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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 22, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, begging the question, Dickinsonia, DNA, Ediacaran animals, Ediacarans, Evolution News, genomes, humans, Ikaria, Kimberella, logical fallacy, Mary Droser, Precambrian House of Cards Series, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Russia, South Australia, Tribrachidium, White Sea assemblage}

A Precambrian House of Cards

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March 22, 2021

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Wow, that's cool, they not only found the elusive Ediacaran animals but even could unravel their genomes!? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bilateral symmetry, brachiopods, brood chambers, bryozoans, calyx, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, cnidarians, ctenophorans, Ediacaran animals, entoprocts, folds, homology, lobes, Lophotrochozoa, lophotrochozoans, lumens, moss animals, Namacalathus, Second Namacalathus Series}

Namacalathus Revisited — Not Much to See

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January 19, 2021

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The new evidence is very ambiguous and totally inconclusive. No far-reaching conclusions should be drawn from such dubious material. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 18, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, brood chambers, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, lophophorates, lophotrochozoans, lumens, metazoans, Nama Group, Namacalathus, Namibia, paleontology, Science Advances, Second Namacalathus Series, Stephen Meyer}

Resurrecting Namacalathus as an Ediacaran Animal

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January 18, 2021

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The new fossils stem from a layer in the Nama Group of Namibia, just below an ash bed that could be radiometrically dated to 547.32 ± 0.65 million years. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 31, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charnia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, explosions, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, Lophotrochozoa, macro-organisms, metazoan animals, precambrian fossils, Richard Dawkins, saltations, stem mollusk, Yilingia spiciformis}

#2 Story of 2020: Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

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December 31, 2020

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None of the Cambrian animal phyla is represented in the Ediacaran fossil record. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charnia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, explosions, fossil record, intelligent design, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, macro-organisms, metazoan animals, precambrian fossils, Richard Dawkins, saltations, stem mollusk, Yilingia spiciformis}

Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

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September 21, 2020

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The fossil record speaks clearly and cries out loud: the history of life on Earth is a history of saltations. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 19, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, circulatory system, Cnidaria, Ediacaran fossils, evolution, feeding apparatus, feeding traces, fossils, Kimberella, Kimberella quadrata, Kimberella series, Kimberellomorpha, Kimberichnus, mollusks, movement, oxygenation, Paleobiology Database, Parvancorina, Precambrian, radula, scratch marks, Silurian Period, Solza}

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis, Continued

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September 19, 2020

Evolution

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One researchers has preferred to classify Kimberella among the Ediacaran "fossil problematica.” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 18, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran organisms, fossil record, gonads, intelligent design, Kimberella, Kimberella series, limpets, Lophotrochozoa, medusoid, Mollusca, monoplacophorans, Odontogriphus, scratch marks, Simon Conway Morris, Solza, tentacles, Wiwaxia}

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis

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September 18, 2020

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It is remarkable, indeed, how detailed a medusoid morphology was projected onto Kimberella fossils and later recognized as pure fantasy. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cows, Dickinsonia, Germany, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus teruzzii, microbial mats, Middle Triassic, Mikhail Fedonkin, mollusks, mouthparts, Odontogriphus, protozoans, radula, scratch marks, trace fossils, Wiwaxia}

Kimberella — The Oldest Radula (Not)

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September 17, 2020

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There is a strange fact that shows that any interpretation of these trace fossils has to be taken with a grain of salt. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Australia, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, feeding traces, fossils, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus, motility, mucus, scratch marks, sediments, White Sea}

Kimberella — Locomotory Tracks

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September 16, 2020

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But what about tracks of the moving animal? There are indeed some fossils from the White Sea. Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran organisms, feeding apparatus, fossils, grazing, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus, microbial mats, Mikhail Fedonkin, molluscan radula, morphology, proboscis, scratch marks, trace fossils, White Sea}

Kimberella — Traces and a Trace-maker

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September 15, 2020

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The body fossils are generally positioned at the focal points of the fan-shaped scratch marks. Read More ›