Category: Paleontology | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
May 17, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, algae, ambulacrarian, bilaterians, Brazil, burrows, Cambrian Explosion, ctenophore, Ediacaran biota, fossil record, fossils, Gondwana Research, Günter Bechly, GUT, Joseph Botting, macrofossils, Margaretia, microfossils, National Museum Wales, paleontologists, paleontology, perforations, precambrian fossils, preservation, Science (journal), Science Daily, symmetry, Tamengo Formation, worms}

More Challenges to Ediacaran Animal Fossils

_{Casey Luskin
May 17, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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Joseph Botting is actually very skeptical of the paper’s purported example of an Ediacaran ctenophore, and he believes it is in fact a cnidarian. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 23, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ambulacrarians, bilaterian animals, bilaterians, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, China, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Darwin’s Doubt, Douglas Erwin, Ediacaran Period, evolutionary mechanisms, fossil record, genes, genetic information, Günter Bechly, Hemichordata, homoplasy, paleontology, phyla, Porifera, precambrian fossils, Science (journal), Scientific American, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation}

The Prescient Günter Bechly: New Paper Doesn’t Negate the Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
April 23, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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Let’s consider the fossils the paper identifies as appearing in the Ediacaran but that belong to phyla previously known to appear first in the Cambrian. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 20, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, air bladder, animals, beach, beachcombing, bilaterian animals, brown algae, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, convergent evolution, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran fossils, evolutionary theory, fauna, flora, fossil-hunting, fossils, hemichordate worms, holdfast, kelp, kelp stipe, Kingdom Protista, Margaretia dorus, Pacific Northwest, paleontology, plants, Precambrian strata, protists, rock hammer, Science (journal), tide-pooling, Western Washington}

Beach Stroll Casts Further Doubt on Some Supposed Ediacaran Bilaterian Fossils

_{Casey Luskin
April 20, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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In one instance I found a kelp on the beach with its holdfast still nicely attached. A photo of it is at the top. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 20, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, ambulacrarians, ancestors, bilaterians, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cambroernids, Charnia, China, chordates, cladogram, cnidarians, crinoid, ctenophores, Current Biology, Ediacaran strata, fossils, Haootia, holdfast, Jiangchuan Biota, kelp, mackenziid, Margaretia dorus, Precambrian, Profera, Science (journal), Scientific American, The Conversation, vermiform, worms}

Science Paper Overstates Case for “Diverse Assemblage of Bilaterians” in the Ediacaran

_{Casey Luskin
April 20, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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I suspect the bilaterian nature of this “most numerous” fossil will be challenged as more studies come out. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animal phyla, bilaterians, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Chengjiang biota, China, Disney, Ediacaran creatures, Ediacaran fauna, Ediacaran Period, evolutionists, fossil record, fungi, Günter Bechly, Ikaria, Kimberella, lichens, Luskin’s First Law, paleobiologists, phyla, retroactive confession of ignorance, Science (journal), Scientific American, seafloor, Stephen Meyer, The Conversation, Uncus, Yilingia, Yunnan Province}

Retroactive Confessions Permeate Around Science Paper on Ediacaran “Bilaterians”

_{Casey Luskin
April 16, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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What you just read is an amusing example of what some of my friends affectionally call “Luskin’s First Law.” It goes like this. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 25, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Science Reporting
Tagged
, bipedalism, Casey Luskin, Come Let Us Reason Together, deception, error, evolutionary narrative, evolutionary scientists, fossil, fossil record, human ancestors, human origins, Lenny Esposito, media, paleoanthropology, researcher-to-specimen imbalance, researchers, Sahelanthropus tchadensis}

Luskin on Error Versus Deception in Human Origins Discussions

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 25, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology, Science Reporting

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How do you separate the facts from the narrative? That can be challenging these days, and the realm of science is no exception. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 24, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, bias, Casey Luskin, competition, dissent, evolutionary narratives, evolutionary scientists, femur, fossil record, fossils, funding, graduate students, human ancestors, human origins, ID the Future, language, Lenny Esposito, paleoanthropology, paleontology, political pressure, Politics, prestige, Sahelanthropus tchadensis}

Supposed Human Ancestor Falls Victim to Research Politics

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 24, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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Casey Luskin describes a culture of silence in paleoanthropology driven by competition, prestige, and political pressure. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Zoology
Tagged
, common descent, common design, environmental shifts, evolutionary lineage, evolutionary sequence, fossil record, geneticists, geological evidence, giraffe evolution, giraffe’s neck, giraffes, ID the Future, intermediates, Neo-Darwinism, Samotherium major, silos, stasis, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Giraffes and the Fossil Record: Bad News for Neo-Darwinism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 26, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology, Zoology

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Dr. Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig highlights the discrepancies in the fossil record that cause the traditional Darwinian narrative to unravel. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 24, 2026

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, archaeology, China, Chris Stringer, Denisovans, evolution, evolutionary narrative, evolutionary timeline, Günter Bechly, hominins, Homo erectus, Homo longi, Homo sapiens, human evolution, London, media, morphological data, morphology, Natural History Museum, paleoanthropologists, paleontology, revision, Rick Potts, Science (journal), Science Advances, skulls, Susan Antón, Xiaobo Feng, Yunxian 2, Yunxian skulls}

Like It Never Happened: Yunxian Skulls Reassigned Based on Evolution, Not Data

_{Casey Luskin
February 24, 2026

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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As Günter Bechly used to wryly observe, human evolution is a subject that is constantly being “rewritten,” often accompanied by much media fanfare. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, body plans, British Columbia, Burgess Shale, Burgess Shale Type, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Chengjiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chordates, cnidarians, comb jellies, complex body plans, ctenophores, Darwin's Doubt, fossils, gills, guts, Han Zeng, Huayuan, Huayuan County, Huayuan site, James Woodford, jellyfish, Lagerstätte, lobopodians, magical thinking, Marble Canyon, molluscs, mutation/selection mechanism, Nature (journal), nerves, New Scientist, oxygen molecules, oxygen theory, poriferans, priapulids, Sinsk Event, soft tissues, transitional forms, worms}

Get to Know the Name: Huayuan Is a Major New Cambrian Fossil Site Found in China

_{David Coppedge
February 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Another Cambrian fossil site that rivals the original Burgess Shale has been announced to the world. Read More ›