Tag: ichthyosaur

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
October 6, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, adaptation, aerodynamics, birds, China, empirical data, evolution, flapping, Flight, forelimb, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaur, Liaoning, mechanics, muscles, paleontology, storytelling, wings}

Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust

_{Günter Bechly
October 6, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cartorhynchus, cetaceans, Current Biology, Darwinian gradualism, dolphins, Early Eocene, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ichthyosaur, land mammals, Mesozoic, Neo-Darwinism, Nevada, New Scientist, Pakicetus, Permian-Triassic extinction, Science (journal), whales}

New Scientist: Ichthyosaurs Evolved “Astonishingly Rapidly”

_{Casey Luskin
February 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

This is a case of evolutionary biology trying to explain away the data that otherwise was not directly expected under their model. 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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Date
April 27, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, baleen whales, blue whale, cow, Cretaceous, evolution, humpback whale, ichthyosaur, Live Science, Living Waters, marine biology, National Geographic, Science Advances, Science Magazine, University of Washington, whales, wolf}

The Biggest Sea Animals: Whaling for Evolution

_{Science and Culture
April 27, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The largest animals that ever lived defy simple evolutionary stories. Read More ›