Based on a new fossil discovery and reevaluation of previously known fossil material, paleontologists have described two species of giant Cretaceous fossil octopuses, Nanaimoteuthis jeletzkyi and Nanaimoteuthis haggarti.1–3 These fossil octopuses belong to the suborder Cirrata, or Cirrina. Cirrate octopuses have cilia-like strands on their arm suckers and fins on their mantles (large, umbrellalike organs t... More...
Recently, an update on the Whopper Sand in the Gulf of America (Mexico) was published in the oil field trade magazine, AAPG Explorer.1 New oil drilling has found it to be thicker and more extensive than first thought.2–4
ICR described the initial discovery of this massive sand in 2001:
The Whopper Sand was first discovered about 200 miles off the coast in ... More...
A paper was recently published in Science that suggested a lake may have helped carve Grand Canyon.1 This hypothesis has been scattered throughout conventional literature since 1934 but hasn’t become largely accepted.2,3 Those that propose a lake’s involvement, or that of a series of lakes, recognize the need for more water than what the Colorado River alone could provide to remove over 1,000 cubic... More...
A new dinosaur fossil from Patagonia (the southern tip of South America) is making headlines. Conventional scientists say it shows how a group of strange dinosaurs evolved.1 The fossil belongs to the species Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, a small dinosaur about the size of a crow that lived about 90 million years ago according to conventional dating methods.1,2 Researchers suggest this fossil illustrates th... More...
The book of Genesis tells us about a global flood that occurred about 4,500 years ago, an event that began with the bursting of the fountains of the great deep and a tremendous amount of rainfall (Genesis 7:11–12). This activity most likely caused rapid and widespread erosion across the surface of the earth. Do we actually see evidence of such erosion in the rock record? Yes!
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Was the famous extinct fossil named Archaeopteryx a bird or an evolutionary link that led to birds? And how confident should scientists and others feel about the 150-million-year age assigned to this world-famous fossil? A new report on the latest specimen confirms two Bible-friendly trends that creation scientists have been tracking for a long time.1
Researchers discovered subtle, bird-specific features in th... More...