Tag: bilaterians

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Bryozoa, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, chordates, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, green algae, invertebrates, Lower Cambrian, metazoans, microCT, molecular clock studies, moss animals, Nevada, Ohio, paleontology, South China, tentacles}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

_{Günter Bechly
November 24, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 22, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, carbon, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Ctenophora, ctenophores, Darwin's Doubt, entoprocts, intelligent design, jellyfish, locomotion, muscles, nervous system, paleontologists, phoronids, scalidophorans, Science Advances, Stephen Meyer}

Earliest Comb Jellies Wore Armor — “Remarkable,” Say Researchers

_{David Coppedge
June 22, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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It would be surprising, under an evolutionary view, to find such a complex system in the earliest animal fossils. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, Carboniferous Period, cephalopods, Darwinian evolution, deuterostome, fin rays, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Illinois, lampreys, Mazon Creek, missing links, mollusk, Nature (journal), vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: The Stubborn Mystery of the Tully Monster

_{Günter Bechly
May 5, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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How much confidence should we really place in dubious fossil evidence when it is boldly claimed to prove Darwinian evolution as a fact? Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cloudina, Conotubus, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran, embryos, Fortunian, fossils, Kimberella, Mongolia, Namacalathus, Namapoikia, Permian, Precambrian animals, Professor Dave, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Trilobozoa, wormworld}

Let’s Help “Professor Dave” Understand the Precambrian

_{Günter Bechly
December 2, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

12}

We have much to teach the non-professor, and I trust that he is grateful for the education being rendered to him here. Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Carl Zimmer, China, Cloudina, cnidarians, Darwin's Doubt, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Doushantuo fossils, embryos, Eumetazoa, evolution, fossils, Gregory Retallack, homology, Ikaria, intelligent design, Internet, Kimberella, Metazoa, microfossils, Namacalathus, New York Times, Precambrian animals, Professor Dave, Spiralicellula, sponges, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, straw man, Tribrachidium, Vernanimalcula, White Sea assemblage, Yilingia, YouTubers}

“Lying on the Internet”? Debunking Dave Farina on Stephen Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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A lot of nonsense gets published in peer-reviewed journals and it needs expertise to separate the wheat from the chaff. Farina lacks any expertise to do this. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 13, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bilaterians, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Charles Marshall, citrate, Current Biology, David Klinghoffer, Debating Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, evolution, gene regulatory networks, Graham Budd, intelligent design, James Valentine, Maximilian Telford, phenotypes, Precambrian, Richard Lenski, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, Uppsala University, Vernanimalcula}

On Cambrian Explosion, Biology Journal’s Special Issue Betrays Cause for Darwin Doubts

_{David Coppedge
July 13, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The strength of a theory can be gauged by how well it stands up to attacks and how well it incorporates new evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 21, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, bilateral symmetry, bilaterians, body plans, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, eLife, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, fossil record, genes, genetic information, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Nature Communications, oxygenation, paleontology, Precambrian, Stephen Meyer}

Scientific Paper Reaffirms New Genes Required for Cambrian Explosion

_{Casey Luskin
October 21, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

4}

The notion that many genes would be required for the Cambrian explosion may seem unsurprising — what is surprising is that anyone would challenge the idea. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 24, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animal phyla, Bilateria, bilaterians, biology teachers, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, creativity, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Ediacaran Period, Günter Bechly, inventiveness, Kimberella, mollusk, precambrian fossils, professors, saltation, Stephen Meyer, students, Yilingia}

Bechly Series: No Ancestors for Cambrian Animals; Darwin’s Doubt Remains

_{David Klinghoffer
September 24, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

I urge you to review this important series. Humbly place it at the feet of your favorite Darwinist, atheist, or theistic evolutionist. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, bilaterians, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang, Ediacaran Period, feeding traces, fossil record, Kimberella, Kimberella series, limpets, Maotianshan Shales, motility, Precambrian strata, taphonomy, trace fossils}

Kimberella — Conflicting Evidence from Taphonomy

_{Günter Bechly
September 7, 2020

Evolution, Paleontology

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The fossilization of Kimberella specimens was most likely based on rapid burial with sand during storm events. Read More ›

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Date
October 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, animals, arthropod, BBC News, bilaterians, burrowing, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, chordate, Darwin's Doubt, earthworms, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Kimberella, lophotrochozoans, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Stephen Meyer, trilobite, University of Edinburgh, Yilingia spiciformis}

Worming Evolution into the Cambrian Explosion

_{Evolution News
October 7, 2019

Evolution

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A new fossil worm from the closing days of the Ediacaran is being celebrated as a missing link that demonstrates a gradual Cambrian diversification, not an explosion. Read More ›