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STURGEON
Age: 206 to 144 million years
Period: Jurassic
Location: Volcanic Ash Beds, Liaoning, China
Sturgeon, members of the order Acipenseriformes, the remains of which species date back to
very early periods, are frequently encountered in the fossil record. They generally live in the
fresh waters and seas of the northern hemisphere. With their structures, which have remained
unchanged for tens and even hundreds of millions of years, sturgeon are one of the living
things that refute the Darwinist claim that life forms evolved from the primitive to the more
complex.
The fossil record has revealed that even in very early geological periods, there were already
living organisms possessed of complex systems such as eyes, gills and circulatory systems, as
well as advanced physiological structures, identical to those in modern-day specimens.
New findings obtained in 1999, for instance, show that in the Cambrian Period (490 to 543 mil-
lion years ago), there were two separate species of fish known as Haikouichthys ercaicunensis
and Myllokunmingia fengjiaoa. These findings deal a lethal blow to the theory of evolution’s
claim that species develop from the primitive to the more complex.
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