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The fossil that we will be presenting today is a fossil that belongs to a cricket.

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Cricket is a name generally given to some living beings, particularly insects.

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They are generally seen in grassy places.

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They are classified especially by looking at their limbs and extremities.

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Tree crickets can be seen in many different parts of the world and they are commonly known for the noise they make.

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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.

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This is a fossil uncovered in Brazil in the Araripe region.

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It is 125 million years old.

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That is to say there are six zeros behind the 125.

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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.

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In biology, these limbs that we see here are called extremities.

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They come right out of the trunk of the bug.

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When we look at this cricket, we see that the rear limbs are longer and bigger than the others.

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This is because, just as crickets in our day, the crickets that lived 125 million years ago also used their rear limbs to jump.

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But they never jumped as fast as a grasshopper, nor can it jump upwards.

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But their characteristic features and the anatomical shapes on them show that they are exactly the same as the cricket we find today.

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We can examine the fossils of bugs, leaves, land animals.

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There are around 400 million fossils and what is astonishing is that they belong to every kind of living species.

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They are all the same with those living in our day, mashallah.

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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.

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We observe this fact in more than 400 million fossils that paleontology presents us.

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Thanks for watching and have a nice day.