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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 18, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, angiosperms, China, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), paleontology, Richard Buggs, Twitter}

Fossil Friday: Florigerminis, Another Failed Candidate for a Jurassic Flowering Plant

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November 18, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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You are in good company if you are as skeptical about these claims as I am myself. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 11, 2022

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Biomimetics, Brazil, Crato Formation, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), holotype, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, origami, Permian period, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Complex Wing Folding of Earwigs

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November 11, 2022

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This highly complex mode of wing folding is one of the many examples of engineering marvels in insects that strongly suggest intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 4, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, elephants, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, hippos, homologies, mammals, Miocene, Natural History Museum, Neo-Darwinism, phylogenetics, synapomorphies}

Fossil Friday: Desmostylia, and the Problem of Horizontal Tooth Displacement

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November 4, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Nature appears to be deceptive. Are Darwinists bothered by such problems? Not at all. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 28, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Crato Formation, fish, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, holotype, Lower Cretaceous, Scleromochlus, Upper Triassic}

Fossil Friday: Ludodactylus and the Origin of Pterosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
October 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Outside of Darwinian fantasy land, we lack any transitional fossils to document an assumed gradual evolutionary development of characteristic pterosaur wings. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 21, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, angiosperms, Brazil, Charles Darwin, Cretaceous, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, gymnosperms, ID the Future, Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, Richard Buggs, Twitter}

Fossil Friday: Flowering Plants — Darwin’s Abominable Mystery

_{Günter Bechly
October 21, 2022

Evolution, Life Sciences, Paleontology

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Flowering plants or angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Lower Cretaceous (about 130 million years ago). Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 14, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Afrotheria, armadillos, biogeography, convergence, Darwinists, Fossil Friday (series), mammals, paleontologists, sloths, zoologists}

Fossil Friday: Eurotamandua — Anteater or Not Even Close?

_{Günter Bechly
October 14, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Darwinists have to appeal to the ad hoc hypothesis of convergent adaptation to similar lifestyles, which of course increases their problem. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cretaceous, Darwinian theory, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, holotype, Japan, Japanese, Miocene, mollusk, Research}

Fossil Friday: Moniopterus — Snake, Beetle, or Mollusk?

_{Günter Bechly
October 7, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Scientists are only humans and many of them see what they want to see. Fossils often leave a lot of room for wild imagination and wishful thinking. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 30, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinian mechanism, Dave Farina, Discovery Institute, evo-devo, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Living Waters, macroevolution, Martin Nowak, mutations, Ola Hössjer, Pakicetus, paleontology, peer-reviewed literature, population size, Professor Dave, recombination, waiting-time problem}

Fossil Friday: Walking Whales and Why All Critiques of the Waiting Time Problem Fail

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September 30, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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These fossils are often celebrated as missing links and a success story for Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 23, 2022

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, apes, Apollo 11, BBC, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, humans, Ida, media, missing links, monkeys, Norway, paleontology, primates, Wikipedia}

Fossil Friday: Darwinius, or How Wishful Thinking Makes a Missing Link

_{Günter Bechly
September 23, 2022

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The media campaign lead to headlines that were not content with calling the fossil a missing link but simply “THE link” or “the eighth wonder of the world.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 16, 2022

Categories
Anatomy
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, chordates, Darwinism, Devonian Period, echinoderms, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Henry Gee, homology, Museum of Natural History, Nature (journal), paleontology, Paleozoic, tunicates, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Rhenocystis and the Controversial Calcichordate Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
September 16, 2022

Anatomy, Paleontology, Science

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It looks a bit like a tadpole with body and tail, and this indeed points towards one of the great scientific controversies of the 20th century. Read More ›