Largest Dinosaur Footprints in UK Discovered
We start with a giant discovery – quite literally! Over 200 dinosaur footprints have been discovered in a UK quarry by a worker while working a digger. This prompted a large-scale excavation, which recently featured on the BBC program ‘Digging for Britain’. The main footprints found belong to Megalosaurus, a T. rex-like theropod dinosaur, as well as sauropods – the long necked dinosaurs. The footprints include the largest discovered in the UK.
Of course, what is not pointed out is the significance of the rock type they are buried in – limestone. Fossiliferous limestone is typically a marine deposit, laid down by water, and this deposit is no exception. Having collected from this Jurassic rock sequence across the UK, Joseph Hubbard can confirm that footprints like these are buried next to seashells, deep sea creatures, and smashed and broken trees. All of this points to a catastrophic burial, with these creatures desperately attempting to escape the rising waters. Add to this the fact that the Jurassic sediments go around the world, and you are certainly looking at a world-wide flood!
Sabretooth Smiles – Evolution’s Masterpiece
The University of Bristol has also announced the results of a study on Smilodon skulls and teeth, using sophisticated scans and modelling techniques. They claim that the unique incisor teeth were ‘functionally optimal’, and a ‘Masterpiece of evolution’. However, it is worth pointing out that this evolutionary masterpiece, is of course, now extinct.
This highlights the harsh reality of evolution – survival of the fittest means extinction of the unfit, and even evolution cannot supposedly produce a creature that is not vulnerable to this. We may not know what the original cat kind looked like, but we do know from the scriptures, that in the beginning everything was very good. Teeth were designed to eat plants, and the reason why cats now eat meat is the same reason why the Smilodon went extinct – man’s sin, leading to a cursed world, and a change of environments, and survival techniques. The real history of the world is good to bad to worse.
Pterosaur Tail Vanes Aid Flight
Finally, scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh and Zurich has solved a long-time mystery of Pterosaur flight – how did these creatures actually fly? With the help of new laser technology, they have been able to model flight simulations, and have found that a feature of lattice-like vanes running down their tails were key. The researchers said the diamond-shaped structures, made from interwoven membranes, prevented the animals’ tails from fluttering like flags in the wind, and instead helped guide and stabilise them in flight.
They explained that the vanes most likely behaved like the sail on a ship, becoming tense as the wind blew through their cross-linked membranes and so enabling the reptiles to use them to steer through the sky. Dr Natalia Jagielska said this design was ‘extremely sophisticated’, and could ‘revolutionise modern flight techniques and designs’.
All this goes to prove is that it takes an incredible amount of scientific research to work out how these creatures flew, and the end result can only describe these creatures as a masterful design. There is simply no way that flight could ever evolve, and we can now use this brilliant design of God’s and apply it to our inventions. Remember though – God thought of it first!
Creation Research News 13 February 2025
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