Category: Paleontology | Page 19 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, cetaceans, Current Biology, Darwinian gradualism, dolphins, Early Eocene, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ichthyosaur, land mammals, Mesozoic, Neo-Darwinism, Nevada, New Scientist, Pakicetus, Science (journal), whales}

New Scientist: Ichthyosaurs Evolved “Astonishingly Rapidly”

_{Casey Luskin
February 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is a case of evolutionary biology trying to explain away the data that otherwise was not directly expected under their model. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, beavers, China, Cretaceous, Dan Graur, Darwinism, East Asia, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, mammals, mice, molecular clock studies, Mongolia, Nebraska, Paleocene, placental mammals, rabbits, rats, rodents, squirrels, stratigraphy}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Lagomorphs and Rodents

_{Günter Bechly
February 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Molecular biologist Dan Graur mentioned his weird idea that guinea pigs are not rodents at a lecture at my university in Tübingen when I was still a student. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, Cretaceous Period, Darwinian theory, Early Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, North America, Pakistan, Paleocene, Paleogene, paleontology, phylogenetics, primates}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)

_{Günter Bechly
February 3, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Africa, Early Eocene, Egypt, elephants, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Morocco, primates, radiations, teeth}

Fossil Friday: Elephants and the Abrupt Origin of Proboscidea

_{Günter Bechly
January 27, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Science

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Is this what Darwinism would predict? Of course not! Is it instead what intelligent design theory would predict? Indeed it is. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Afrotheria, common descent, Darwinism, elephants, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, mammals, Paleocene, paleontology, synapomorphies, Washington State, whales}

Fossil Friday: Sea Cows and the Abrupt Origin of Sirenia and Desmostylia

_{Günter Bechly
January 20, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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So, is every thing OK with Darwinism after all? No so fast. Actually, there are some problems that do not square well with a Darwinian scenario. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 13, 2023

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, __testing, Afrotheria, East Africa, Egypt, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, George Gaylord Simpson, Paleogene, phylogenetics, Tanzania}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Hyraxes and the Abrupt Origin of Hyracoidea

_{Günter Bechly
January 13, 2023

Paleontology, Science

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Of course, it is only we “nitpicking” intelligent design proponents who point out such incongruences. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Afrotheria, Darwinism, Eocene, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Madagascar, Morocco, Namibia, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

Fossil Friday: Golden Moles and the Abrupt Origin of Afrosoricida

_{Günter Bechly
January 6, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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Should we draw any conclusions from such consistent empirical failures of a theory? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Africa, Afrotheria, Belgium, Egypt, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, living fossils, Madagascar, mammals, Namibia, Paleogene, Pleistocene}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

_{Günter Bechly
December 30, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 27, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Illustra Media, intelligent design, jaws, Living Waters, Miocene, paleontology, Pliocene, sea floor, sediments, sharks, South Carolina, teeth, vertebrates, whales}

#6 Story of 2022: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

_{Günter Bechly
December 27, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 23, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Africa, ants, Darwinists, Egypt, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Kenya, living fossils, mammals, Miocene, paleontology, placental mammals, Pleistocene, termites}

Fossil Friday: Miocene Aardvarks and the Abrupt Origin of Tubulidentata

_{Günter Bechly
December 23, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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So much about the congruence of anatomical and genetic similarity predicted by Darwin’s theory. Read More ›