On January 21, 2015 the news broke—an Australian fisherman hooked a "living fossil." Called the frilled (or frill) shark (genus Chlamydoselachus, belonging to Order Hexanchiformes), this creature was thought to be 80 million years old.¹ It looks mighty frightening, but is it truly "prehistoric" and somehow linked to shark evolution?

The origin of snake venom has been a long-time mystery to both creationists and evolutionists. Interestingly, new research confirms that the same genes that encode snake venom proteins are active in many other tissues.¹

Recently there has been some celebration from the Darwinian community regarding a discovery of a fossil¹ that allegedly links terrestrial animals to their future aquatic relatives: the ichthyosaurs.