Tag: Paleogene

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Alan Feduccia, American Museum of Natural History, arachnids, Bayesian reasoning, Casey Luskin, common descent, Cretaceous, Darwinism, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, modern birds, molecular biologists, molecular clock studies, New York Times, Paleogene, phylogenomics}

Fossil Friday: The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess

_{Günter Bechly
February 23, 2024

Evolution, Paleontology

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There was an abrupt origin, a burst of biological creativity, which is best explained by an infusion of new information from an intelligent agent. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
October 12, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, angiosperms, birds, butterflies, Chicxulub impact, Cretaceous Period, dinosaurs, evolution, Field Museum, flowering plants, frogs, ichthyosaurs, intelligent design, Israel, Jordan, Jurassic Park, Lebanon, mammals, Mars rover, orchids, Paleogene, Palestine, Patagonia, Penn State, pterosaurs, roses, Science Advances, storytelling, Syria, Turkey, UC Santa Barbara, University of Bath, worms}

Chinks in the Chicxulub Story

_{David Coppedge
October 12, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 25, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Evolution News, Fossil Friday (series), monkeys, New World monkeys, Oligocene, Paleogene, Platyrrhini, Powerball, rafting monkeys, reptiles, seafaring, South America, storytelling}

Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?

_{Günter Bechly
August 25, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

5}

Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
February 3, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, Cretaceous Period, Darwinian theory, Early Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Late Paleocene, Myanmar, North America, Pakistan, Paleocene, Paleogene, paleontology, phylogenetics, Plesiadapiformes, primates, Thailand}

Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origins of Treeshrews (Scandentia) and Colugos (Dermoptera)

_{Günter Bechly
February 3, 2023

Evolution, Paleontology

59}

Even as a paleontologist I admit that calling this a real scientific discipline seems like an insult to sciences like physics or chemistry or molecular biology. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 13, 2023

Categories
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, __testing, Afrotheria, East Africa, Egypt, Fayum, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, George Gaylord Simpson, hyraxes, Paleogene, phylogenetics, scrotum, Tanzania}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Hyraxes and the Abrupt Origin of Hyracoidea

_{Günter Bechly
January 13, 2023

Paleontology, Science

15}

Of course, it is only we “nitpicking” intelligent design proponents who point out such incongruences. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 30, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Science
Tagged
, Africa, Afrotheria, Belgium, Egypt, elephant shrews, Eocene, Fayum, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, living fossils, Madagascar, mammals, Namibia, Paleogene, Pleistocene}

Fossil Friday: Fossil Elephant Shrews and the Abrupt Origin of Macroscelidea

_{Günter Bechly
December 30, 2022

Evolution, Paleontology, Science

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Elephant shrews are sometimes considered to be living fossils, and their origin is believed to go back 57.5 million years in the Paleocene. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, asteroid, bats, Canada, carnivores, Chicxulub impact, dinosaurs, Disney, Early Paleocene, elephants, Eocene, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, mammals, Montana, North America, paleoanthropology, Paleocene, Paleogene, Plesiadapiformes, primates, rodents, sirenians, Triceratops}

Fossil Friday: Purgatorius and the Abrupt Origin of Primates

_{Günter Bechly
December 9, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Primates not only appeared suddenly, but their different subgroups of lemurs, tarsier, and simians all appeared at about the same time. Read More ›