Another attention getting article from Creation Ministries. A graphic illustration of how animals could have easily re-populated the earth after the Great Flood of Noah. Don’t forget, you can subscribe to Creation magazine here:

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Gibber! Gibber!

Fantastic far-reaching foxtrot

by Philip Robinson

Researchers at the Norwegian Polar Institute ( see above photo) have tracked an Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) traversing three countries and two continents in just 76 days. The vixen, of the blue type typical in coastal areas, was fitted with a satellite tracking collar when just under a year old. It was tracked from 1 March to 1 July 2018, covering a total of 4,415 km (2,743 miles), a straight-line distance of 1,789 km (1,111 miles).

The fox left Spitsbergen, Norway, on 26 March 2018, crossed over Greenland, and reached Ellesmere Island, Canada, 76 days later, on 10 June. It moved an average of 46.3 km/day (29 miles/day), with a maximum recorded rate of 155 km (96 miles) per day—the fastest ever recorded for the species.

“The fox was travelling so fast, researchers couldn’t believe it at first. Eva Fuglei, one of the researchers, thought that perhaps the fox had been killed and brought aboard a boat.”

The Arctic regions are seasonally bridged by sea ice, offering the potential for this long-distance journey. On two occasions the movement dropped to less than 10 km/day (6 miles/day), which “might indicate physical barriers on the sea ice, bad weather or the occurrence of a food source.”²

Repopulating the earth

This incredible intercontinental migration is a phenomenal demonstration of just how far and how fast animals can travel under the right conditions. After Noah’s Ark landed on the mountains of Ararat, the animals on board then dispersed across the world.

It is of course unlikely that the original pairs made such long journeys. Rather, most would have progressed by degrees—breeding and moving.³ But all migrations were aided during the early centuries after the Flood by the conditions provided by the Ice Age. Ice sheets helped to bridge certain areas, and more importantly, sea levels dropped drastically, exposing land bridges. This would have helped animals to rapidly recolonize the globe. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit LinkedInParler Gmail Email App Print