Category: Zoology

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
November 6, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, An Evening at the Met, beaver, bill, Charles Darwin, chickens, chromosomes, cloaca, dolphins, eggs, electroreceptors, intelligent design, interclavicle, Irreducible Complexity, mammal, materialism, Michael Behe, milk, naturalism, nipples, ovaries, rectum, reptiles, riverbeds, Robin Williams, shoulder girdles, shrimp, spur, ultraviolet light, worms}

Doctor’s Diary: The Platypus as a Patchwork Icon of Intelligent Design

_{Geoffrey Simmons
November 6, 2026

Intelligent Design, Zoology

5}

Maybe the platypus was deliberately designed to show doubters that that designer can do “whatever I want, whenever I want, and however I want.” Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 5, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, behavior, brain, Darwinian evolution, decision-making, Drosophila, engineering, eye movements, flies, fruit flies, housefly, humans, information sampling, insect brains, intelligent agent., intelligent design, microsaccades, Mikko Juusola, motion blur, Musca domestica, neural morphodynamics, saccadic movements, sensing, stereovision, University of Sheffield, vision, visual fixation}

High-Speed Insect Brain Provides Evidence of Engineering Design

_{Eric Cassell
November 5, 2026

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

5}

An important element that enables the enhanced processing involves microsaccades. In humans, these are small involuntary eye movements. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
November 5, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Anton Chekhov, Arctic Ocean, bacterial flagellum, beauty, Big Bang, Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, cosmology, DNA, double helix, human experience, intelligent design, iPhone, mathematical equations, mathematical theorems, mystery, oak tree, Pacific Ocean, paintings, redwoods, Satan, Scripture, self-denial, stars, The Story of Everything, transformation, universe, wonder}

Knowledge Isn’t Opposed to Mystery; It’s a Path to Wonder

_{Peter Biles
November 5, 2026

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Zoology

5}

Learning about how a seahorse works might be one of the most spiritual things I can do. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 24, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Ethics
Zoology
Tagged
, animals, artificial inteligence, biologgers, Bloomberg, buzzards, cave paintings, chimpanzees, Coller Dolittle Challenge, communication, CUNY, Daniela Canestrari, Earth Species Project, ethics, fungi, Kristin Andrews, Marriah Alcantara, mind, New York Post, plants, privacy rights, Ronny Reyes, Spain, Topoi, University of Leon, WEIRD, whales}

Next Big Thing Is… Privacy Rights for Animals?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 24, 2026

Computational Sciences, Ethics, Zoology

5}

If we came across chimpanzee cave paintings, we would, of course, reconsider. But the thing is, we don’t. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 22, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, amplitude, animals, Arctic terns, barometric pressure, bats, birds, Brown University, convergent evolution, Current Biology, engineering, flapping, Flight, Flight (documentary), geese, geolocator, Illustra Media, Kenneth S. Breur, light, nocturnal migration, Olivia Pomerenck, PNAS, powered flight, predators, starlings, stars, turbulence, V formation}

Birds on the Move: Awe at the Wonders Overhead

_{David Coppedge
September 22, 2026

Intelligent Design, Zoology

4}

Migrating birds like geese and ibises often fly in a V formation. It’s a memorable sight for birdwatchers looking up into the sky. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
August 28, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Technology
Zoology
Tagged
, beauty, Darwinists, Fire-Maker, geneticists, Giraffe, gratuitous beauty, Guillermo Gonzalez, intelligence, intelligent beings, Jay Richards, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, nature, problem of pain, scientific discovery, survival of the fittest, technology, The American Spectator, The Edge of Evolution, The Story of Everything, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Our Lush World: Considering the Problem of Beauty

_{Granville Sewell
August 28, 2026

Intelligent Design, Technology, Zoology

4}

“If, on the other hand, one views nature as ingenious artwork that cannot be reduced to the question of utility alone, these problems disappear.” Read More ›

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Date
August 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, Chordata, chordates, common ancestor, evolution, genomes, hominid, Homo sapiens, inference, Last Universal Common Ancestor, LUCA, mammals, Metazoa, Network of Life, ontology, organisms, Pan troglodytes, paragraphs, phylogenetic inference, phylogenetics, phylogeny, species, statistical noise, Systematic Biology, systematics, traits, Tree of Life}

Testing Phylogenetic Hypotheses: A Question for You

_{Science & Culture
August 12, 2026

Evolution, Zoology

2}

You can read this proposition a dozen times over and still be unable to say what it disallows in phylogenetic inference. Read More ›

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Author
Winston Ewert

Date
August 5, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Zoology
Tagged
, ancestral population, cecal valve, Christoph Adami, Darwinian processes, Darwinists, digestive process, environment, environmental triggers, epigenetic marker, epigenetics, evolution, genetic mutation, heads, information, information theory, intestine, islands, jaws, lizards, Podarcis melisellensis, Podarcis siculus, species, The Evolution of Biological Information}

Evolution of Biological Information: Lizards and a “New” Organ

_{Winston Ewert
August 5, 2026

Evolution, Zoology

3}

The first experiment that Christoph Adami discusses is one where scientists transported lizards from one island to another. Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, adults, Argentina, Ars Technica, Beneath The Waves, Carlyn Kranking, carnivores, Frontiers in Ethology, great white sharks, Gulf of California, Jennifer Ouellette, Jordan Strickler, juveniles, Kathryn Ayres, Masturus lanceolatus, Mexico, Nature (journal), New Zealand, oceans, orcas, Pacific Ocean, prey, rudders, salmon, sea lions, Smithsonian Magazine, stingrays, Strait of Gibraltar, sunfish, wolves, ZME Science}

When Orcas Play — With a Dead Sunfish

_{Science & Culture
July 23, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

3}

While the orcas’ sunfish-exploding behavior is remarkable, it is consistent, after all, with their reputation as the “wolves of the sea.” Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, asocial brain, body temperature, brain, cephalopods, cuttlefish, dog, dolphins, ectotherm, endotherms, habitat, intelligence, iScience, Jennifer Mather, Jess Cockerill, Lisa Hendry, mammals, mirror, Natural History Museum, neurology, neurons, neuroscience, octopus, ScienceAlert, shellfish, social brain, squid, University of Lethbridge, whales}

Hey Octopus, How Did You Get to Be So Smart?

_{Science & Culture
July 23, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

5}

With the asocial brain hypothesis, researchers ask us to think beyond traditional explanations for why some animals display unexpected intelligence. Read More ›