Tag: Anomalocaris

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 25, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, Associated Press, Barbara Wagstaff, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian Period, Charnia, Cornelius Hunter, Current Biology, Devonian Period, Flinders University, Fractofusus, Günter Bechly, Joe Moysiuk, John Long, Journal of the Geological Society, Justin Jackson, Live Science, mammoth, Marcin Ambrozik, Modura, Nature Communications, New Scientist, Per Ahlberg, radiodont, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Society Open Science, Saint James, The Conversation, tiktaalik, true cross, University of Melbourne, Vera Korasidis}

Fossils as Magical Darwin Relics

_{David Coppedge
May 25, 2025

Archaeology, Evolution, Paleontology

12}

Fossils can be handled in the present, but how they are used by evolutionists in stories of history resembles the practices of overeager medieval churchmen. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Fossil Friday (series), Hallucigenia, holotype, lancelets, Pikaia, Royal Ontario Museum, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

_{Günter Bechly
July 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

7}

Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 9, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, BBC News, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, centipedes, China, common ancestry, Current Biology, cuticle, Darwin's Doubt, euarthropods, Hallucigenia, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Jean-Bernard Caron, Live Science, Middle Cambrian, Morocco, Nature (journal), nervous system, New Scientist, Precambrian strata, Science (journal), software, spiders, Stephen Meyer, University of Cambridge, velvet worms}

In Resolving Darwin’s Doubt, These Cambrian Fossils Are No Help

_{David Coppedge
August 9, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

8}

This is hierarchical organization, none of which is seen in the Precambrian layers beneath. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Biology
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, animal phyla, Anomalocaris, body plans, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous Period, cephalopods, chordates, Emu Bay Shale, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lophotrochozoa, Macquarie University, molluscs, new york, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, squid, stem group}

Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid

_{Günter Bechly
September 2, 2022

Biology, Paleontology, Science

11}

Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 31, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, bioRxiv, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, carbon, Casey Luskin, cilia, comb jellies, ctenophores, Current Biology, evolution, irreducibly complex systems, Michael Marshall, New Scientist, oxygen, Phanerozoic Eon, predators, Science Advances, slime, sponges, Stephen Meyer}

Cambrian Explosion: More Woes and Dodges

_{David Coppedge
March 31, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

7}

Evolutionists are still failing to explain the Cambrian explosion. They struggle to explain new complexities or else try to change the subject. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, Anomalocaris, behaviors, brains, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, cell types, Charles Darwin, Charnia, China, Darwin's Doubt, Dickinsonia, Ediacarans, evolution, Fossil Hall, fossil record, Hallucigenia, mollusks, National Museum of Natural History, Opabinia, organs, oxygen, Pikaia, Smithsonian Institution, Spriggina, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Woodward, Tribrachidium, trilobites, Wiwaxia}

Smithsonian Glosses Over the Cambrian Explosion

_{David Coppedge
November 19, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

8}

The nation’s museum cannot ignore the collection of fossils Walcott sent them from the Burgess Shale. But can they explain them away? Read More ›

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Date
September 22, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abdomen, Anomalocaris, aphids, arthropods, beetles, Berlin, bioengineering, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, chelicerates, crickets, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, evolution, flies, gnats, honeybees, intelligent design, Marrella, MIT, PNAS, spider silk, spiders, Stephen Meyer, thorax, trilobites}

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

_{Science and Culture
September 22, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

They appear in the early Cambrian fossil record: the first examples of the most diverse phylum on earth. Who knew their skills would become the envy of human engineers? Read More ›

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Date
December 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, Anomalocaris, artifact hypothesis, biofilms, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, China, conservation, Croatia, Darwinism, Ediacaran Period, Ernst Haeckel, fossil record, Greenland, Live Science, microfossils, Molecular Biology and Evolution, mouse, multicellular organisms, Opabinia, precambrian fossils, Science (journal), Sebastian Willman, Stephen Meyer, The Scientist, Uppsala University, zebrafish}

First Animals? Fossils Won’t Fit Cambrian Evolution

_{Science and Culture
December 15, 2020

Evolution

7}

Evolutionists are still fighting over the first animals. Each new fossil creates new questions, but there is one constant: bluffing that Darwinism is true. Read More ›

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Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, annelids, Anomalocaris, arthropods, bristle worm, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, Cryogenian Period, Darwinism, Darwinists, earthworms, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Kimberella, microbes, Namapoikia rietoogensis, paleontologists, Porifera, precambrian fossils, sponges, stromatolites}

A Bridge Too Far? In Search of Precambrian Sponges

_{Science and Culture
September 22, 2020

Evolution

9}

The most celebrated Precambrian sponge may not be a sponge at all. Watch Darwinians try to coax it into spongehood. Read More ›

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Date
July 15, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, Anomalocaris, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cambrian radiation, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacarans, evolution, fossil record, intelligent design, Lagerstätte, microbes, mollusks, Nature Communications, Nature Geoscience, oxygen, Stephen Meyer, Tim Lenton, University of Exeter, Wiwaxia}

Should There Be a Time Limit for Cambrian Explosion Excuses?

_{Science and Culture
July 15, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Evolutionary scientists have had 160 years to figure out this dilemma. Read More ›