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Photo credit: Gaorong Li, via EurekAlert!, https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/1124309.

At Long Last, Have New Fossil Finds Solved the Cambrian Enigma?

New fossil discoveries from China are being hailed as evidence that could reshape our understanding of the origin of complex animal life. Read More ›
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Image credit: Xiaodong Wang, via EurekAlert!, https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/1124308.

More Challenges to Ediacaran Animal Fossils

Joseph Botting is actually very skeptical of the paper’s purported example of an Ediacaran ctenophore, and he believes it is in fact a cnidarian. Read More ›
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Photo: Aulacopleura koninckii, by Zavadluk, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ancient Eyes, Modern Design: The Remarkable Vision of Trilobites

Does this discovery suggest that the principles of compound vision emerged nearly half a billion years ago as the authors concluded? Read More ›
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Photo credit: James St. John, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Read More ›
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Photo: Trilobite Redlichia, Cambrian of China, Dlloyd via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?

The deniers of the well-established scientific consensus rest their argument on the recent publications of a few maverick paleontologists. Read More ›
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Photo: Megasiphon thylakos holotype, after Fig. 2 in Nanglu et al. 2023, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion

Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine "Big Bang" of life. Read More ›

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