Tag: Mesozoic

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, doublespeak, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, herpetology, Mesozoic, missing links, National Geographic, snakes, transitional forms, transitional fossils}

Fossil Friday: Is the Four-Legged Snake Tetrapodophis a Missing Link or Not?

_{Günter Bechly
December 22, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

24}

There should have existed transitional forms, which exhibit at least some typical features of basal snake anatomy. Read More ›

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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

9}

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
Günter Bechly

Date
October 13, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, allometric growth, crocodilians, Darwinian mechanisms, Early Triassic, fish, flippers, fossil record, giraffes, humans, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, lizards, macromutations, mammals, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mutations, neck, nothosaurs, paleontology, Permian, plesiosaurs, population genetics, sea snake, sea turtle, sloths, stem group, vertebrae, vertebrates}

Fossil Friday: Rapid Elongation of Plesiosaur Necks Points to Intelligent Design

_{Günter Bechly
October 13, 2023

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

7}

The breaking of the conserved number of cervical vertebrae is hard to reconcile with an unguided evolutionary mechanism. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 29, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, asphyxiation, birth, cannibalism, Darwinian expectations, Darwinists, embryos, evolutionary biology, falsification, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Holzmaden, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, London, Lower Jurassic, marine reptiles, Mesozoic, mothers, Natural History Museum, paleontology, Posidonia shale, pseudoscience, science denial, State Museum of Natural History, Stenopterygius quadricissus, Stuttgart}

Fossil Friday: Ichthyosaur Birth, Another Evolutionist Just-So Story Falls Apart

_{Günter Bechly
September 29, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

11}

This is not how good science is supposed to work but is rather typical for pseudoscience that shields itself against empirical falsification. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
April 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, animal phyla, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Darwinian theory, Early Cretaceous, Eocene, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, intelligent design, Lepidoptera, Mesozoic, moth}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies

_{Günter Bechly
April 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

3}

This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 14, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cartorhynchus, cetaceans, Current Biology, Darwinian gradualism, dolphins, Early Eocene, fossil record, Günter Bechly, ichthyosaur, land mammals, Mesozoic, Neo-Darwinism, Nevada, New Scientist, Pakicetus, Permian-Triassic extinction, Science (journal), whales}

New Scientist: Ichthyosaurs Evolved “Astonishingly Rapidly”

_{Casey Luskin
February 14, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

This is a case of evolutionary biology trying to explain away the data that otherwise was not directly expected under their model. Read More ›