Original soft-tissue fossils continue to challenge mainstream understanding of how and when fossils formed. Secular researchers described dozens of them over the years, from mummified skin and dried red blood to still-purple retinas, and they assign them ages of tens of millions of years. However, the science of tissue decay clearly does not permit these long ages.

Scientists recently found blood remnants in a mosquito fossil trapped in a supposed 46-million-year-old rock.¹ Could blood really last that long?