Ichthyosaur Fossil with Never-Before-Seen Soft Tissues Confirms the Global Flood

In Germany, during a construction project, a three-foot-long front flipper from an ichthyosaur was uncovered and turned over to researchers. This fossil was remarkable because it preserved soft tissue features, including “a serrated trailing edge that’s reinforced by cartilaginous features scientists had never seen before.” These structures (which the researchers have called “chondroderms”) have “never been observed in any living or extinct animal.”

Researchers believe the chondroderms enabled this ichthyosaur to swim silently, ambushing its prey in the dimly lit open waters where it likely hunted.

This preservation of soft tissue is another reminder of the catastrophic global flood.

This preservation of soft tissue is another reminder of the catastrophic global flood. Had this creature died and sunk to the seafloor, its bones would not have been preserved—let alone quickly decaying soft tissue structures like cartilaginous chondroderms. In order for something to become a fossil, it must be buried very quickly before scavengers and bacteria can break down the carcass—there has to be a catastrophic event to ensure the remains of the creature are quickly preserved.

Yes, fossils like this remarkable ichthyosaur find remind us that there really was a global flood, just as we read in Genesis, which rapidly buried billions of creatures deeply, allowing them to fossilize.

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Ken

This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.