Tag: living fossils

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
March 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Genetics
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, apes, Arne Schirmacher, ATP, Australopithecus, Bible, Cambrian Explosion, Casey Luskin, chimpanzees, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, designer, Energy, geneticists, German, grass, Günter Bechly, humans, Institute of Genetics, Köln, living fossils, Max Planck Institute, metabolic processes, mice, naturalism, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, nucleotide differences, origin of life, Peter Pan, protein sequences, Richard Dawkins, Science and Culture Today, subway, University of Bonn, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig, yeast}

Geneticist W. E. Lönnig on Human-Chimp DNA Similarity, and Much More

_{Granville Sewell
March 25, 2026

Biology, Genetics, Human Origins and Anthropology

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"The same people who admit that they are unable to create a single blade of grass tell you that they are absolutely sure they know how it came about." Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal embryos, Cambrian fossils, coelacanth, common ancestor, common ancestry, common characters, common descent, convergent evolution, Darwin's Finches, embryonic stage, environmental pressures, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary predictions, Galápagos finches, geological time, ginkgo trees, horseshoe crabs, hummingbirds, Linnaeus, living fossils, Max Telford, molecular clock, morphology, Nautilus, nightjars, penguins, South Africa, stasis, swallows, swifts, The Tree of Life, The Tree of Life (book), Tree of Life, tuatara, University College London, Wollemi pine}

In Stories from Max Telford’s New Book, Failed Predictions of Common Descent

_{Emily Reeves
March 10, 2026

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Well-documented examples of organisms show remarkable stasis over hundreds of millions of years. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 29, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, academia, adults, amber, antennae, astrology, beetles, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), Indohyus, larvae, living fossils, Neo-Darwinism, Pakicetus, unguided evolution, Wired}

Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles

_{Günter Bechly
November 29, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Africa, Afrotheria, Belgium, Egypt, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, living fossils, Madagascar, mammals, Namibia, Paleogene, Pleistocene}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

_{Günter Bechly
December 30, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 23, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Africa, ants, Darwinists, Egypt, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, Kenya, living fossils, mammals, Miocene, paleontology, placental mammals, Pleistocene, termites}

Fossil Friday: Miocene Aardvarks and the Abrupt Origin of Tubulidentata

_{Günter Bechly
December 23, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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So much about the congruence of anatomical and genetic similarity predicted by Darwin’s theory. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 17, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, Crato Formation, Cretaceous Period, Darwinian theory, fish, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, fossils, ID the Future, living fossils, Lower Cretaceous, mutations, natural selection, podcast}

Fossil Friday: A Dead “Living Fossil”

_{Günter Bechly
June 17, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Coelacanths are considered to be "living fossils," which do not sit well with Darwinian assumptions. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
January 10, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, birds, Charles Darwin, evolution, flowering plants, fossil record, Granville Sewell, Günter Bechly, living fossils, mammals, Max Planck Institute, University of Tübingen, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
January 10, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories). Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amniotes, evolution, genome, living fossils, Nature (journal), New Zealand, vertebrates}

“Living Fossil”? Maybe. Tuatara Genome Is Now Sequenced and Published

_{Paul Nelson
August 7, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The tuatara genome is 5GB, making it enormous relative to other vertebrates — and full of surprises. Read More ›

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Date
November 27, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Life Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, __k-review, anomalies, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, Georgia Tech, hominins, intelligent design, Israel, John Innes Centre, living fossils, oxygen, paleontology, PLOS ONE, Santa Fe Institute, thermodynamics, University of Chicago}

Living Fossils, Ancient Oxygen, Colorful Snapdragons: Anomalies Challenge Darwin’s Story

_{Science & Culture
November 27, 2017

Evolution, Geology, Life Sciences, Paleontology

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Enough anomalies can wreck a paradigm. Read More ›

Close-up of a fruit fly, fruit fly, vinegar fly (Drosophila Melanogaster) on apple, AI generated

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 23, 2010

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, __nedited, Darwin Mythology, First Rule of Adaptive Evolution, fruit flies, Jerry Coyne, living fossils, loss-of-function mutations, Michael Behe, mutations, natural selection, speciation, whale evolution}

Praised be Darwin! Do Fruit Flies Bust Behe?

_{David Klinghoffer
December 23, 2010

Evolution, Genetics

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Fruit flies are a cherished subject of such investigations because of their rapid reproduction, going from birth to death in thirty days. Read More ›