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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 11, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, comb jelly, Ediacaran biota, fossils, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, limpets, mantle, pharynx, proboscis, teeth, White Sea}

Kimberella — Four Phases of Interpretation

_{Günter Bechly
September 11, 2020

Evolution

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In the quite checkered history of the detailed reconstruction of Kimberella, we can distinguish four distinct successive phases. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, bilaterian animals, body size, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran organisms, fossil record, interpretation, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Metamorphosis, microbial mats, motility, Precambrian, sexual dimorphism, tissues, trace fossils}

Kimberella — Interpreting the Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
September 10, 2020

Evolution

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One of the few features that are uncontroversial is the body size: The fossils measure usually 1-5 cm in length. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, bilaterians, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran Period, feeding traces, fossil record, Kimberella, Kimberella series, limpets, motility, Precambrian strata, taphonomy, trace fossils}

Kimberella — Conflicting Evidence from Taphonomy

_{Günter Bechly
September 7, 2020

Evolution, Paleontology

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The fossilization of Kimberella specimens was most likely based on rapid burial with sand during storm events. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 6, 2020

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, ecosystem, Ediacaran biota, feeding traces, fossil record, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series}

Conflicting Views about Kimberella’s Ecology

_{Günter Bechly
September 6, 2020

Ecology, Evolution

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Based on the same fossil evidence, there is obviously much room for speculation and quite different opinions. 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 series, Mark McMenamin, mollusks, Precambrian strata, Tribrachidium, White Sea}

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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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, animal phyla, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Eumetazoa, evidence, evolution, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, Metazoa, molecular clock, mollusks}

Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk?

_{Günter Bechly
September 3, 2020

Evolution

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If identified as an animal, it would “predate the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian animal phyla as a kind of ‘advance guard.’” Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 6, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, China, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran era, Evolution News, fossilization, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Kimberella, Metazoa, Mongolia, Namacalathus, paleontologists, Royal Society, Stephen Meyer, taphonomy, trilobites}

The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis

_{Günter Bechly
July 6, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwinists have to face the fact that a core prediction of their theory miserably failed an important empirical test. Read More ›

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Date
October 7, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, animals, arthropod, BBC News, bilaterians, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Darwin's Doubt, earthworms, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Kimberella, lophotrochozoans, Nature (journal), New Scientist, Stephen Meyer, trilobite, University of Edinburgh, Yilingia spiciformis}

Worming Evolution into the Cambrian Explosion

_{Science & Culture
October 7, 2019

Evolution

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A new fossil worm from the closing days of the Ediacaran is being celebrated as a missing link that demonstrates a gradual Cambrian diversification, not an explosion. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 29, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, Australian National University, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran fossils, Ediacaran organisms, fossilization, Ilya Bobrovskiy, Jochen Brocks, junk science, Kimberella, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Science (journal), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

“Ice Cube” Study of Ediacaran Fossils Is Junk Science

_{Günter Bechly
March 29, 2019

Evolution

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The authors discuss the mode of preservation of Ediacaran fossils, and they document taphonomical laboratory experiments. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 29, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Anomalocaris, artifact hypothesis, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian theory, David Klinghoffer, Debating Darwin's Doubt, Donald Prothero, Ediacaran Period, fossil record, Graham Budd, Hallucigenia, Kimberella, Nick Matzke, Oxford University, paleontology, phyla, PZ Myers, Spriggina, Stephen Meyer, trilobites}

Alleged Refutation of the Cambrian Explosion Confirms Abruptness, Vindicates Meyer

_{Günter Bechly
May 29, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The top-down pattern of appearance of animal phyla during the Cambrian explosion represents major conflicting evidence for Darwinian evolution. Read More ›