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Photo credit: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: To Be or Not to Be Homo

The fossil hominin Homo habilis was described 1964 by Louis Leakey and his colleagues from the 1.9 million year old Olduvai Gorge locality in Tanzania. Read More ›
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Photo: Forged fossil cheetah skull, Wang 2013, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud

Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery. Read More ›
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Photo: Conodonts from the Triassic of India, Goel 1977, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Gupta Scandal

The greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century is not so well known outside of professional paleontologist circles. Read More ›
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Photo: Gabonionta, Ventus55 via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: How an Austrian Scientist Concocted a New Domain of Life called Gabonionta

Is there any other evidence that this sensational discovery was nothing but hype? Sure there is. Read More ›
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Photo: Dinosaur feather in Burmese amber, coll. SMNS, photo G. Bechly.

Fossil Friday: A Dinosaur Feather and an Overhyped New Study on the Origin of Feathers

Feathers, which are the most complex integumental structures known in the animal kingdom, without doubt required coordinated changes in numerous genes. Read More ›
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Photo: credit: Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic

Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris. Read More ›
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Photo credit: James St. John, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Devonian Nekton Revolution

Such explosions and revolutions dominate the history of life, which was rather a series of abrupt saltations than the gradual change predicted by Darwinism. Read More ›
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Photo credit: U.S. Department of Energy from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Stubborn Mystery of the Tully Monster

How much confidence should we really place in dubious fossil evidence when it is boldly claimed to prove Darwinian evolution as a fact? Read More ›
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Photo: Gerhard Mickoleit, by Günter Bechly.

Farewell to My Teacher, Gerhard Mickoleit 

He had rather secretly always been a devout Protestant Christian and he too had some doubts about the causal adequacy and sufficiency of neo-Darwinism. Read More ›
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Photo: <I>Plesioplatecarpus planifroms</I>, MCDinosaurhunter via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Mosasaurs in the Cretaceous

The math of population genetics precludes a Darwinian origin of these new genes in such a short time. Read More ›

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