Fossil of a fish eating another fish at the Creation Museum
How Are Fossils Formed?
From Flood Geology
Fossils Can Form Quickly
While scientists are still trying to sort out the complex details about fossilization, one fact is undisputed: it can be amazingly fast. Massive catastrophes like Noah’s Flood would produce the conditions necessary to quickly bury and protect creatures so that they can fossilize.
Fossil Leaves
Normally leaves shrivel up soon after they die. So why do we find so many leaves so well preserved worldwide—even flatter than they are in life? A unique combination of events, unlike anything we see today, would make this “wonder” possible.
Petrified Animals
A team examining a fossil deposit in the Canadian Rockies has determined that the fossil “bonanza” was buried by a rapid, muddy “miracle of preservation.” The researchers concluded that the deposit was created by a rapid mud slurry that covered the bodies so completely that whole bodies were petrified.
Amazing Preservation
The relatively poor fossil record of octopuses, combined with these incredibly preserved specimens, repudiate the old-earth model of fossilization and provide powerful evidence for a catastrophic Flood that quickly buried these octopuses in sediments (before they could decay or be scavenged).
News About How Are Fossils Formed?
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Oct. 6, 2022 from Ken Ham Blog
Very tiny fossils—preserved in 3D—were uncovered of a green algae species almost identical to a modern seaweed called Codium and “surprisingly complex.”
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June 13, 2019 from Ken Ham Blog
A slab of limey shale features something incredible—259 fish, with scales, eyes, and fins—frozen as if in mid-swim. But how on earth is this possible?
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Aug. 6, 2018 from Ken Ham Blog
Lab-made fossils showed it doesn’t take millions of years to form fossils! Scientists were able to create fossils from fresh specimens in just 24 hours—one day!
Articles About How Are Fossils Formed?
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Jan. 6, 2019 from Answers Magazine
Do fossils require millions of years to form? Hardly! Even secular geologists now recognize that rocks form very quickly.
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Oct. 1, 2016 from Answers Magazine
Beautifully preserved fossils are so common that we overlook how unusual they are.
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Book Chapter3.8 How Fast?March 28, 2016 from Creation: Facts of Life
Can science help us decide how fast fossils form, and how fast those sedimentary rock layers pile up?
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April 23, 2014 from Answers Magazine
Exposed in various rock layers are large structures that look very much like ocean reefs preserved in stone.
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Book ChapterDo Fossils Show Signs of Rapid Burial?Dec. 30, 2013 from The New Answers Book 3
Is uniformitarianism really a true understanding of the rock and fossil records?
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First Fossil Mosquito Found Filled with BloodOct. 19, 2013 from News to Know
Not old enough for Jurassic Park, this mosquito likely filled up on North American bird blood long ago.
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Rotting Fish and CreationistsOct. 16, 2010
How can rotting fish join the origins battle on the creationist side?
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Unusual Fossilized CreaturesMay 15, 2010
Once again, scientists have discovered the “remarkably well preserved” fossilized remains of creatures that, it would seem, shouldn’t have fossilized in the first place.
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Look for Fossils in Your BackyardJan. 1, 2010
Read practical tips of how you can look for fossils in your own area.
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Jan. 1, 2010 from Answers Magazine
When leaves die, they shrivel up and crumble. So why is the fossil record full of well-preserved, flat leaves?
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Semi-Technical In-Depth ArticleSoft Tissue FossilizationNov. 4, 2009 from Answers in Depth
Fossilization occurs rapidly when the conditions are right. The conditions necessary for lithification of soft tissue give clues to unlock the history of a fossil deposit.
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Well-Preserved OctopusMarch 21, 2009 from News to Know
If you needed an “exhibit A” of evidence for catastrophic fossil formation, this is it.
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Petrified Animals Died QuicklyMarch 1, 2008
A team examining a fossil deposit in the Canadian Rockies has determined that the fossil “bonanza” was buried by a rapid, muddy “miracle of preservation.”
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May 14, 2007 from Answers Magazine
For 24 years students in Bill Minnich’s music class memorized more than notes and scales; they learned about fossilization and paleontology.
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Feb. 7, 2007 from Answers Magazine
Because so many beautiful specimens have been harvested from the Green River Formation, few realize that many of the fish remains are far from perfect.
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"Prehistoric" Embryos Caught DividingOct. 14, 2006
Researchers discover an embryo fossilized while dividing.
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Magazine ArticleThe Amazing Stone Bears of YorkshireJune 1, 2002, pp. 48–49
When Vet author James Herriot wrote about life in Yorkshire last centrury, he probably had no idea that this area of England held a fascinating key to unlocking one of the myths of evolution's long-ag
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Semi-Technical Research PaperFossil Reptiles on the Russian PlatformApril 1, 2001, pp. 5–6
This fossil graveyard is consistent with the Biblical Flood and a contradiction to the slow-and-gradual uniformitarian doctrine.
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Feedback ArticleMake No Bones About It!May 28, 2000 from Feedback
While 90% of the letters/emails we receive at Answers in Genesis are positive, we sometimes get a negative comment or two.
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Magazine ArticleHow Did Millions of Mammoth Fossils Form?Sept. 1, 1999, pp. 56–57
Answering the question of whether there was enough time for a large mammoth population to form.
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Semi-Technical Magazine Article‘Instant’ Petrified WoodSept. 1, 1995, pp. 38–40
‘Instant petrified wood’—so ran the heading to the announcement in Popular Science, October 1992.
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Magazine ArticleRapid FossilsJune 1, 1994, pp. 50–51
This is a sketch of the fossilized skull of a reptilian predator (Hypopnous squaliceps) with remains of its prey still lodged in its mouth! This remarkable preservation was found in the Permian beds.
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Magazine ArticlePetrified WaterwheelMarch 1, 1994, pp. 25–26
Tourists who visit Cape Leeuwin in Western Australia are astonished at the sight of this waterwheel which has become entombed in solid rock in less than 65 years.
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Magazine ArticleFossil Jellyfish Greeted with Derision!Sept. 1, 1990, pp. 21–22
Countless millions of fossilized jellyfish and other ‘soft’ creatures are contained in an extensive layer of sandstone at Ediacara in South Australia.
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