Tag: Anomalocaris

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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

9}

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

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 25, 2025

Categories
Archaeology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, Associated Press, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian Period, Charnia, Cornelius Hunter, Current Biology, Devonian Period, Flinders University, Günter Bechly, Joe Moysiuk, Live Science, Nature Communications, New Scientist, Per Ahlberg, radiodont, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Society Open Science, The Conversation, tiktaalik, University of Melbourne}

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, 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, China, common ancestry, Current Biology, Darwin's Doubt, Hallucigenia, Live Science, Morocco, Nature (journal), nervous system, New Scientist, Precambrian strata, Science (journal), software, spiders, Stephen Meyer, University of Cambridge}

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, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lophotrochozoa, Macquarie University, 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, predators, Science Advances, 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, evolution, fossil record, Hallucigenia, mollusks, National Museum of Natural History, organs, oxygen, 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
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, beetles, Berlin, bioengineering, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, crickets, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwin's Doubt, engineers, evolution, flies, honeybees, intelligent design, MIT, PNAS, spider silk, spiders, Stephen Meyer, trilobites}

Arthropod Architects Amaze Engineers

_{Science & 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, 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, precambrian fossils, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, The Scientist, Uppsala University, zebrafish}

First Animals? Fossils Won’t Fit Cambrian Evolution

_{Science & 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, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang fossils, Darwinism, Darwinists, earthworms, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Kimberella, microbes, paleontologists, Porifera, precambrian fossils, sponges}

A Bridge Too Far? In Search of Precambrian Sponges

_{Science & 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 ›