Tag: holotype

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 26, 2025

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, __recommended, animal butchery, Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, Australopithecines, Australopithecus, computer vision, fossil record, holotype, hominids, Homo (genus), Homo erectus, Homo habilis, human origins, humans, hunting, IFL Science, leopards, meat eating, morphological traits, Olduvai Gorge, predator–prey relationship, Rice University, stone-tool making, taphonomy}

Not a “Turning Point”: Study Finds Homo habilis Was Hunted as Prey

_{Casey Luskin
September 26, 2025

Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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The proposals of this study are very consistent with what we have long argued here. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 12, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Anomalocaris, arthropods, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Fossil Friday (series), Hallucigenia, holotype, lancelets, Pikaia, Royal Ontario Museum, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould}

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

_{Günter Bechly
July 12, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 11, 2022

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Biomimetics, Brazil, Crato Formation, evolution, forewings, Fossil Friday (series), holotype, intelligent design, Lower Cretaceous, origami, Permian period, Stuttgart Natural History Museum, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Complex Wing Folding of Earwigs

_{Günter Bechly
November 11, 2022

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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This highly complex mode of wing folding is one of the many examples of engineering marvels in insects that strongly suggest intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 28, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Crato Formation, fish, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, holotype, Late Triassic, Lower Cretaceous, Preondactylus, pterosaur, Scleromochlus, Upper Triassic}

Fossil Friday: Ludodactylus and the Origin of Pterosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
October 28, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Outside of Darwinian fantasy land, we lack any transitional fossils to document an assumed gradual evolutionary development of characteristic pterosaur wings. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, beetle, bivalve, Cretaceous, Darwinian theory, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, holotype, Japan, Japanese, Miocene, mollusk, Research, sea snake}

Fossil Friday: Moniopterus — Snake, Beetle, or Mollusk?

_{Günter Bechly
October 7, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Scientists are only humans and many of them see what they want to see. Fossils often leave a lot of room for wild imagination and wishful thinking. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, Cambrian Explosion, Crato Formation, crocodiles, Crurotarsi, Darwin critics, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), holotype, ichthyosaur, intelligent design, lizards, Lower Cretaceous, Mammaliaformes, mammals, Nature Communications, Peter Ward, pterosaurs, turtles, Upper Triassic}

Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 1, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Science Reporting
Tagged
, BBC, Egypt, evolution, fossils, geologists, holotype, imagination, legs, mandible, National Public Radio, New York Post, Newsweek, Sahara Desert, skeleton, vertebrae, whale evolution}

Evolutionary Imagination and Belief Drive False Claims of a “Four-Legged Whale”

_{Casey Luskin
September 1, 2021

Evolution, Science Reporting

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Perhaps this organism had four legs. Perhaps it had flippers. Perhaps it was closely related to whales. Perhaps it has nothing to do with whales. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 4, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, holotype, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella quadrata, Kimberella series, Kimberellomorpha, Mark McMenamin, mollusks, Precambrian strata, Tribrachidium, White Sea, Zimnie Gory}

Kimberella — A Checkered History

_{Günter Bechly
September 4, 2020

Evolution

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John Kimber collected the first fossils of this organism and died tragically at age 38 during an expedition in South Australia in 1964. Read More ›

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Date
July 9, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amber, Brazil, cockroach, Crato Formation, Cretaceous, Gondwana, Günter Bechly, holotype, Myanmar, paleontology}

This Critter Is Named for Günter Bechly

_{Science and Culture
July 9, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The photo above is another species of the same genus that Dr. Bechly established in 2007. Read More ›