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Cambrian animal phyla
Image: Cambrian animal phyla, by CNX OpenStax, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Cambrian Explosion Has Just Gone Nuclear

Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›
Tribrachidium heraldicum
Photo: Tribrachidium heraldicum from the Ediacaran period
, by Aleksey Nagovitsyn (User:Alnagov), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Precambrian House of Cards

Wow, that's cool, they not only found the elusive Ediacaran animals but even could unravel their genomes!? Read More ›
Namacalathus and Cloudina
Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils
Photo: Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils, collection of Redpath Museum, McGill University, by Daderot / CC0, via Wikimedia.

Namacalathus Revisited — Not Much to See

The new evidence is very ambiguous and totally inconclusive. No far-reaching conclusions should be drawn from such dubious material. Read More ›
Namacalathus and Cloudina
Namacalathus and Cloudina fossils, collection of Redpath Museum, McGill University, by Daderot / CC0, via Wikimedia.

Namacalathus, an Ediacaran Lophophorate Animal?

I have been writing a series of articles on alleged Ediacaran animals that have been postulated as precursors of the Cambrian explosion. Read More ›
Ikaria-wariootia

Ancestor of All Animals in 555-Million-Year-Old Ediacaran Sediments?

Ikaria wariootia is just another problematic Ediacaran fossil that could be anything from inorganic artifact to protozoan to cnidarian and yes, maybe a bilaterian worm. Read More ›
AS10-29-4324

More Excuses for Cambrian Non-Evolution

A new statistical study of impacts on the moon concludes that the appearance of an increase was an artifact of biased sampling. Read More ›
Rangeomorph

News from the Ediacaran and Cambrian

The Cambrian explosion remains one of the severest evidential challenges to Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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