Tag: pterosaurs

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 28, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, bats, BBC News, birds, Boeing 747, Current Biology, fossils, gigantism, Günter Bechly, magic, mutations, Neil Thomas, Origin, paleontologists, pterosaurs, Scleromochlus, selection, The Conversation, University of Edinburgh, University of Leicester, University of Portsmouth}

Magical Thinking: Can Pterosaurs Be Darwinized?

_{David Coppedge
January 28, 2025

Evolution, Paleontology

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Neil Thomas has written about “Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking” and there is no shortage of examples in the literature on fossils. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
January 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, birds, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, dinosaurs, Dromaeosauridae, Fossil Friday (series), intelligent design, John Ray, mammals, physiology, pterosaurs, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Wyoming}

Fossil Friday: A Scientific Controversy About Warm-Blooded Animals

_{Günter Bechly
January 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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How do popularizers of Darwinism such as Richard Dawkins react? Unsurprisingly, they just ignore the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 20, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, China, Darwinian theory, evolution, fleas, forewings, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, holometabolan insects, insects, intelligent design, Middle Jurassic, mouthparts, parasites, pincers, pterosaurs, wings}

Fossil Friday: Nakridletia — The Rise and Fall (and Possible Resurrection) of a Fossil Insect Order

_{Günter Bechly
December 20, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Paleontology

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So, were strashilids a distinct order of parasitic insects or just aquatic flies? 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
September 15, 2023

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, Argentina, Bill Nye, Brazil, cladogram, common ancestry, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, David Attenborough, flying reptiles, Greenland, Popular Science, pterosaurs, Scleromochlus, Scotland, Triassic period, Wikipedia}

Fossil Friday: Venetoraptor Is Not the Archaeopteryx of Pterosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
September 15, 2023

Anatomy, Evolution, Paleontology

20}

Forget all the pop science ballyhoo, and if you should not trust my word, just check the provided primary sources. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
May 19, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Paleontology
Tagged
, Cambrian Explosion, Central Asia, Crurotarsi, dinosaurs, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, genetic code, intelligent design, legs, Mammaliaformes, Pappochelys, Peter Ward, Preondactylus, pterosaurs, search engines, Simon Conway Morris, teleology, tetrapods, turtles, wings}

Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic

_{Günter Bechly
May 19, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics, Paleontology

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Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
July 15, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Brazil, Cambrian Explosion, Crato Formation, crocodiles, Crurotarsi, Darwin critics, Darwinists, dinosaurs, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), holotype, ichthyosaur, intelligent design, lizards, Lower Cretaceous, Mammaliaformes, mammals, Nature Communications, Peter Ward, pterosaurs, turtles, Upper Triassic}

Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous

_{Günter Bechly
July 15, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 9, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, abrupt appearance, Archaeopteryx, Bavaria, body plans, Darwinian theory, evolution, fossil record, Germany, gradual development, intelligent design, Late Triassic, museums, nests, predictions, pterosaurs, sea floor, transitional fossils}

Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin

_{Günter Bechly
June 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory. Read More ›