Tag: Ediacaran biota

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 24, 2025

Categories
Historical Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, Aspidella, Ausia, Ausia fenestrata, Australia, California, Cambrian Explosion, certainty, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Dilemma, Darwin’s Doubt, Death Valley, debates, ecology, Ediacaran biota, fossils, Günter Bechly, GUT, metazoans, muscles, Nama Group, Namibia, nervous system, organs, peacock, Petalonamae, Pteridinium, Rangeomorpha, sea squirt, Simon Conway Morris, South Africa, Stephen Meyer, suspension feeders, taphonomy, urochordate}

Despite Exceptionally Well-Preserved Namibian Fossils, Ediacaran Mystery Remains

_{David Coppedge
November 24, 2025

Historical Sciences, Paleontology

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Simon Conway Morris described the Ediacaran ecology as a “sleepy” world of simple, passive creatures bearing no resemblance to what was to come. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 18, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, Big Bangs, Cambrian Explosion, Cambridge, creativity, Darwinian evolution, David Berlinski, Ediacaran biota, England, explosions, flowering plants, fossil record, Gerd Müller, gradualism, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, jumps, Neo-Darwinism, predictions, revolutions, Richard Dawkins, Royal Society, saltations}

“Doesn’t the Fossil Record Prove Darwinian Theory?”

_{David Klinghoffer
December 18, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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You’ve heard that challenge a million times. But as paleontologist Günter Bechly explains, the opposite is true. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 6, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, algae, bilaterian animals, Cambrian fossils, cnidarians, Current Biology, Cyanobacteria, Ediacaran biota, falsification, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, Kimberella, molecular clock studies, motility, nematode, New Scientist, Precambrian, Professor Dave, roundworms, UC Riverside}

Fossil Friday: Are Ediacaran “Fishing Hooks” a Breakthrough Discovery of Precambrian Animals?

_{Günter Bechly
December 6, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Let’s have a look at the newest edition of the Precambrian animal guessing game. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 8, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, dickinsoniids, Ediacaran biota, Epibaion, flatworms, Fossil Friday (series), jello, microbial mats, muscles, nervous system, Precambrian, protists, South Australia, trace fossils, Tribrachidium}

Fossil Friday: An Ediacaran Animal with a Question Mark

_{Günter Bechly
November 8, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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To claim that such undefinable blobs in sandstone represent fossils of the oldest motile animals is massively overselling the evidence to say the least. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 11, 2024

Categories
Genetics
Paleontology
Tagged
, assemblages, Avalon explosion, biodiversity, biologists, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Charnia, Charnwood Forest, Ediacaran biota, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic information, intelligent design, interpretation, magical thinking, paleontologists, Precambrian, radiations, radiometric dating, Science Advances, sedimentary rock, University of Edinburgh}

Fossil Friday: The Avalon Explosion and the Power of Maybe

_{Günter Bechly
October 11, 2024

Genetics, Paleontology

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While evolutionary biology has no explanation even according to the authors themselves, intelligent design theory does. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 7, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, biological novelty, Cambrian Explosion, Communications Earth & Environment, complex life, diversification, earth, Ediacaran biota, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, magnetic field, oxygenation, sudden appearance, The Privileged Planet, University of Rochester}

Fossil Friday: No, Magnetic Field Collapse Did Not Trigger the Emergence of Animals

_{Günter Bechly
June 7, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Paleontology, Physical Sciences

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This adds to the many points of fine-tuning that make Earth a privileged planet that can uniquely sustain life. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Avalon explosion, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Christian Bjerrum, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Ken Towe, oxygen, Precambrian, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer}

No. 3 Story of 2023: Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

_{Günter Bechly
December 30, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, artifact hypothesis, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, cnidarian, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Derek Briggs, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, empirical data, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, molecular clock studies, paleontology, Precambrian strata, sponge, Stephen Meyer, transitional forms, Trends in Ecology and Evolution}

Fossil Friday: New Study Challenges the Artifact Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
October 20, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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It is time for Darwinists to stop their science denial and face the fact that empirical data consistently contradict core predictions of their theory. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 21, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Andrew Knoll, animals, annelids, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Charnia, Cnidaria, Darwin's Doubt, Douglas Erwin, echinoderms, Ediacaran biota, fact check, flatworms, James Valentine, Mistaken Point, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, photosynthesis, precambrian fossils, Science Alert, seafloor, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, sunlight}

Fact Check: No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma

_{Casey Luskin
September 21, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Paleontology

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"It looked like a fern. But as a budding geologist, [UK teenager Tina] Negus knew these 600 million year old rocks were too old to host such a plant." Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 1, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Avalon explosion, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Christian Bjerrum, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Ken Towe, oxygen, Precambrian, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer}

Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

_{Günter Bechly
September 1, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution. Read More ›