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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Abderrazak El Albani, agglutinated protists, Eukaryota, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francevillian Formation, Gabon, Gabonionta, Lake Michigan, Metazoa, morphology, Natural History Museum, nutrients, phosphates, precambrian fossils, protists, Vienna, word salad}

Fossil Friday: Update on the Dubious Nature of the Precambrian Gabonionta

_{Günter Bechly
September 20, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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What we definitely do not find here is any credible evidence for an evolutionary transition to genuine multicellular eukaryotes. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, Archaeopteryx, birds, China, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Liaoning, paleontology, University of Southampton}

Fossil Friday: More Evidence That “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

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September 13, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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It definitely looks like the common dino-to-bird narrative has been massively oversold to the public. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Paleontology
Tagged
, Arachnida, arachnids, compound eyes, convergence, Darwin critics, empirical evidence, eurypterids, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, gigantism, intelligent design, paleontology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, speculation, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: Sea Scorpions Defy Darwinian Expectations

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September 6, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Paleontology

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Wait, what? That's it? Mere speculation based on the fact that they found nothing! Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 30, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Late Triassic, mass extinction, Nevada, Peter Ward, Texas, Triassic period}

Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record

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August 30, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, astrology, birds, Charles Darwin, cladistic analysis, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), homeopathy, hybridization, Jerry Coyne, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins}

Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur

_{Günter Bechly
August 23, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Different studies based on different data do not converge on one true tree of life. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 16, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, antibiotics, body decoration, burial, cave art, compassion, Darwin critics, Darwinian evolution, Down syndrome, fire, gene pool, genetic admixture, glue, Homo sapiens, humankind, jewelry, music, Neanderthals, painkillers, Science (journal), Spain, stone circles}

Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again

_{Günter Bechly
August 16, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, body plans, Carboniferous Insect Explosion, common descent, evolution, Flight, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ghost lineages, Holometabola, information, intelligent design, Metamorphosis, molecular clock studies, neo-Darwinian theory, Palaeodictyoptera, paleontology, winged insects, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

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August 9, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, anagenesis, Canada, cladogenesis, Darwinian gradualism, Daspletosaurus, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Montana, natural selection, speciation, Tyrannosaurus rex}

Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids

_{Günter Bechly
August 2, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, atmosphere, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Ediacaran, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Hallucigenia, Nature Geoscience, Neoproterozoic Era, oxygen, oxygenation}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues

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July 26, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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What if scientists were to discover next month that there was no oxygenation in the Cambrian but the exact opposite? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, carnivores, cats, clades, convergence, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, jaws, La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, paleontologists, Pleistocene, predators, Simon Conway Morris, skulls, teleology}

Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

_{Günter Bechly
July 19, 2024

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Read More ›