Tag: Crato Formation

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 8, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, amber, Brazil, Burmese amber, Crato Formation, Darwinian evolution, dependency graph model, dragonflies, empirical data, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, insects, intelligent design, larvae, Natural History Museum, paleoentomology, Pegasus, phylogenetic systematics, phylogenetics, Stuttgart, stylets, Tübingen University, Willi Hennig, Winston Ewert}

Fossil Friday: Cretaceous Insect Chimera Illustrates a Design Principle

_{Günter Bechly
December 8, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Why does this fossil insect specimen have implications for intelligent design? The reason lies in the striking convergences it exhibits. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 27, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, angiosperms, Charles Darwin, Crato Formation, Darwinism, Evolution News, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, Lower Cretaceous, Nature Plants, Philip Donoghue, Queen Mary University of London, Richard Buggs, sudden appearance, Twitter, water lily}

Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms Discontinuities in the History of Plants

_{Günter Bechly
October 27, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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I have elaborated on the sudden appearance of flowering plants in the Lower Cretaceous, which was called an “abominable mystery” by Charles Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 11, 2022

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Biomimetics, Brazil, Crato Formation, evolution, forewings, Fossil Friday (series), holotype, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, origami, Permian period, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Complex Wing Folding of Earwigs

_{Günter Bechly
November 11, 2022

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This highly complex mode of wing folding is one of the many examples of engineering marvels in insects that strongly suggest intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 28, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Crato Formation, fish, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, holotype, Late Triassic, Lower Cretaceous, Preondactylus, pterosaur, Scleromochlus, Upper Triassic}

Fossil Friday: Ludodactylus and the Origin of Pterosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
October 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Outside of Darwinian fantasy land, we lack any transitional fossils to document an assumed gradual evolutionary development of characteristic pterosaur wings. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 12, 2022

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, beetles, Brazil, butterflies, convergence, Crato Formation, Darwinism, design pattern, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, insects, intelligent design, Kalligrammatidae, lacewing, Lower Cretaceous, Lower Jurassic, mouthparts, natural selection, paleontology, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, University of Tübingen}

Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike

_{Günter Bechly
August 12, 2022

Paleontology, Science

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An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 22, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, Charles Darwin, Crato Formation, Cretaceous, Darwinian evolution, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, insects, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, Natural History Museum, paleontologists, phylogenetics, Stuttgart, Willi Hennig}

Fossil Friday: Unknown Cicada from the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
July 22, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Only the infusion of new information from outside the system can explain these bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, Cambrian Explosion, Crato Formation, crocodiles, Crurotarsi, Darwin critics, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), holotype, ichthyosaur, intelligent design, lizards, Lower Cretaceous, Mammaliaformes, mammals, Nature Communications, Peter Ward, pterosaurs, turtles, Upper Triassic}

Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 17, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, Crato Formation, Cretaceous Period, Darwinian theory, fish, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, ID the Future, living fossils, Lower Cretaceous, mutations, natural selection, podcast}

Fossil Friday: A Dead “Living Fossil”

_{Günter Bechly
June 17, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Coelacanths are considered to be "living fossils," which do not sit well with Darwinian assumptions. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Araneae, Brazil, Crato Formation, Darwinists, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, limestone, Lower Cretaceous, morphology, phylogenetic position, spiders, whip scorpions}

Fossil Friday: Whip Spider from the Lower Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
June 10, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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These fossiliferous limestones are about 115 million years old. In spite of this age the animal is not primitive in any way. Read More ›

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Date
July 9, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amber, Brazil, cockroach, Crato Formation, Cretaceous, Gondwana, Günter Bechly, holotype, Myanmar, paleontology}

This Critter Is Named for Günter Bechly

_{Science and Culture
July 9, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The photo above is another species of the same genus that Dr. Bechly established in 2007. Read More ›