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Sturgeon
Period: Jurassic
Age: 150 million years
Region: China
The sturgeon is a freshwater fish comprising the Acipenseridae family, up to eight meters (25 feet)
long and weighing up to 1.6 tons. Their skeletons are only partly cartilaginous. They have five rows
of large scales along their flanks. Their tails are asymmetrical, their mouths point downward and
they can make their mouths protrude when necessary. They have four whiskers, which enable them
to seek food on the bottom. Most species of sturgeon only come to fresh water to breed and gener-
ally live in salt water. The largest species of sturgeon, the beluga sturgeon, lives almost exclusive-
ly in salt water and comes from the sea to fresh water to lay its eggs. The 150-million-year-old stur-
geon fossil in the picture completely refutes the evolutionist idea that life forms are descended
from one another. The fossil proves that, as with specimens living today, the fish’s tail structure,
the fins right to the side of the head and the other fins on its body have never changed. Like all oth-
er living things in the universe, the sturgeon was created by Allah with infinite wisdom.
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