Tag: crocodiles

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alligators, birds, brains, cognition, crabs, crocodiles, evolution, fish, Gilles De Meester, intelligence, intelligent design, Irina Epstein, lobsters, mammals, manta ray, Matthew Wills, Max Planck Institute, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, octopus, reptiles, rodents, Simon Baeckens, snakes, tool-use}

Get Smart: Recognizing Reptile Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Mammals, birds, and reptiles all developed different smart survival strategies on their own. It sounds like convergent evolution or intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 20, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cats, chimpanzees, crocodiles, Dogs, humans, hunter, Knoxville, macaques, opossum, University of Tennessee}

Do Animals Really “Take Revenge”?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 20, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

The true tale of an Amur tiger hunting down and killing his hunter in 1997 is among the best attested of these stories. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
Tagged
, asteroid, baboons, chimpanzees, crocodiles, dinosaurs, intelligence, neurons, paleontologists, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Tyrannosaurus rex}

The Wildly Varying Intelligence of T. Rex

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 17, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology

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After centuries with the “stupid” label, the big, bad extinct dino was found in one 2023 study to be as smart as a primate. But then… Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
April 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, air, birds, blood, breath-holding, breathing, cardiovascular system, cold-bloodedness, crocodiles, Dallas, evolution, glycolysis, hard problems, heart, hematological system, hemoglobin, humans, intelligent design, Kate Winslet, lungs, oxygen, reptiles, respiratory system, Steve Laufmann, Tampa, tissues, trachea, ventricle, Wikipedia, Your Designed Body}

How Does the Crocodile Hold Its Breath So Long?

_{Howard Glicksman
April 24, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The actress Kate Winslet can hold her breath for seven and a quarter minutes. A crocodile, though, can hold his breath for hours. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
April 21, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amoeba, blood, breath-holding, breathing, cellular respiration, cold-bloodedness, complexity, connective tissue, crocodiles, Current Biology, Darwinism, engineers, evolution, gastrointestinal system, glucose, glycolysis, heart, hematological system, intelligent design, Kate Winslet, life, lungs, oxygen, physicians, red blood cells, respiratory system, Science Daily, Steve Laufmann, Wall Street Journal, warm-bloodedness, Your Designed Body}

In Breath-Holding, Kate Winslet and a Croc Are Champions

_{Howard Glicksman
April 21, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

11}

Kate Winslet, and other actors, for the sake of “the newest frontier in blockbuster moviemaking” are learning to hold their breath for several minutes. Read More ›

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Author
Melissa Cain Travis

Date
February 8, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, astronomers, Christianity, cosmos, creator, crocodiles, earth, elephants, faith, Galileo Galilei, heliocentrism, Herwart von Hohenburg, history, intelligent design, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Mysterium Cosmographicum, natural theology, Nicolaus Copernicus, prayer, Saturn, sun}

Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy

_{Melissa Cain Travis
February 8, 2023

Astronomy, Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences

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Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 17, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, alligators, anole lizard, asteroid, birds, crocodiles, dinosaurs, intelligence, lizards, mammals, NASA, octopuses, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, theropod, Tyrannosaurus rex, Vanderbilt University}

New Claim: Tyrannosaur Was as Smart as a Monkey

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 17, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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One researcher argues that, based on bird studies, the huge predators may have had many more brain cells than we have supposed. 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

4}

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
Casey Luskin

Date
January 19, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, BIO-Complexity, Brian Miller, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, common design, crocodiles, Current Biology, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, David Gelernter, dependency graph, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, Günter Bechly, hippos, intelligent design, Jeremy England, Jerry Coyne, John West, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Theoretical Biology, junk DNA, Michael Behe, paleomagnetism, polar bears, Richard Lenski, Royal Society, Science (journal), South Africa, State Museum for Natural History, Stuttgart, Summer Seminars, UC San Diego, University of Johannesburg, volcanic rocks, Winston Ewert}

I’m Excited to Return to Discovery Institute to Find Intelligent Design Stronger Than Ever!

_{Casey Luskin
January 19, 2021

Evolution, Geology, Intelligent Design, Science Education

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Over the past few years, I’ve seen ID critics advance some wild and amusing conspiracy theories about the reasons for my departure and absence. Read More ›

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Date
November 12, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Australia, birds, cats, chimpanzees, crocodiles, cultural evolution, Current Biology, Darwinian evolution, Field Museum of Natural History, Flight, genome, house sparrow, innovation, intelligent design, mice, New Caledonian crows, Royal Society Open Science, syrinx, tools, University of Manchester, windpipe}

News for the Birds — Smart, Gymnastic, Flute-Playing, Surviving

_{Science and Culture
November 12, 2018

Intelligent Design

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Is it reasonable that two populations would independently hit on an adaptation by chance? Read More ›