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Pterosaur
Photo: Ludodactylus sibbicki, by G. Bechly 2008.

Farewell to Günter Bechly

I told Richard Sternberg a story from own experience. I learned about more than paleontology from Bechly. Read More ›
Hesperornis skeleton
Photo: Hesperornis skeleton, Ghedoghedo via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

No. 5 Story of 2024: New Evidence Against Dino-Bird Ancestry

Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›
Nakridletia
Image: Strashila, redrawn by Bechly after Grimaldi & Engel 2005, fig. 12.6.

Fossil Friday: Nakridletia — The Rise and Fall (and Possible Resurrection) of a Fossil Insect Order

So, were strashilids a distinct order of parasitic insects or just aquatic flies? Read More ›
explanatory-deficits
Photo credit: Günter Bechly.

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

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

Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”

The history of life can perhaps be likened to a collection of different musical themes. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the four beginning notes are the theme. Read More ›
Whole_chitinozoan_cropped
Photo credit: en:User:Verisimilus, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Chitinozoa — Enigmatic Microfossils from the Paleozoic Era

We may now add the mysterious Chitinozoa to this ever-growing list of products of the burst of biological creativity in the Early Cambrian. Read More ›
Charnia_Spun
Photo credit: Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Avalon Explosion and the Power of Maybe

While evolutionary biology has no explanation even according to the authors themselves, intelligent design theory does. Read More ›
Hobbit-man
Photo credit: Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/fr/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Hobbits Thwart Darwinian Predictions Again

Evolutionists reliably tend to follow one foundational principle: “What must not be, cannot be!” Read More ›
Thalassodromeus_in_Japan
Photo credit: Kabacchi, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: When Paleontologists Let Turtles Fly

Do such misidentifications and interpretational problems show that Darwinism is false and intelligent design is true? Of course not. Read More ›
Gabonionta_II
Photo credit: Ventus55, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Update on the Dubious Nature of the Precambrian Gabonionta

What we definitely do not find here is any credible evidence for an evolutionary transition to genuine multicellular eukaryotes. Read More ›

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