of years. During all that time, no change have occurred in their structure, and they have undergone no intermediate stages. Darwinists are desperate when confronted by these fossils, for they prove that the evolution process has never existed.

SYCAMORE LEAVES Age: 50 million years old Size: Leaf is 15 centimeters (6 in) by 15 centimeters (6 in) size from the left lobe to the end of the stem; matrix: 20.3 centimeters (8 in) by 22.8 centimeters (9 in) Location: Douglas Pass-Rangely, Colorado Period: Eocene Examining the fossil history and structural features of plants living on land, we come across facts that are incompatible with what the theory of evolution asserts. Plants shown in almost all biology books have no fossil records that verify the so-called evolutionary process. Most of today's species have left very satisfactory remains in the fossil records, and none of these shows any features confirming a transition from one species to the next. All are distinct species, created with their distinctive features in their original forms, and have left no transitional connections, as claimed. As evolutionist paleontologist E. C. Olson admits, the majority of plant groups emerged all of a sudden, leaving no ancestors. (E. C. Olson, The Evolution of Life, New York: The New American Library, 1965, p. 9) The 50-million-year-old sycamore leaf fossil in the picture also verifies this fact.

SAND FISH Age: 54 to 37 million years old Location: Lincoln County, Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene The sand fish pictured is 54-37 million years old and has undergone no changes during this time. This fossil, identical to the sand fish living in seas today, invalidates the theory of evolution.

HERRINGS Age: 55 million years old Size: Matrix: 35 centimeters (13.7 in) by 23 centimeters (9 in) Location: Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene Living fossils are no different from their counterparts that lived in ages past, and offer evidence that species have not undergone evolution for millions of years. The 55-million-year-old herrings pictured are some of these living fossils.

GINKGO LEAF Age: 65 to 54 million years old Size: 12 centimeters (4.8 in) Location: Almont, North Dakota Formation: Sentinel Butte Formation Period: Paleocene Plants in the fossil records appear with features similar to plants alive today. This shows that they were created, like all other living things. The ginkgo leaf pictured is 65 million years old, proving that ginkgos have not evolved. The general lines of leaf and its vein structure have been fossilized. This 12 centimeter (4.8 in) fossil shows that ginkgos have been the same for millions of years. There exists no difference between them now and those ginkgos that grew in the past.

HERRING Age: 55 million years old Size: 12 centimeters (4.8 in) Location: Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene Although Darwinists choose not to admit it, the facts shown by fossil records are evident. Millions of fossils gathered from all over the world manifest that living beings did not evolve, but were created. One example showing this fact is the herring pictured. Herrings that have remained the same for millions of years once again show that the theory of evolution is a deception.

SUNFISH Age: 54 to 37 million years old Size: 17.2 centimetrs (6.8 in) Location: Kemmerer, Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene Seas in our day have many species of sunfish. The fossil pictured shows that sunfish have not evolved. For millions of years their physiology has remained the same. The appearance and structure of sunfish that lived about 55 million years ago are the same as those alive today.

LAMPREY Age: 300 million years old Size: 43 millimeters (1.6 in) wide, on a 73 millimeter (2.8 in) by 48-millimeter (1.8 in) nodule pair Location: Pit 11, Francis Creek Shale, Braidwood, Illinois Period: Pennsylvanian Braidwood's coal mines are rich in fossils. The lamprey in the picture is a species lacking a jawbone. Although they generally live in shallow waters, some species make long journeys in oceans. This fossil is an evidence that lampreys have undergone no changes for approximately 300 million years. Despite the time that has passed, lampreys have always remained the same. There exists no difference between a lamprey that lived millions of years ago and those that live today.

TROUT-PERCH Age: 50 million years old Size: 9.4 centimeters (3.7 in); matrix: 17.5 centimeters (6.8 in) by 12.3 centimeters (4.8 in) Location: Fossil Lake, Kemmerer, Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene Evolutionists claim that fish evolved from invertebrates such as pikaia; that amphibians and today's fish evolved from a so-called ancestral fish. Reptiles evolved from amphibians, birds and mammals evolved from reptiles and finally, human beings and apes of today evolved from one common ancestor. But in order to prove this claim, they must be able to display the fossils of these transitional "missing links." But as stated earlier, there are no traces of these imaginary creatures. On the other hand, hundreds of millions of fossils reveal that the so-called evolutionary process never occurred. These fossils prove that fish have always been fish, birds have always been birds, reptiles have always been reptiles, mammals have always been mammals and human beings have always been human. The 50-million-year-old trout-perch fossil pictured also shows that living creatures have not evolved, but were created.

