Tag: jellyfish

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, __trending, Anomalocaris, arthropods, body plans, British Columbia, Burgess Shale, Burgess Shale Type, Cambrian Explosion, Canada, Chengjiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, chordates, cnidarians, comb jellies, complex body plans, ctenophores, Darwin's Doubt, fossils, gills, guts, Han Zeng, Huayuan, Huayuan County, Huayuan site, James Woodford, jellyfish, Lagerstätte, lobopodians, magical thinking, Marble Canyon, molluscs, mutation/selection mechanism, Nature (journal), nerves, New Scientist, oxygen molecules, oxygen theory, poriferans, priapulids, Sinsk Event, soft tissues, transitional forms, worms}

Get to Know the Name: Huayuan Is a Major New Cambrian Fossil Site Found in China

_{David Coppedge
February 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Another Cambrian fossil site that rivals the original Burgess Shale has been announced to the world. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 26, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, Atlantic Ocean, Cape Cod, dinosaurs, Drew Gentry, endangered species, evolution, hawksbill sea turtle, humans, hypothermia, Indian Ocean, intelligent design, jellyfish, leatherback sea turtles, Mozambique Channel, reptiles, Scientific Reports, sea turtles, snapping turtle, snorkeling, Sumatra, tragedy of the commons, Turtle Conservation Technical Operating Unit, University of Alabama, zoology}

Oldest Ancestor of Modern Sea Turtles Was — A Sea Turtle

_{David Coppedge
January 26, 2026

Intelligent Design, Zoology

6}

There are seven species of sea turtles in the world today, all beautifully designed and, sadly, all endangered. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 25, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, birds, cows, EMBO Reports, evolution, fingernails, fish, flies, health, jaws, jellyfish, just-so stories, lizards, mammals, Nature (journal), protocells, storytelling, supernova, Titan}

What’s More Deserving of Ig Nobel Prizes than Evolutionary Just-So Stories?

_{David Coppedge
September 25, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

The committee passed up some research that would have raised eyebrows and given the crowd some hearty laughs. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 27, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bananas, bioluminescence, corals, Darwinism, Design Inference, flowers, honeybees, intelligent design, jellyfish, parrots, PNAS, pollinators, radiation, scorpions, structural color, tetrapods}

Fluorescent Animals: Can They Be Darwinized?

_{David Coppedge
June 27, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Many animals and plants exhibit fluorescence, changing color in ultraviolet light. Whether this property is adaptive has never been thoroughly investigated. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arms, behavior, brain, consciousness, information, intelligence, jellyfish, learning, lions, marine biologists, nervous system, neurons, neuroscientists, octopuses, orcas, University of Washington, wolves}

Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 2, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bioengineering, birds, cells, communication, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, human body, human consciousness, humans, illusion, insects, Integrated information theory, intelligence, jellyfish, Macquarie University, Michael Levin, Nature (journal), octopuses, panpsychism, physicalism, Tufts University, University of Montreal}

Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

8}

Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, bilaterian animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cnidaria, ctenophores, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, history of life, jellyfish, life cycle, Lower Cambrian, neo-Darwinian model, precambrian fossils, South China, sponges, tentacles, Utah}

Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
September 22, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 17, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Avalon explosion, body plans, brains, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Cnidaria, cnidarians, Darwin's House of Cards, Darwinian theory, evolution, Fire-Maker, Graham Budd, intelligent design, jellyfish, Michael Denton, Nevada, oxygen, reactive oxygen species, Royal Ontario Museum, Science (journal), textbooks, Tom Bethell, University of Copenhagen}

From Bad to Worse for Darwinism, as New Cambrian Explosion Finds Arrive

_{David Coppedge
August 17, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

7}

Less time and more complexity are compressed into an impossible challenge for evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 22, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, bilaterians, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, carbon, Cnidaria, comb jellies, Ctenophora, ctenophores, Darwin's Doubt, intelligent design, jellyfish, locomotion, muscles, nervous system, paleontologists, Science Advances, Stephen Meyer}

Earliest Comb Jellies Wore Armor — “Remarkable,” Say Researchers

_{David Coppedge
June 22, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

7}

It would be surprising, under an evolutionary view, to find such a complex system in the earliest animal fossils. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, atmosphere, California, carbon, climate change, diatoms, foresight, global warming, habitability, jellyfish, NASA, Nature Communications, New Zealand, Penn State, phylogeny, plankton, providence, reporters, Science (journal), Southern California, tunicates}

Meet the Ghostly Organisms that Rescue the Planet

_{David Coppedge
February 22, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

9}

A man was paddleboarding last month when he came across a mysterious creature three miles off the shoreline of California. Read More ›