Tag: Ctenophora

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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

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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
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

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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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Date
November 27, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cilia, Cnidaria, comb jellies, crabs, crustaceans, Ctenophora, ctenophores, Current Biology, Darwin's Black Box, fossil record, honeycomb, jellyfish, lobsters, Michael Behe, mollusks, nacre, Porifera, Precambrian, shrimp, Swansea University, The Edge of Evolution, Tohoku University, University of Michigan}

Design in the First Animals

_{Science & Culture
November 27, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Scientists debate whether ctenophores are the earliest animals to appear in the Cambrian explosion. If so, they arrived with multiple tissues, a nervous system, and a digestive system. Read More ›

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Date
October 20, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, cnidarian, comb jelly, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Ctenophora, ctenophores, Darwinism, dynein, evolution, hybridization, kinesin, muscles, Neil deGrasse Tyson, nerves, neurons, phylogeny, placozoans, Vanderbilt University, zebrafish}

Embracing Uncertainty: Evolution’s Latest Dodge

_{Science & Culture
October 20, 2017

Evolution, Life Sciences

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Faced with conflicting genetic evidence, Darwinians reach for a new “uncertainty principle” borrowed from physics. Read More ›

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Date
May 1, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, arthropod, Cambrian Explosion, comb jelly, Ctenophora, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, Stephen Meyer}

Scaffold Without a Blueprint? Another Wild Story of Cambrian “Enablement”

_{Science & Culture
May 1, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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Believe it or not: Those scaffolds you see at construction sites are what make buildings emerge. Read More ›