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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, bilaterians, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran Period, feeding traces, fossil record, Kimberella, Kimberella series, limpets, 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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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 6, 2020

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, ecosystem, Ediacaran biota, feeding traces, fossil record, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series}

Conflicting Views about Kimberella’s Ecology

_{Günter Bechly
September 6, 2020

Ecology, Evolution

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Based on the same fossil evidence, there is obviously much room for speculation and quite different opinions. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 4, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, holotype, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Mark McMenamin, mollusks, Precambrian strata, Tribrachidium, White Sea}

Kimberella — A Checkered History

_{Günter Bechly
September 4, 2020

Evolution

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John Kimber collected the first fossils of this organism and died tragically at age 38 during an expedition in South Australia in 1964. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animal phyla, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Eumetazoa, evidence, evolution, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, Metazoa, molecular clock, mollusks}

Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk?

_{Günter Bechly
September 3, 2020

Evolution

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If identified as an animal, it would “predate the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian animal phyla as a kind of ‘advance guard.’” Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, arthropods, bioRxiv, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian fossils, Cambrian News, Canada, carbon, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran fossils, evolution, fossil record, geochemistry, oxygen, PNAS, Stephen Meyer}

In Carbon Isotope Excursions, Darwinists Lose Another Excuse for the Cambrian Explosion

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July 23, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The claim that a spike in carbon isotope concentrations led to the explosion of biological diversity in the Cambrian doesn’t hold up, as if it would have helped, anyway. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 9, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cloudina, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran animals, Ediacaran era, fossil record, lophotrochozoans, Nama Group, Namacalathus, Namibia, National Geographic, paleontology, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, University of Edinburgh, University of Toronto}

Namacalathus, an Ediacaran Lophophorate Animal?

_{Günter Bechly
July 9, 2020

Evolution

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I have been writing a series of articles on alleged Ediacaran animals that have been postulated as precursors of the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 19, 2020

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Amazon, Big Bang, Big Tech, BioEssays, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, censorship, Charles Darwin, Christianity, computer engineering, Dave Speijer, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Anderson, Ernst Haeckel, Evolution News, Facebook, free speech, Google, homeschooling, intellignet design, Kindle, Marcos Eberlin, Paul Chien, Robert Alston, Robert Waltzer, students}

Here’s How to Fight Censorship — In a “Nutshell”

_{David Klinghoffer
May 19, 2020

Biology, Chemistry, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Scientific Freedom

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The five authors, led by Thomas Y. Lo, cover the range of evidence for intelligent design in under 150 pages. Read More ›

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Date
May 6, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, biological information, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cassini mission, Christianity, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, creation myth, Enceladus, evolution, Gregor Mendel, history, hydrothermal vents, Jay Richards, Michael Keas, Miller-Urey experiment, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Saturn, Unbelievable}

From Cosmos: Possible Worlds — “Most Plausible” Creation Myths

_{Science & Culture
May 6, 2020

Faith & Science, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Dr. Tyson’s imagination wanders from Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, to the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 26, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, annelids, arthropods, bilaterian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, cnidarians, Ediacaran animals, Germany, microbial mats, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, South Australia, UC Riverside, University of California, Yilingia spiciformis}

Ancestor of All Animals in 555-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Sediments?

_{Günter Bechly
March 26, 2020

Evolution

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Ikaria wariootia is just another problematic Ediacaran fossil that could be anything from inorganic artifact to protozoan to cnidarian and yes, maybe a bilaterian worm. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, bilaterian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Chengjiang biota, China, Cloudina, cnidarian, Darwinian evolution, Dickinsonia, digestive tract, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Germany, GUT, Nature Communications, Nevada, skeleton, University of Missouri}

Did Cloudinids Have the Guts to Be Worms?

_{Günter Bechly
January 17, 2020

Evolution

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I promised last year to follow up on more alleged Ediacaran animals. Now is a good moment to come back to this, with a new study having just been published in the journal Nature Communications. Read More ›