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Photo credit: Dallas Krentzel, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record

The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity. Read More ›
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Photo: Ludodactylus sibbicki, by G. Bechly 2008.

Fossil Friday: Ludodactylus and the Origin of Pterosaurs

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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Image: Artist's depiction of <I>Rhamphorhynchus muensteri</I>, by Oleg Kuznetsov — 3depix — http://3depix.com/ 3D Epix Inc., CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin 

Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory. Read More ›

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