The fibrous protein keratin composes hair, skin, scales, claws, and feathers, its presence characteristic of many fossils in sedimentary deposits ostensibly millions of years old, keratin organic though and therefore should have degenerated in far less time, helping to prove that the sedimentary layers were laid down in Noah’s Flood only about 4,350 years ago. Interestingly, the word rhinoceros means nose horn, ceros the greek word for horn, as in the nose horn composed of hair of the rhinoceros.