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Zelkova (Elm) Leaf
Period: Eocene
Age: 46 million years
Region: Green River Formation, Colorado, USA
The greatest dilemma facing the advocates of the scenario of plant evolution is how the first
plant cell evolved. Then they have no answer to the question of how the first plant, and the
thousands of species of plants alive today, formed from that first cell. Not one single transi-
tional fossil exists to support the existence of such a process; there are no fossils with semi-de-
veloped organs or systems, and no evidence that one plant is the ancestor of any other. On the
contrary, fossils show that every species of plant emerged suddenly with its own unique cha-
racteristics and never changed so long as the species survived. One of these fossils is this 46-
million-year-old fossil elm leaf, which is identical to elm leaves today.
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