Tag: Ediacaran organisms

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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
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 ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran Period, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), Gregory Retallack, lichens, Mistaken Point, paleontologists, trace fossils}

Fossil Friday: Dickinsonia, the Ediacaran Animal that Wasn’t

_{Günter Bechly
July 29, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Gregory Retallack is a kind of maverick paleontologist, who endorses a fringe hypothesis that Ediacaran organisms were not marine but terrestrial lichens. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 3, 2022

Categories
Biology
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Arthur Hunt, Basilosaurus, bilaterian animals, central nervous system, cichlid fish, compound eyes, Darwinists, dog breeds, Dunning-Kruger effect, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, Evolution News, exoskeleton, fact check, fossil record, Hawaiian Silverswords, honeycreepers, Joe Felsenstein, John Harshman, Lake Malawi, molecular clock, no true Scotsman, otters, Pakicetus, Panda's Thumb, Peaceful Science, phenotypic plasticity, Puck Mendelssohn, Rusophycus, species pair challenge, trace fossils, University of Kentucky, Young Earth Creationists}

Fact Check: Hawaiian Silverswords Fail the Species Pair Challenge

_{Günter Bechly
May 3, 2022

Biology, Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Even though the differences appear superficially striking, they do not involve any novel body plans (i.e., no new proteins, new tissues, or new organs). Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 1, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian biota, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, David Gelernter, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran organisms, evolution, Evolution News, evolutionists, first appearance date, fungus, glide symmetry, Gregory Retallack, Ilya Bobrovskiy, latest appearance date, Mongolia, Nama Basin, Namibia, Neo-Darwinism, Peaceful Science, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, University of Zurich, Vendobionta, Yale University}

Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2021: Cambrian Explosion Goes Nuclear

_{Günter Bechly
January 1, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, arthropods, Cambrian biota, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Charles Darwin, China, Darwin's Doubt, David Gelernter, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran animals, Ediacaran organisms, Evolution News, evolutionists, first appearance date, fungus, glide symmetry, Gregory Retallack, Ilya Bobrovskiy, latest appearance date, Mongolia, Nama Basin, Namibia, Neo-Darwinism, Peaceful Science, Science (journal), Stephen Meyer, University of Zurich, Vendobionta, Yale University}

The Cambrian Explosion Has Just Gone Nuclear

_{Günter Bechly
April 8, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Here are two very interesting updates to my recent articles on alleged Ediacaran animals and the Cambrian Explosion. 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, Evans et al. (2021), evolutionary biology, Facebook, Gregory Retallack, Ikaria, lichen, marine protozoans, Mary Droser, muscles, nervous system, paleontology, Precambrian House of Cards Series, Tom Bethell, Tree of Life, Tribrachidium, trilobozoans, 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
March 28, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Tagged
, body plans, computer model, Ediacaran organisms, fluid dynamics, fossil record, Mark McMenamin, Nama Group, Precambrian House of Cards Series, South Africa, Tribrachidium, Trilobozoa, trilobozoans, Zimnie Gory}

Unknown Biology of Trilobozoa

_{Günter Bechly
March 28, 2021

Anatomy, Biology, Ecology, Evolution

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Not much is known about the anatomy, biology, and ecology of the enigmatic trilobozoans. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 25, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Seilacher, Australia, cnidarians, ctenophorans, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran Period, Mark McMenamin, morphology, Precambrian House of Cards Series, publish or perish, Rugoconites enigmaticus, South Australia, spicules, symmetry, Trilobozoa, trilobozoans}

Examining Potential Other Trilobozoans

_{Günter Bechly
March 25, 2021

Evolution

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Last but not least, there is this gem: In 1986 strange mushroom-shaped deep-sea animals were collected offshore South Australia. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animals, Dickinsonia, Ediacara Biota, Ediacaran organisms, Ikaria, Kimberella, Metazoa, phyla, Placozoa, Precambrian House of Cards Series, Triradialomorpha}

Ediacarans Are Not Animals

_{Günter Bechly
March 23, 2021

Evolution

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Even Evans et al. (2021) themselves admitt that "phylogenetic affinities for most of the Ediacara Biota remain enigmatic." Read More ›