For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God.
As the Scriptures say, He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.
1 Corinthians 3:19 NLT
"56-million-year-old fossils complicate long-held theories about mammalian body size (Phys.org). It might have seemed intuitive to Darwinians that new animals should start small and evolve to get bigger over time, but a fossil mammal found in Alberta is shaking up expectations.
The discovery of a new species of mammal in Alberta’s fossil record has shaken up some long-held beliefs about other species in its lineage.According to evolutionists, these mammals persisted for a long time in the moyboys’ fossil record. Since it came late in their timeline, shouldn’t it be bigger and badder? It isn’t. It’s one of the smallest ever found. Not only that, the ghost of Darwin is haunting the evolutionary story:
The ancient Catopsalis kakwa (C. kakwa) was only about the size of a squirrel, and weighed between 400 and 600 grams. What it lacks in size, however, it makes up for in terms of its implications for previous research proposing the evolution of larger body mass in multituberculates, rodent-like mammals named for their teeth that have many cusps, or tubercles, arranged in rows.
“Because the trend in these multituberculates seems to be getting bigger and bigger, this thing is so unexpected in that it’s quite small and temporally it’s quite late in the game,” Scott explains.
C. kakwa’s size—and the fact that it was alive in the late early Paleocene—complicates the evolutionary history of Taeniolabidoidea, and implies either a ghost lineage or an evolutionary reversal of characteristics, going from large to small body size. A ghost lineage is when there is an extensive part of the evolutionary record of an animal that is not currently recognized in the fossil record; in this case, the fossil history of the mysterious small-sized Catopsalis has not yet been found." CEH