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Harun Yahya

FOSSIL SPECIMENS DISCOVERED IN POLAND

One of the countries in which Baltic
amber is found is Poland. Fossils inside the

amber obtained from the Baltic region, one
of the richest sources of amber, are on aver-
age 50 to 45 million years old. One major

feature that distinguishes Baltic amber
from other ambers is the type of acid it con-
tains. Known as succinic acid, it is found in
the resin of a tree species estimated to have
lived in the region during the Eocene

Period (54 to 37 million years ago).
The vast majority of animals in Baltic
amber are arthropods. Fossil specimens of

worms, molluscs and various vertebrate or-
ganisms are rarely encountered. These pre-
served fossils show that flies have always
been flies, butterflies have always been but-
terflies and caterpillars have always been

caterpillars—in other words, that living
things have remained unchanged over the
course of history. In that respect, they rep-

resent a major dilemma for the theory of
evolution. These living things, sometimes fossilized with their prey or their larvae, or sometimes as hav-
ing emerged from the larval stage, tell us that they have undergone the same life stages for tens of mil-
lions of years, and have never undergone any process of evolution.

Baltic ambers are gathered from quite a wide
area. One of the researches made in this area.

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