FOSSIL SPECIMENS DISCOVERED
IN MADAGASCAR
Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world, lies in the Indian Ocean off the East African coast. This area contains 5% of the world's plant and animal species, 80% of them unique to Madagascar. The island's eastern shore contains short, steep cliffs. Tsaratanana in the North is a mountainous region, some of these mountains being volcanic in nature.
Geological research shows that 165 million years ago, Madagascar was part of Africa, but later began breaking away from the continent. Paleontologists carrying out excavations in the region have unearthed large numbers of fossil bird, mammal and marine creatures from the Mesozoic Era (248 to 65 million years ago).
As with all other fossil discoveries, those obtained from Madagascar reveal major contradictions between the theory of evolution and the actual fossil record. Fossils prove that it is impossible to account for the origin of life in terms of the theory of evolution. Species that emerge suddenly in the geologic strata and remain unchanged over the course of hundreds of millions of years demonstrate that living things never underwent evolution, but were created.
COELACANTH
Age: 240 million years old
Location: Ambilobe, Madagascar
Period: Lower Triassic
The coelacanth, a 400-million-year-old fish, represents an impasse for the theory of evolution. This fish has not undergone any changes in 400 million years. The fact that it has preserved its earliest physiological structures over this length of time—despite continental shifts, climate changes and changes in environmental conditions—baffles evolutionists.
The coelacanth once again invalidates the theory that living things evolved and that they undergo a constant process of evolution.
The coelacanth fossil seen here is in two sections. In this type of fossil, mirror-image traces of the creature appear on the two split halves of the stone.
The coelacanth is a large fish, about 150 centimeters (5 feet) in length, its body covered with thick scales that resemble armor. It belongs to the boned fish classification Osteichthyes, and the first fossil specimens were discovered in strata belonging to the Devonian Period. Until 1938, many evolutionists imagined that this fish used its two pairs of fins to walk on the sea bottom and that it was an intermediate form between marine and terrestrial animals. To support their claim, evolutionists pointed to the bony structure of the fins evident in the coelacanth fossils they had obtained.
However, a development in 1938 completely disproved the claims regarding intermediate species, when a living coelacanth was caught off the coast of South Africa. This creature had been thought to have become extinct at least 70 million years ago. Research showed that the coelacanth had undergone no change in 400 million years.
BIVALVE
Age: 208 to 146 million years old
Location: Majunga Basin, Madagascar
Period: Jurassic
There is no difference between the bivalve shown, which lived between 208 and 146 million years ago, and bivalves alive today. This is proof that they underwent no evolutionary process and that this is not an intermediate form.
NAUTILUS
Age: 114 million years old
Size: 55 millimeters
Location: Madagascar
Period: Cretaceous, Albian Stage
A 300-million-year-old nautilus, a 150-million-year-old nautilus and a nautilus living today are the same in all respects. The specimen shown here, a 114-million-year-old nautilus fossil, indicates that these creatures have remained the same for hundreds of millions of years.
NAUTILUS
Age: 113 to 97 million years old
Size: 1.9 centimeters (0.7 in) at the apex of its oval, and 5.3 centimeters (2.1 in) across
Location: Mahajanga, Madagascar
Period: Cretaceous, Albian Stage
Looking at fossils, we see that there is no difference between creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago and their living counterparts. One such life form is the nautilus, which has undergone no changes since the moment they first came into existence. The 113- to 97-million-year-old fossil shown here illustrates this.
SAND DOLLAR
Age: 172 to 168 million years old
Location: Madagascar
Period: Jurassic, Bajocian
The fossil sand dollar shown here is between 172 and 168 million years old. There is no difference between it and today's sand dollars. This fossil shows that these creatures did not evolve, but were created.
NAUTILUS
Age: 113 to 97 million years old
Size: 6.6 centimeters (2.6 in) at the apex of its oval, by 5 centimeters (2 in) across
Location: Mahajanga, Madagascar
Period: Cretaceous, Albian stage
The fact that a nautilus that lived between 113 and 97 million years ago and a present-day nautilus are identical once more shows that the theory of evolution is a huge deception.
NAUTILUS
Age: 114 million years old
Size: 55 millimeters (2.1 in)
Location: Madagascar
Period: Cretaceous, Albian Stage
The nautilus has dealt a severe blow to the theory of evolution, having undergone no change in 300 million years. The 114-million-year-old nautilus shown here is completely identical to present-day specimens.
BIVALVE
Age: 208 to 146 million years old
Location: Majunga Basin, Madagascar
Period: Jurassic
Marine crustaceans have maintained the same characteristics in the fossil record for hundreds of millions of years. One example is the double-shelled bivalve. The one shown here lived between 208 and 146 million years ago; it represents a challenge to the theory of evolution because it is the same as present-day bivalves.
NAUTILUS
Age: 114 million years old
Size: 70 millimeters (6.7 in)
Location: Madagascar
Period: Cretaceous, Albian Stage
The nautilus is an invertebrate commonly found in the seas today. These creatures reveal the invalidity of Darwinism. There is no difference between a present-day Nautilus and one that lived 114 million years ago.
NAUTILUS
Age: 114 million years old
Size: 17 centimeters (6.6 in)
Location: Madagascar
Period: Cretaceous, Albian
The nautilus has survived for about 300 million years and has preserved its physiological structure during all that time. The fossil shown here is of a 114-million-year-old nautilus. The fact that the creature has not changed for hundreds of millions of years is living proof that evolution never happened.
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