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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, Ediacaran biota, flatworms, Fossil Friday (series), microbial mats, muscles, nervous system, Precambrian, protists, South Australia, trace fossils, Tribrachidium}

Fossil Friday: An Ediacaran Animal with a Question Mark

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November 8, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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To claim that such undefinable blobs in sandstone represent fossils of the oldest motile animals is massively overselling the evidence to say the least. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, convergent evolution, evolutionary icons, Fossil Friday (series), Gondwana, Great Britain, Jonathan Wells, mammals, reptiles, South America, University of Bristol}

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution

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November 1, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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This would have been very interesting news to my friend and colleague Jonathan Wells, who had described many such cases in his ground-breaking books. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 25, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Chengjiang biota, convergence, Early Cambrian, echinoderms, Michael Denton, Paleozoic}

Fossil Friday: An Extinct Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion

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October 25, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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One of the strongest arguments in favor of Darwinian evolution gets more and more dismantled, which totally vindicates the critique by Michael Denton. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animal phyla, asexual reproduction, Cambrian Explosion, Early Cambrian, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, microfossils, protists, single-celled organisms, sudden appearance, Sweden, transitional fossils}

Fossil Friday: Chitinozoa — Enigmatic Microfossils from the Paleozoic Era

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October 18, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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We may now add the mysterious Chitinozoa to this ever-growing list of products of the burst of biological creativity in the Early Cambrian. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 11, 2024

Categories
Genetics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, biodiversity, biologists, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Charnia, Ediacaran biota, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic information, intelligent design, interpretation, magical thinking, paleontologists, Precambrian, radiations, radiometric dating, Science Advances, University of Edinburgh}

Fossil Friday: The Avalon Explosion and the Power of Maybe

_{Günter Bechly
October 11, 2024

Genetics, Paleontology

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While evolutionary biology has no explanation even according to the authors themselves, intelligent design theory does. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 4, 2024

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, apes, Australopithecines, Down syndrome, evolutionists, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Homo floresiensis, Homo habilis, Indonesia, modern humans, morphology, paleontology}

Fossil Friday: Hobbits Thwart Darwinian Predictions Again

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October 4, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Evolutionists reliably tend to follow one foundational principle: “What must not be, cannot be!” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 27, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Darwinism, England, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, neo-Darwinian evolution, paleontology, pseudoscience, Triassic period}

Fossil Friday: When Paleontologists Let Turtles Fly

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September 27, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Do such misidentifications and interpretational problems show that Darwinism is false and intelligent design is true? Of course not. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 20, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Gabon, Metazoa, morphology, Natural History Museum, nutrients, 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, paleontology, University of Southampton}

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

_{Günter Bechly
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
, arachnids, compound eyes, convergence, Darwin critics, empirical evidence, 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 ›