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Harun Yahya
Thornback Ray (Raja clavata)
Period: Cretaceous
Age: 95 million years
Region: Lebanon
The thornback ray is a member of the family Dasyatidae and is unique to the northeast
Atlantic and the Mediterranean. It inhabits a very wide region, from Madeira and Morocco
to the British Isles, from the south of Norway to the Baltic, and from the Atlantic to the
Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Its nose is short and broad. The front part of its body is
quite smooth. The rear part, on the other hand, is curved slightly upward. The tail is on
average 1.4 times the length of the body. There is a poisonous spike on its tail.
Examination of this fossil that lived 95 million years ago shows that it is physiologically
identical to a specimen alive today. Despite the passage of millions of years, the fish has
preserved its long, thin tail structure and body that opens out to the side in two wings, and
it has never altered in the slightest. A 95-million-year-old thornback ray proves that living
things did not evolve and that Allah creates all life forms.
