The fossil that we will be presenting today is a fossil that belongs to a cricket.
Cricket is a name generally given to some living beings, particularly insects.
They are generally seen in grassy places.
They are classified especially by looking at their limbs and extremities.
Tree crickets can be seen in many different parts of the world and they are commonly known for the noise they make.
This is the one that lives in our day, but what you see in my right hand now is a cricket from 125 million years ago.
This is a fossil uncovered in Brazil in the Araripe region.
It is 125 million years old.
That is to say there are six zeros behind the 125.
We can go back in time millennia into the past and we see the form of the cricket which is exactly the same as the ones living in our day.
In biology, these limbs that we see here are called extremities.
They come right out of the trunk of the bug.
When we look at this cricket, we see that the rear limbs are longer and bigger than the others.
This is because, just as crickets in our day, the crickets that lived 125 million years ago also used their rear limbs to jump.
But they never jumped as fast as a grasshopper, nor can it jump upwards.
But their characteristic features and the anatomical shapes on them show that they are exactly the same as the cricket we find today.
We can examine the fossils of bugs, leaves, land animals.
There are around 400 million fossils and what is astonishing is that they belong to every kind of living species.
They are all the same with those living in our day, mashallah.
Allah created such a perfect and delicate order in the genetic code, that is, in the DNA, that no living being evolves into another living being, mashallah.
We observe this fact in more than 400 million fossils that paleontology presents us.
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