TROUT TAIL Age: 15 million years old Location: Stewart Springs Flora, Stewart Valley, Nevada Period: Miocene Some fossils preserve only certain parts of living beings' bodies. Pictured is a 15-million-year-old trout tail. As is seen, there is no difference between a trout tail 50 million years old and one that's 15 million years old and one that 's alive today.

POPLAR Age: 15 million years old Location: Stewart Springs Flora, Stewart Valley, Nevada Period: Miocene Poplar trees of the Salicaceae family have remained unchanged for millions of years. There are no differences between their organic and structural features they had initially and those they have now. This poplar leaf fossil dating back 15 million years proves this.

CRANE FLY Period: Cenozoic Era, Eocene epoch Age: 48 to 37 million years old Location: USA As with all other species, stasis observed throughout the course of crane fly's existence is proof that evolutionary claims are false. The theory of evolution was proposed under the scientifically primitive conditions of the 19th century, adopted merely by ignorance, yet collapsed in the face of the 20th- and 21st-century science.

SPRUCE Age: 15 million years old Location: Stewart Springs Flora, Stewart Valley, Nevada Period: Miocene "Spruce" is the general name given to 35 different species of trees that remain green throughout the year. Fossil records display that they have been the same for millions of years and have not undergone any evolution. The spruce seed fossil pictured dates back to 15 million years. As it also confirms, through millions of years that have gone by, spruce have always remained the same. There is no difference between spruces in our day and those alive 15 million years ago.

LANTERN FISH Age: 23 to 5 million years old Size: 3.8 centimeters (1.5 in) Location: California, USA Formation: Puente Formation Period: Miocene Lantern fish are small fish that live in the ocean deeps and produce light within their bodies, generally in their abdomens. Because they live in water that's deep and dark, they use their light both to illuminate their immediate environment and to scare their enemies. That these fishes' bodies have extremely advanced and complex bodily structures that can produce light in their bodies millions of years ago is inexplicable to evolutionists.

PONDEROSA PINE Age: 15 million years Location: Stewart Springs Flora, Stewart Valley, Nevada Formation: Green River Formation Period: Miocene The pine needle pictured is 15 million years old. Pine needles of 15 million years ago and those of today are identical. The fact that they remain the same despite the millions of years that have passed once again proves that evolution never existed.

PERCH Age: 54 to 37 million years old Location: Fossil Lake, Kemmerer, Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene According to evolutionists' claims, the ancestors of fish were invertebrates, which lack backbones. However, evolutionists fail to answer how these ancestors with spines but no bones developed a backbone. That is because, these living beings should undergo such great changes that the hard shell surrounding their bodies should disappear while a skeleton appears inside. For such a transformation, there should be many intermediate links between the two organisms. However, evolutionists fail to show even a single fossil as an intermediate form between vertebrates and invertebrates. On the other hand, millions of fossils show that fish always remained as fish, this 54- to 37-million-year-old perch fossil is one of them.

HERRING Age: 55 million years old Size: 21 centimeters (8.25 in) Location: Kemerrer, Wyoming Formation: Green River Formation Period: Paleocene Herrings live in mild and shallow waters, mostly in the North Atlantic and Baltic Sea. Herrings that have approximately 200 species are almost the same. Almost all of them are silver in color and have a single fin on their backs. The herring fossil in the picture is 21 centimeters (8.2 in). It is uncovered from Green River from a depth of 2200 meters (7217 feet). As with all other fossil records, this fossil herring reveals that living beings have not undergone evolution. Evolutionists are desperate in the face of fossil records, and every new discovery adds to their desperation.

WILLOW Age: 54 to 37 million years old Location: Uintah County, Utah Formation: Green River Formation Period: Eocene As is the case with all other living things, the fossil record reveals that plants too have remained unchanged for millions of years. Today's plants have the same systems and mechanisms they did millions of years ago. The fossil willow leaf pictured is proof that willows have remained the same for 54 to 37 million years. Millions of fossils unearthed from all over the world refute the theory of evolution, revealing that plants have not gone through an evolution but were created.

POPLAR LEAF Period: Cenozoic Era, Eocene epoch Age: 54 to 37 million years old Location: USA This fossil specimen, evidence of the fact that poplars have always existed as poplars, is some 50 million years old. Poplars, having undergone no change at all over 50 million years, reveal that the theory of evolution is nothing but a deception and that evolution has never occurred. The universe, together with all the living things it contains, is the work of Almighty God.