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Let’s Go Digging! – September 2019

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Dear friends, I am so excited to announce that I will be leading an upcoming paleontological dig in Kansas this coming September 10-14.We will be digging in what is known as the Niobrara Formation, a famous formation of rocks with a lot of history. In the past, many important discoveries have been made within only … Read More

The Incredible Design of the Human Foot | David Rives

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Did you know you were designed to run around barefoot? Genesis tells us that originally Adam and Eve were created naked. It wasn’t until after sin that clothes—and eventually shoes—came into being. But when we shed our shoes we see that God’s design is the best. An incredible 25% of the bones in your body … Read More

Can Soft Tissue Last Thousands of Years? | David Rives

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While the most famous discovery of dinosaur soft tissue didn’t come until 2005, scientists have been reporting the discovery of soft tissue and proteins in a wide variety of fossils since the 1970’s. They’ve found things like catfish fatty fins, unaltered amino acids preserved in amber, even what appears to be dinosaur DNA from a … Read More

Dinosaur Soft Tissue | David Rives

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In 2005, Dr. Mary Schweitzer shocked the scientific world when her team reported the presence of blood vessels, red blood cells, and collagen in a T-Rex femur. That’s right—soft tissue in a dinosaur bone! This T-Rex was thought to be over 65 million years old and yet it had fresh looking soft tissue inside its … Read More