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Photo: Mesuropetala schaeferi, by Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Dragonfly from the Upper Jurassic

Almost everything in the wonderful construction of dragonflies cries out for a design explanation. Read More ›
Centrosaurus
Photo: Skull of Centrosaurus, by Sainterx, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Could We Ever Recover Dinosaur DNA?

There have been a number of unexpected finds from dinosaurs besides bones; some paleontologists dig hopefully. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Turtles All the Way Down

Contrary to the gradualistic expectations of Darwin’s theory, the distinct body plan of turtles appeared abruptly in the Late Triassic. Read More ›
Moor frog
Photo: A Moor frog, via Wikimedia Commons.

Species Pairs: A New Challenge to Evolutionary Theory

Far from being exceptions to the rule, species pairs, which have diverged very little over millions of years, are the rule. Read More ›
silverfish
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: New Kind of Silverfish Trapped in Sticky Resin

These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy. Read More ›
LIDAR scan
Image: A LIDAR scan, © Heiko Prümers / DAI.

Detected: Intelligent Designs in the Amazon Jungle

With LIDAR technology, the angle of incidence of a signal can reveal designs hiding in plain sight. Read More ›
coelacanth
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: A Dead “Living Fossil”

Coelacanths are considered to be "living fossils," which do not sit well with Darwinian assumptions. Read More ›
Cambrian animal
Image: A scene from The Information Enigma, via Discovery Institute.

Molecular Clocks Can’t Save Darwinists from the Cambrian Dilemma

To explain away the Cambrian explosion has been and remains a high priority for Darwinists. Read More ›
Whip Spider
Photo: Whip spider, by Günter Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Whip Spider from the Lower Cretaceous

These fossiliferous limestones are about 115 million years old. In spite of this age the animal is not primitive in any way. Read More ›
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Image: Artist's depiction of <I>Rhamphorhynchus muensteri</I>, by Oleg Kuznetsov — 3depix — http://3depix.com/ 3D Epix Inc., CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin 

Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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