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SEAHORSE
Age: 23 -5 million years
Period: Miocene
Location: Marecchia River Formation, Poggio, Rimini, Italy
Sea horses (Hippocampus sp.) generally cling onto plants with their tails, and swim upright with
their dorsal fin because they lack tail fins. Their ability to swim upright is based on their being
able to fill their flotation sacs with air very quickly.
Pictured is a fossilized seahorse discovered in rock beds in northern Italy. This seahorse, from
Miocene period, is exactly the same in terms of all its organs and structures—its skeleton,
flotation sac and gills—as present-day seahorses. Sea horses have remained unchanged since
they first begin appearing in the fossil record, and fundamentally invalidate evolutionist claims.
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