"20 minutes from the city of Darmstadt in central Germany is a decommissioned strip mine half a
mile wide.
A gaping 200-foot-deep gouge in the forested countryside, the Messel Pit...
The world was a very different place then, during the period known to scientists as the Eocene. The levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were higher than today (at least, for the time being), producing a greenhouse effect of soaring temperatures.
Decaying animal and vegetable material buried and squeezed under tremendous pressure over years yields, every school kid knows, fossil fuel, in this instance primarily oil shale—layers of soft gray stone impregnated with oil. Those deposits attracted miners from the late 1800s to the 1970s,
when the open-pit mine closed down and was forgotten by all but a small group of people bent on extracting not the fuel but the fossils.
At Messel Pit, mammal skeletons galore are preserved intact, often with the outlines of fur and flesh still visible in the surrounding rock. Primitive opossums, horses the size of fox terriers, an anteater, eight bat species and a lemur-like primate that could be an early branch on humanity’s family tree—these and many more fossils provide glimpses of the distant ancestors of species we know today." Smithsonian
How do U really think all these creatures were buried together & many of their fellow fossils squeezed into oil?
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life,
...the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,
and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 7:11
