There are bones in the desert.

Scientists found a skeleton of a giant salamander-like creature in Namibia. That country is in Africa. (Claudia Marsicano via AP)
An artist drew a picture of what the creature may have looked like. (Gabriel Lio via AP)
Professor Claudia Marsicano looks at the fossil. The creature lived in icy swamps long ago. (Roger M. H. Smith via AP)

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What is in the sand? It is a fossil! It looks like a huge lizard. The head is the size of 2 shoe boxes. It had sharp fangs.

It lived in icy water long ago.

Pray: Thank God for fossils that teach us more about the past.

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Would you swim in freezing swamps with this creature? It looked like a salamander. It was bigger than a person. It may have moved like an eel. Its head was the shape of a toilet seat. Most fossils like this are found in swamps in North America and Europe. This one was found in Namibia. Some people think that part of Africa used to have glaciers and ice. Giant salamander-like creatures may have lived in colder climates than scientists thought.

“God said, ‘Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures.’” (Genesis 1:20)