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Mantis Shrimp

Period: Cretaceous
Age: 95 million years

Region: Lebanon

Mantis shrimps, which have come down unchanged ever since the Carboniferous Period (354
to 290 million years), are another life form that refutes the theory of evolution. The fact that a
life form never changes over 300 million years is not something the evolutionist logic can exp-
lain. The mantis shrimp fossil in the picture is 95 million years old and is identical both to man-

tis shrimps that lived 300 million years ago and also to those living today.
The mantis shrimp can reach up to 30 cm (12 inches) in length and has a shell of different co-
lors. Divers refer to them as “finger snappers” because of their dangerous claws, and they pos-

sess one of the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom. The mantis shrimp can see twelve
main colors, four times as many as human beings, and can also identify the direction of the vib-
rations occurring in different light waves.

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