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FOSSIL SPECIMENS DISCOVERED IN MADAGASCAR

Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world, lies in the Indian Ocean off the East African coast.

This area contains 5% of the world's plant and animal species, 80% of them unique to Madagascar. The
island's eastern shore contains short, steep cliffs. Tsaratanana in the North is a mountainous region, some
of these mountains being volcanic in nature.
Geological research shows that 165 million years ago,

Madagascar was part of Africa, but later began breaking away
from the continent. Paleontologists carrying out excavations
in the region have unearthed large numbers of fossil bird,
mammal and marine creatures from the Mesozoic Era (248 to

65 million years ago).
As with all other fossil discoveries, those obtained from
Madagascar reveal major contradictions between the theory
of evolution and the actual fossil record. Fossils prove that it

is impossible to account for the origin of life in terms of the
theory of evolution. Species that emerge suddenly in the
geologic strata and remain unchanged over the course of
hundreds of millions of years demonstrate that living things

never underwent evolution, but were created.

In Madagascar, having both
rain forests and deserts, many
fossils pertaining to the
various eras of geologic
history are uncovered. These
fossils reveal that living
beings have remained the
same for hundreds of millions
of years.

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