The scientific community continues to reel and exhibit bewilderment that well-preserved carbon-based (organic) fossil material regularly appears in sediments supposedly many millions of years old.
 
One recent discovery of organic matrix is “evidence of exceptional preservation in the nacre and prismatic layers of a 66 Ma [million years] bivalve shell.”¹

(Warning: the following article contains spoilers, although minimal.)

Everyone loves dinosaurs—especially in movies.

by Jeffrey Tomkins and Timothy Clarey*

Fossils keep revealing biomolecules that should be completely deteriorated and disintegrated if they are millions of years old. Scientists have just discovered intact starch granules in plant tissues alleged to be 280 million years old.¹

Scientists believed stromatolites were extinct—until they found them living in Shark Bay, Australia, in 1956.² Living stromatolites just keep popping up in newer and more diverse environments. The latest research has identified them even living on land.¹