By Ken Ham
A nearly complete ichthyosaur skeleton that was discovered in 2009 was also covered in a news article recently. It (and another partial fossil discovered in 1926) were described in the April 7 edition of the journal PeerJ. Both fossils were found in the Solnhofen limestone of southern Germany in early Tithonian (Late Jurassic) sedimentary layers. What grabbed my attention was the mention of soft tissue and blubber in a supposedly 150-million-year-old fossil.
Now unlike soft tissue finds in T. rex and hadrosaurs, where the tissue was soft and viable, this “soft tissue” has been replaced by the mineral apatite …read more
Source: Ken Ham AIG
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