Tag: Mistaken Point

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 21, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Andrew Knoll, animals, annelids, arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Charnia, Cnidaria, Darwin's Doubt, Douglas Erwin, echinoderms, Ediacaran biota, fact check, flatworms, James Valentine, Mistaken Point, On the Origin of Species, paleontology, photosynthesis, precambrian fossils, Science Alert, seafloor, Sean B. Carroll, Stephen Meyer, sunlight}

Fact Check: No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma

_{Casey Luskin
September 21, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Paleontology

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"It looked like a fern. But as a budding geologist, [UK teenager Tina] Negus knew these 600 million year old rocks were too old to host such a plant." Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, animals, bilateral symmetry, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Canada, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran organisms, Ediacaran Period, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), Gregory Retallack, lichens, Mistaken Point, paleontologists, trace fossils}

Fossil Friday: Dickinsonia, the Ediacaran Animal that Wasn’t

_{Günter Bechly
July 29, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology

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Gregory Retallack is a kind of maverick paleontologist, who endorses a fringe hypothesis that Ediacaran organisms were not marine but terrestrial lichens. Read More ›