Tag: amber

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, academia, adults, amber, antennae, astrology, Basilosaurus, beetles, Collembola, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), Indohyus, K/Pg impact event, larvae, living fossils, Myanmar, Neo-Darwinism, Pakicetus, psychoanalysis, unguided evolution, Wired}

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

_{Günter Bechly
November 29, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Brazil, Burmese amber, Crato Formation, Darwinian evolution, dependency graph model, dragonflies, empirical data, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, insects, intelligent design, larvae, Natural History Museum, paleoentomology, Pegasus, phylogenetic systematics, phylogenetics, Stuttgart, stylets, Tübingen University, Willi Hennig, Winston Ewert}

Fossil Friday: Cretaceous Insect Chimera Illustrates a Design Principle

_{Günter Bechly
December 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Why does this fossil insect specimen have implications for intelligent design? The reason lies in the striking convergences it exhibits. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Arachnida, arachnids, arthropods, Charles Darwin, chelicerates, common descent, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, dependency graph model, England, eurypterids, evolution, Evolution News, flagellum, Fossil Friday (series), Germany, horseshoe crabs, intelligent design, materialism, molecular clock studies, Parioscorpio venator, parsimony, phylogeny, predictions, respiratory organs, Richard Dawkins, scorpions, spider silk, spiders, spinnerets, tiktaalik, Tree of Life, whip scorpions, Winston Ewert, Wisconsin}

Fossil Friday: The Mess of Arachnid Phylogeny, and Why I’ve Become More Skeptical of Common Descent

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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True skeptics should question everything, and not just everything apart from Darwinism and materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 10, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Carboniferous Period, caterpillar, crustaceans, Darwinism, Dollo’s Law, evo-devo, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Holometabola, holometabolan insects, homology, hybridization, Illustra Media, insects, intelligent design, irreversibility, Lepidoptera, Maria Sybilla Merian, Metamorphosis, paleontology, prolegs, tree resin, Trichoptera}

Fossil Friday: How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs, or Not

_{Günter Bechly
November 10, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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In spite of all the scientific efforts by Darwinists, the origin of complete metamorphosis in holometabolan insects remains an unsolved mystery. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 26, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, amniotes, biological novelty, birds, Encyclopedia Britannica, evolution, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Francis Collins, Germany, homology, intelligent design, Karl Giberson, keratin, ontogeny, paleontology, scales, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, The Language of Science and Faith, theropod, theropod dinosaurs}

Fossil Friday: A Dinosaur Feather and an Overhyped New Study on the Origin of Feathers

_{Günter Bechly
May 26, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Feathers, which are the most complex integumental structures known in the animal kingdom, without doubt required coordinated changes in numerous genes. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Baltic amber, cladistics, Dominican Republic, Eastern Europe, Fossil Friday (series), London, Mexico, Natural History Museum, Piltdown fly, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, tree resin, Willi Hennig}

Fossil Friday: Fake Amber and the Piltdown Fly

_{Günter Bechly
November 25, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Such simple forgeries are commonly sold to tourists in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Eastern Europe, and Eastern Asia. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, antennae, Baltic amber, Darwinism, Eocene Epoch, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, nested hierarchy, phylogenetics, scales, thorax}

Fossil Friday: New Kind of Silverfish Trapped in Sticky Resin

_{Günter Bechly
June 24, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy. Read More ›

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Date
November 1, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, amber, arsenic, Caenorhabditis elegans, California, Current Biology, Darwinists, Dominican Republic, evolution, extremophiles, intelligent design, Live Science, Marcos Eberlin, Mono Lake, nematode, Oregon State University, pharmaceuticals, proteins, roundworm, tardigrades, UC San Diego}

Evolutionary Enigmas, Tiny Tardigrades Strut Their Superpowers

_{Science and Culture
November 1, 2019

Evolution

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Darwinists struggle to explain why any creature would evolve protections from environmental conditions it had never experienced. Read More ›

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Date
July 9, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amber, Brazil, cockroach, Crato Formation, Cretaceous, Gondwana, Günter Bechly, holotype, Myanmar, paleontology}

This Critter Is Named for Günter Bechly

_{Science and Culture
July 9, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The photo above is another species of the same genus that Dr. Bechly established in 2007. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 11, 2018

Categories
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, amber, CNN, extraterrestrial life, fly, Great American Novel, life, meteorites, News, Open University, science, Science Advances, solar system}

From CNN, Vapid Science News Headline of the Day: “Ingredients for Life Found” in Space Rocks

_{David Klinghoffer
January 11, 2018

Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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“Not exactly proof” of extraterrestrial life, they say? It’s not a “proof” at all. Read More ›