Tag: Early Cretaceous

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 29, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, biological novelty, Charles Darwin, diversification, Early Cretaceous, evolution, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), genomes, intelligent design, jumps, Las Hoyas, Late Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, nature, Nature (journal), paleontology, Philip Donoghue, Spain}

No. 4 Story of 2024: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Again

_{Günter Bechly
December 29, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 14, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, biological novelty, Charles Darwin, diversification, Early Cretaceous, evolution, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), genomes, intelligent design, jumps, Las Hoyas, Late Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous, nature, Nature (journal), paleontology, Philip Donoghue, Spain}

Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again

_{Günter Bechly
June 14, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 15, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, China, Devonian era, Early Cretaceous, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), hagfish, hemoglobin, homoplasy, Illinois, intelligent design, jawed vertebrates, keratin, lampreys, lancelets, Mazon Creek, microCT, missing links, molecular studies, science, South Africa, stem group, vertebrate evolution}

Fossil Friday: Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
March 15, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Their fossil record as well as their incongruent pattern of anatomical similarities is better explained by intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, animal phyla, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, Early Cretaceous, Eocene, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, Mesozoic, moth}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

_{Günter Bechly
April 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 24, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Aeschnidiidae, antennae, Brazil, Crato limestone, dragonfly, Early Cretaceous, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, larvae, legs}

Fossil Friday: A Strange Dragonfly Larva

_{Günter Bechly
February 24, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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In a monograph in 2007, I suggested that these larvae may not be genuine dragonflies of the suborder Anisoptera. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Aeschnidiidae, Brazil, Crato limestones, dragonflies, Early Cretaceous, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Jurassic, paleontology, predators, Upper Jurassic, wing venation}

Fossil Friday: Abrupt Appearance of a Distinct Dragonfly Group

_{Günter Bechly
February 17, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

1}

The fossil is almost complete, only the abdomen is missing and was likely bitten off by a predator. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 15, 2021

Categories
Life Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, Charles Darwin, China, Early Cretaceous, failed predictions, flowering plants, fossil record, gradualism, gymnosperms, Lower Cretaceous, Middle Triassic, Nature (journal), Norway, paleobotanists, Switzerland}

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Mesozoic Cupules Come to the Rescue?

_{Günter Bechly
June 15, 2021

Life Sciences, Paleontology

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Darwin's "abominable mystery" is not only very much alive and kicking, but it also suggests intelligent design. Read More ›