During a Southeast Asian expedition, retired Florida State University science professor, David Redfield, captured the first photos of the Laotian rock rat. Believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago, the fossils collected from sites in Pakistan, India, Thailand, China, and Japan, were of a long-extinct family of rodents known as Diatomyidae. But here again another alleged “ancestor” was eliminated from the evolutionary tree.
Alligators and Crocodiles - The crocodile family is thought to have lived 230 million years ago and remains virtually unchanged since that time.
Army Ants - date back 100 million years to the time of the dinosaur
Cockroaches - dates back 350 million years
Coelacanth - Dates back 400 million years. The Coelacanth fossil pre-dates the dinosaurs by millions of years, and was once thought to have gone extinct with them 65 million years ago, until it was discovered alive and well in 1938.
Crinoid or Sea Lilly - found in sediments dating back 150 million years and yet the modern living variety is virtually identical.
Cycads - date back 240 million years ago yet are popular garden plants.
Dragonfly - dates back 230 million years, but is unchanged in almost every detail
Ginkgo tree - of the family Ginkgoaceae which dates back to 270 million years. Discovered in 1691 in Japan.
Horseshoe Crab - Believed to have lived 300 million years ago, but remain almost identical today.
Laotian rock rat - from an ancient group of rodents thought to have died out 11 million years ago
Neopilina molluscs - Discovered living in the early 1950s these molluscs share a close relationship with fossils that existed about 400 to 500 million years ago.
Nautilus - believed to have lived 500 million years ago, but remains almost completely unchanged
Salamanders - A recent fossil find in China was dated to 150 million years ago, and is virtually unchanged from what we find living today in the swamps.
Sturgeon - claimed to be 250 million years old, and living since the time of the dinosaurs.
Tuatara - a lizard thought to have been around longer than any other living reptile, and unchanged in over 200 million years.
Velvet Worm - dates back 500 million years
Wollemi Pine - "Dinosaur Tree" - Not discovered living until 1994, this genus of trees dates back to about 150 million years ago and coexisted with the dinosaurs. Available as potted plants.
Evolution claims that life forms we see today are advanced forms of primitive precursors, and descendants of a single ancestor. As more advanced forms evolved the earlier forms were naturally displaced and disappeared. Fossils, millions of years old, represent life forms that were the evolutionary predecessors of present life forms, but which went extinct long ago.
Creation asserts that God created a spectrum of animals during the six-day week of Creation. Due mostly to environmental factors, many animals have become extinct. However, other species have escaped detection by humans for centuries, only to be rediscovered in some remote area.
Evolutionists repeatedly find themselves in the embarrassing position of discovering that the alleged evolutionary ancestors of current life forms, that supposedly went extinct millions of years ago, are in fact still living. The self-contradictory term, “living fossils”, is the nonsensical term to identify these anomalies.