A recent secular news article confidently asserts that a fish fossil discovered in 1995 “is an ancestor of the first land animals or four-limbed vertebrate tetrapods.”¹ The Flinders University zoologists stated the brain of Cladarosymblema narrienense was adapted for life on land, the ancestor of the first land animals. That’s quite a statement.

In 2021, paleontologist Michael Caldwell of the University of Alberta in Canada stated, “There are many evolutionary questions that could be answered by finding a four-legged snake fossil, but only if it is the real deal.”¹

Scientists are still trying to out-do each another by finding the biggest dinosaur.

A team of evolutionary scientists from the U.S., China, and Canada recently found a complete tiny crab in amber.¹ Publishing in Science Advances, the team determined that the specimen was a member of Eubrachyura, a category of “true crabs” based on living animals.

by Dave Woetzel, M.S., and Brian Thomas, Ph.D.*