There are few animals more nightmarish than an 8-foot sea scorpion. Although, they were not true scorpions, their fossils display a menacing and formidable creature.

“The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat’s, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing,” J.R.R. Tolkien described the Eye of Sauron in The Lord of the Rings.⁸

"From the rising of the sun to its going down
the LORD's name is to be praised."
Psalm 113:3 NKJV

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Sharks are back in the news, and it’s in regard to their most formidable and fearsome structure—their jaws.

Zoologists recently studied the lower jaws of a number of shark species along with their lifestyle and published the results in the journal Communications Biology.¹

One of the hallmarks of good science is to formulate a cogent theory based on the physical evidence. For example, if the physical evidence (e.g. a fossilized human footprint trail or a fossil human footbone) does not agree with the time of the appearance of humans according to accepted theory, then the theory must be adjusted—no matter how significant or painful that might be.