Tag: Ediacaran fossils

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 20, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, air bladder, animals, beach, beachcombing, bilaterian animals, brown algae, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, convergent evolution, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran fossils, evolutionary theory, fauna, flora, fossil-hunting, fossils, hemichordate worms, holdfast, kelp, kelp stipe, Kingdom Protista, Margaretia dorus, Pacific Northwest, paleontology, plants, Precambrian strata, protists, rock hammer, Science (journal), tide-pooling, Western Washington}

Beach Stroll Casts Further Doubt on Some Supposed Ediacaran Bilaterian Fossils

_{Casey Luskin
April 20, 2026

Evolution, Paleontology

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In one instance I found a kelp on the beach with its holdfast still nicely attached. A photo of it is at the top. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 16, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, algae, Avalon explosion, Darwinian evolution, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, evidence for evolution, fact check, falsified theories, Fossil Friday (series), India, junk science, microbial mats, Precambrian, radiometric dating, Spriggina, Tribrachidium, Yale University}

Fossil Friday: The Vindhyan Controversy and Debunking Alleged Ediacaran and Cambrian Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
February 16, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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The fancy speculations about the evolution of multicellular life and early animals turned out to be just smoke and mirrors. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, circular reasoning, Darwin's House of Cards, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran organisms, evolutionary biology, Facebook, Gregory Retallack, Ikaria, Mary Droser, muscles, nervous system, paleontology, Precambrian House of Cards Series, Tom Bethell, Tree of Life, Tribrachidium, University of Oregon}

Evans et al. (2021): All Four Examples Debunked

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2021

Evolution, Paleontology

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Evans et al. (2021) seem to have been well aware of the circular reasoning in their argument. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 18, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, lophotrochozoans, metazoans, Nama Group, Namacalathus, Namibia, paleontology, Science Advances, Stephen Meyer}

Resurrecting Namacalathus as an Ediacaran Animal

_{Günter Bechly
January 18, 2021

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The new fossils stem from a layer in the Nama Group of Namibia, just below an ash bed that could be radiometrically dated to 547.32 ± 0.65 million years. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 19, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, circulatory system, Cnidaria, Ediacaran fossils, evolution, feeding apparatus, feeding traces, fossils, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus, mollusks, movement, oxygenation, Paleobiology Database, Parvancorina, Precambrian, scratch marks}

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis, Continued

_{Günter Bechly
September 19, 2020

Evolution

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One researchers has preferred to classify Kimberella among the Ediacaran "fossil problematica.” Read More ›

Ventral death-mask of Kimberella quadrata

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 15, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran organisms, feeding apparatus, fossils, grazing, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus, microbial mats, Mikhail Fedonkin, morphology, proboscis, scratch marks, trace fossils, White Sea}

Kimberella — Traces and a Trace-maker

_{Günter Bechly
September 15, 2020

Evolution

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The body fossils are generally positioned at the focal points of the fan-shaped scratch marks. Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, arthropods, bioRxiv, body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian fossils, Cambrian News, Canada, carbon, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran fossils, evolution, fossil record, geochemistry, oxygen, PNAS, Stephen Meyer}

In Carbon Isotope Excursions, Darwinists Lose Another Excuse for the Cambrian Explosion

_{Science & Culture
July 23, 2020

Biology, Evolution

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The claim that a spike in carbon isotope concentrations led to the explosion of biological diversity in the Cambrian doesn’t hold up, as if it would have helped, anyway. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Australian National University, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran organisms, fossilization, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, junk science, Kimberella, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Science (journal), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

“Ice Cube” Study of Ediacaran Fossils Is Junk Science

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2019

Evolution

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The authors discuss the mode of preservation of Ediacaran fossils, and they document taphonomical laboratory experiments. Read More ›