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Ladybug
Period: Miocene
Age: 25 - 17 million years
Region: Dominican Republic
Ladybugs are attractive insects, generally yellow, orange or red in color, and are very well-
known to everyone.
The wings of these coleoptera, or winged insects, are actually underneath visible red-colored
sheathes. When the insect wishes to fly, it first opens up its outer wings and then, with great
care, opens up the membrane-like wings underneath. The folded
wings inside quickly become tense and flexible. These
wings are unexpectedly large for the size of the insect,
but they are so carefully folded and installed in
their sheaths that the insect is able to expertly
unfold them and fly away. It then folds
them up again and packs them away
under their red covers.
Allah shows us the greatness and
matchless nature of His artistry in these
living things. They have been doing
things we cannot do for many millions of
years. They behaved in the way inspired in
them by Allah. The stasis we can observe in
the fossilized living things is one of the grea-
test proofs that evolution never happened. Just
as with this 25-million-year fossil ladybug...
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