Tag: Mark McMenamin

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 3, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, academic freedom, Amazon, beak, cephalopod, creationists, Darwin's Doubt, dissidents, Donald Prothero, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Mark McMenamin, Mesozoic, Neo-Darwinism, paleontologist, peer-reviewed journals, PZ Myers, Stephen Meyer, suckers, Switzerland, tentacles, thought police, vertebrae}

Fossil Friday: Triassic Kraken Hypothesis Provoked Scornful Darwinist Revenge

_{Günter Bechly
November 3, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Instead of a reasonable and fair scientific debate, McMenamin’s hypothesis has been ridiculed by other scientists and science journalists. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
December 23, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Allison C. Daley, arthropods, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran Period, evolution, fossil record, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Mark McMenamin, Marten Scheffer, neo-Darwinian mechanisms, Princeton University Press, Science Uprising, Simon Conway Morris, Spriggina, Stephen Meyer}

Was Spriggina an Evolutionary Ancestor of Arthropods?

_{Casey Luskin
December 23, 2021

Evolution, Paleontology

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For those wedded to an evolutionary interpretation of life’s history, the fossil and genetic evidence leave the origin of arthropods a major mystery. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 28, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Biology
Ecology
Evolution
Tagged
, body plans, computer model, Ediacaran organisms, fluid dynamics, fossil record, Mark McMenamin, Nama Group, Precambrian House of Cards Series, South Africa, Tribrachidium, Trilobozoa, trilobozoans, Zimnie Gory}

Unknown Biology of Trilobozoa

_{Günter Bechly
March 28, 2021

Anatomy, Biology, Ecology, Evolution

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Not much is known about the anatomy, biology, and ecology of the enigmatic trilobozoans. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 26, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, cnidarian, echinoderms, Ediacaran Period, fungus, jellyfish, lophophorates, marine invertebrates, Mark McMenamin, medusoid, Metazoa, Mikhail Fedonkin, Precambrian House of Cards Series, sponges, Tribrachidium, Tribrachidium heraldicum, Trilobozoa, Vendobionta}

Uncertain Affinities of Trilobozoa

_{Günter Bechly
March 26, 2021

Evolution

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That the same fossils can be attributed to at least six different phyla of marine invertebrates as well as terrestrial fungi really should give reason to pause. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
March 25, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Seilacher, Australia, cnidarians, ctenophorans, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran Period, Mark McMenamin, morphology, Precambrian House of Cards Series, publish or perish, Rugoconites enigmaticus, South Australia, spicules, symmetry, Trilobozoa, trilobozoans}

Examining Potential Other Trilobozoans

_{Günter Bechly
March 25, 2021

Evolution

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Last but not least, there is this gem: In 1986 strange mushroom-shaped deep-sea animals were collected offshore South Australia. 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 quadrata, Kimberella series, Kimberellomorpha, Mark McMenamin, mollusks, Precambrian strata, Tribrachidium, White Sea, Zimnie Gory}

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 ›