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Fungus Gnat

Period: Oligocene

Age: 25 million years

Region: Dominican Republic

The way the details of all the features in this 25-million-year-old fungus gnat have been preser-
ved is truly astonishing. The gnat’s wing architecture, the fine blood vessels in the wings, the jo-

ints in its legs, the fine hairs and the antennae on its head have all come down to us exactly as
they were.
The evolutionist idea that living things develop from the primitive to the more advanced totally

collapsed with the unearthing of this 350-million-year fossil.

As you can see in this fossil, the gnat possesses a perfect compound eye. By means of the units,
known as “ommatidia,” in the eyes of living things with compound eyes, they enjoy 360 degree
vision because every ommatidium faces a different direction. For example, houseflies have 4,000
of these small units, female fireflies 300, mayflies 5,100 and some insects have from 10,000 to
28,000, and even as many as 56,000. Each ommatidium has eight sensory cells, and the compo-
und eye can perceive around 100 images per second.

It is an obvious fact that living things with compound eyes see much better than humans and va-
rious other life forms. Therefore, the fact that animals with compound eyes were living 25 milli-
on years ago is proof that living things do not evolve from the primitive to the more advanced.

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