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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
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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 ›
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 ›
Stromatolithe - MNHT
Photo: Stromatolithe fossil, dated to about 3.4 Ga, by Muséum de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Study Finds Life’s Origin “Required a Surprisingly Short Interval of Geologic Time”

It’s certainly not impossible that life was already present on Earth at 4.2 Ga. And if it were true it would have intriguing implications. Read More ›
The Farm at the Center of the Universe
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Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Read More ›
Fossils_from_the_Weng'an_biota
Photo credit: John A. Cunningham, Kelly Vargas, Zongjun Yin, Stefan Bengtson and Philip C. J. Donoghue, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Ediacaran Animal Embryos Put to Test and Put to Rest

There are no fossil animals in the Ediacaran, when they should be found according to the gradualistic predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
Neurosymploca_oligocenica_holotype_MNHN.F.R55185_part-direct_lighting
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Fossil Friday: Zygaenid Moths — Molecular Clock vs Fossil Record

The ubiquitous mismatch between molecular clocks and the fossil record clearly represents data to be explained. Read More ›

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