kinorhyncha Type post Author Günter Bechly Date May 3, 2024 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Early Cambrian, Ediacaran Period, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, marine invertebrates, Middle Cambrian, mud dragons, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, South China, tardigrades, velvet worms Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion Günter Bechly May 3, 2024 Evolution, Paleontology 8 The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Read More ›
Hallucigenia Type post Author David Coppedge Date August 9, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , Anomalocaris, BBC News, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, centipedes, China, common ancestry, Current Biology, cuticle, Darwin's Doubt, euarthropods, Hallucigenia, Javier Ortega-Hernández, Jean-Bernard Caron, Live Science, Middle Cambrian, Morocco, Nature (journal), nervous system, New Scientist, Precambrian strata, Science (journal), software, spiders, Stephen Meyer, University of Cambridge, velvet worms In Resolving Darwin’s Doubt, These Cambrian Fossils Are No Help David Coppedge August 9, 2023 Evolution, Paleontology 8 This is hierarchical organization, none of which is seen in the Precambrian layers beneath. Read More ›
Paleontologist examines Ediacaran fossils Type post Author Günter Bechly Date July 10, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , algae, bilateral symmetry, brachiopods, Bryozoa, Cambrian Explosion, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Small Shelly Fauna, lophophorates, Middle Cambrian, Namacalathus, Namacalathus hermanastes, Paleobiology Database, phoronids, protists, sponges, Utah Namacalathus, Alleged Ediacaran “Animal,” Fails to Refute Abrupt Cambrian Explosion Günter Bechly July 10, 2020 Evolution 13 It could be anything, from a coelenterate-grade or sponge-grade organism to even a protist or an alga. Read More ›
