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Eosinopteryx
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Fossil Friday: More Evidence That “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

It definitely looks like the common dino-to-bird narrative has been massively oversold to the public. Read More ›
Eurypterus_remipes_001
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Fossil Friday: Sea Scorpions Defy Darwinian Expectations

Wait, what? That's it? Mere speculation based on the fact that they found nothing! Read More ›
fossil_croc
Photo credit: Dallas Krentzel, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record

The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›
Chilesaurus_diegosarezi
Photo: Chilesaurus diegosarezi, by ケラトプスユウタ, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur

Different studies based on different data do not converge on one true tree of life. Read More ›
Fouquea_superba_holotype_MNHN_direct_lighting
Photo credit: RECOLNAT (ANR-AA-INBS) - Gaëlle Doitteau, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. Read More ›
Tyrannosaurid_FMNH_PR308
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Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids

History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis. Read More ›
USNM_PAL_83935_Hallucigenia_sparsa_Image_1
Photo credit: Han Zeng, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues

What if scientists were to discover next month that there was no oxygenation in the Cambrian but the exact opposite? Read More ›
Crâne_de_smilodon_exposé_au_Museu_de_Zoologia_da_Universidade_de_São_Paulo,_Brazil
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Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them. Read More ›
NMNH-USNMPAL57628Pikaia2
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Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative. Read More ›
Kayentatherium_wellesi
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Fossil Friday: Time Wanderers Debunk Popular Scenario of Mammalian Evolution

The crude Darwinist presumption of more advanced descendants outcompeting their primitive ancestors turned out to be wrong once again. Read More ›

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