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Branching_archaeocyath
Photo credit: Killamator, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Update on Cambrian Bryozoans

The authors emphasize that “the origin of the bryozoans remains a mystery” but explicitly confirm the reality of the Cambrian Explosion. Read More ›
Hesperornis skeleton
Photo: Hesperornis skeleton, Ghedoghedo via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fossil Friday: New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds

Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs. Read More ›
Charnia-masoni
Photo: Charnia masoni, by Verisimilus at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

No. 3 Story of 2023: Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

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 ›
bird tracks
Photo: Trisauropodiscus and bird tracks, Abrahams et al., CC-BY-4.0.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Bird Tracks Expand the Temporal Paradox

The origin of birds involves a severe problem for Darwinists, which paleo-ornithologist Alan Feduccia has called a temporal paradox. Read More ›
Tetrapodophis
Image: Tetrapodophis, photo Tischlinger in Gramling 2016, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Is the Four-Legged Snake Tetrapodophis a Missing Link or Not?

There should have existed transitional forms, which exhibit at least some typical features of basal snake anatomy. Read More ›
chimera
Photo: Neuropteran larva from Burmese amber, Haug et al. 2019 fig. 1, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Cretaceous Insect Chimera Illustrates a Design Principle

Why does this fossil insect specimen have implications for intelligent design? The reason lies in the striking convergences it exhibits. Read More ›
Cambrian Bryozoa
Photo: Fossil bryozoan, Carboniferous of Ohio, James St. John via Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0 DEED.

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Read More ›
protist
Photo credit: Andreas Drews, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion

Not even the tiniest and most abundant organisms seem to confirm the gradualist predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
caterpillar
Photo: Caterpillar in Baltic amber, by Manukyan Andranik via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 International).

Fossil Friday: How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs, or Not

In spite of all the scientific efforts by Darwinists, the origin of complete metamorphosis in holometabolan insects remains an unsolved mystery. Read More ›
kraken
Photo: Ichthyosaur vertebra, Liassic Germany, by G. Bechly.

Fossil Friday: Triassic Kraken Hypothesis Provoked Scornful Darwinist Revenge

Instead of a reasonable and fair scientific debate, McMenamin’s hypothesis has been ridiculed by other scientists and science journalists. Read More ›

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