Tag: bilaterians

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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

7}

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
, 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

14}

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

6}

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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Date
February 25, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adobe Acrobat, analogy, Animal Operating System, animals, bilaterians, biology departments, body plans, Charles Darwin, Ernst Mayr, European Molecular Biology Organization, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, gene regulatory networks, George Gaylord Simpson, graves, mutations, natural selection, operating systems, Ronald Fisher, smartphones, The EMBO Journal, Theodosius Dobzhansky, zombies}

Another Hypothesis for the Origin of Animals

_{Science & Culture
February 25, 2026

Evolution, Scientific Reasoning

2}

This one uses an analogy to the origin of smartphones. No kidding. Yet, it’s an interesting article. Just not really evolutionary theory in any normal sense. Read More ›

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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, molecular clock studies, Nevada, Ohio, paleontology, South China, tentacles}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

_{Günter Bechly
November 24, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

10}

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, intelligent design, jellyfish, locomotion, muscles, nervous system, paleontologists, Science Advances, Stephen Meyer}

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

_{David Coppedge
June 22, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

7}

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, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Illinois, missing links, mollusk, Nature (journal), vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: The Stubborn Mystery of the Tully Monster

_{Günter Bechly
May 5, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

4}

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, Dave Farina, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran, embryos, fossils, Kimberella, Mongolia, Namacalathus, Professor Dave, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Meyer, Trilobozoa}

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, embryos, Eumetazoa, evolution, fossils, Gregory Retallack, homology, Ikaria, intelligent design, Internet, Kimberella, Metazoa, microfossils, Namacalathus, New York Times, Professor Dave, sponges, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, straw man, Tribrachidium, Vernanimalcula, YouTubers}

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

_{Günter Bechly
December 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

22}

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 ›