Tag: Middle Triassic

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Darwin's Dilemma, Ernst Haeckel, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Lower Cambrian, Middle Triassic, Mongolia, Namibia, Precambrian, protists, Richard Dawkins, snowball Earth, The Greatest Show on Earth, Upper Triassic, zooplankton}

Fossil Friday: Protists Add to the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
November 17, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

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Not even the tiniest and most abundant organisms seem to confirm the gradualist predictions of Darwinian evolution. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 2, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, flowering plants, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, Middle Triassic, North America, pollen, Switzerland, Young Earth Creationists}

Fossil Friday: Is Triassic Angiosperm-Like Pollen a Solution to Darwin’s Abominable Mystery?

_{Günter Bechly
December 2, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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There is one remaining issue to address, which is palynology, the science of fossil pollen. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 1, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Bavaria, China, convergence, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, Germany, intelligent design, Middle Triassic, Neo-Darwinism, reptiles, turtles, Upper Jurassic}

Fossil Friday: Turtles All the Way Down

_{Günter Bechly
July 1, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Contrary to the gradualistic expectations of Darwin’s theory, the distinct body plan of turtles appeared abruptly in the Late Triassic. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 15, 2021

Categories
Life Sciences
Paleontology
Tagged
, abominable mystery, angiosperms, Charles Darwin, China, Early Cretaceous, failed predictions, flowering plants, fossil record, gradualism, gymnosperms, Lower Cretaceous, Middle Triassic, Nature (journal), Norway, Switzerland}

Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”: Mesozoic Cupules Come to the Rescue?

_{Günter Bechly
June 15, 2021

Life Sciences, Paleontology

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Darwin's "abominable mystery" is not only very much alive and kicking, but it also suggests intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 17, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, cows, Dickinsonia, Germany, Kimberella, Kimberella series, microbial mats, Middle Triassic, Mikhail Fedonkin, mollusks, protozoans, scratch marks, trace fossils, Wiwaxia}

Kimberella — The Oldest Radula (Not)

_{Günter Bechly
September 17, 2020

Evolution

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There is a strange fact that shows that any interpretation of these trace fossils has to be taken with a grain of salt. Read More ›