Tag: ctenophores

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, bilaterian animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cnidaria, crown group, ctenophores, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, history of life, jellyfish, life cycle, Lower Cambrian, neo-Darwinian model, polyp, precambrian fossils, South China, sponges, tentacles, umbrella, Utah}

Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
September 22, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. 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, entoprocts, intelligent design, jellyfish, locomotion, muscles, nervous system, paleontologists, phoronids, scalidophorans, 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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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
March 31, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, bioRxiv, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, carbon, Casey Luskin, cilia, comb jellies, ctenophores, Current Biology, evolution, irreducibly complex systems, Michael Marshall, New Scientist, oxygen, Phanerozoic Eon, predators, Science Advances, slime, sponges, Stephen Meyer}

Cambrian Explosion: More Woes and Dodges

_{David Coppedge
March 31, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

7}

Evolutionists are still failing to explain the Cambrian explosion. They struggle to explain new complexities or else try to change the subject. Read More ›

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post

Date
November 27, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cilia, Cnidaria, cognitive capacity, 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 and Culture
November 27, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design

10}

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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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 27, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, anus, bacteria, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, ctenophores, Darwinian evolution, decomposition, Dickinsonia, dickinsoniids, Ediacaran biota, Epibaion, Facebook, fossils, fungi, glide symmetry, GUT, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, Mary Droser, Metazoa, morphology, mouth, paleontology, placozoans, protists, South Australia, sponges, Stanford University, University of California, Vendobionta}

#6 of Our Top Stories of 2018: Dickinsonia Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
December 27, 2018

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

42}

So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›

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post

Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 27, 2018

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, anus, bacteria, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cnidarians, ctenophores, Darwinian evolution, decomposition, Dickinsonia, dickinsoniids, Ediacaran biota, Epibaion, Facebook, fossils, fungi, glide symmetry, GUT, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, Mary Droser, Metazoa, morphology, mouth, paleontology, placozoans, protists, South Australia, sponges, Stanford University, University of California, Vendobionta}

Why Dickinsonia Was Most Probably Not an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
September 27, 2018

Botany, Evolution

41}

So, do high levels of cholesterol biomarkers really suggest an animal affinity of Dickinsonia? Read More ›

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post

Date
September 21, 2018

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, ctenophores, Darwinians, Douglas Axe, Eugene Koonin, fossils, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, methodological naturalism, Nature (journal), phyla, placozoans, PNAS, sponges, trilobites}

Still More Excuses for Cambrian Non-Evolution

_{Science and Culture
September 21, 2018

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Trilobites look up silently from their Burgess Shale rock slabs, with sad eyes, asking, “Where did I come from?” Read More ›

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post

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 and Culture
October 20, 2017

Evolution, Life Sciences

8}

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