Fossils

DNA is supposedly millions of years old, but can it really survive that long? The evidence suggests otherwise. From genetic entropy showing species can’t survive endless mutations, to ancient DNA breaking down too quickly in the ground, to mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosome Adam pointing to recent common ancestors — multiple lines of evidence challenge evolutionary timescales. DNA barcoding reveals another puzzle: species across the animal kingdom appear to be roughly the same age, as if some major event reset life on Earth. Dr Robert Carter explores how genetics supports a biblical timeline.

Polystrate fossils cut through rock layers, challenging deep time. Do they reveal a global flood? Paul Price examines the evidence geologists avoid.

Can a Mammophant revive a lost landscape? Delve into the bold experiment of Pleistocene Park and its controversial plan to rewild Siberia with a hybrid creature.

Body parts seen for the first time defy ‘slow burial’ ideas.

What happened to the woolly mammoths? Were they hunted, did they die from illness, or die from climate change?

Soft issue in fossils is hugely problematic to the idea that they are millions of years old.

How could fragile DNA last in sediments dated 14,000 to 550,000 years?

more evidence that Neanderthals were fully human

Unfossilized soft tissue discoveries like this contradict belief in long ages

A living tree found in Australia matches leaf and pollen fossils supposedly millions of years old. Could the tree have survived that long?

Scipionyx samniticus is a lizard, not a missing link

Living coelacanths in Indonesia

Thousands of beautifully preserved titanosaur eggs found

Charles Darwin predicted in Origin of Species that no jellyfish fossils would ever be found, but hundreds in a Wisconsin sandstone quarry prove him wrong.