Fossil Flies with Human-Like Eyes?

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By Ken Ham

Convergent evolution—it’s the convenient term used to describe similar features (often very complex ones such as echolocation or flight) that have supposedly arisen in organisms separated by vast ages of evolutionary distances (millions of years) due to similar environments or stressors. And the newest example of so-called “convergent evolution” is the eyes of crane flies and humans, as supposedly revealed by the fossil record.

Scientists found that the insects trap light similarly to the way humans do, using the pigment melanin.

Scientists discovered a cache of crane fly fossils, dated to be allegedly 54 million years old. These crane …read more

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