Tag: sediments

A 1940s style American kitchen, green. Generative AI

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Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Geology
Historical Sciences
Tagged
, Anthropocene, climate, earth, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eugene F. Stoermer, geological epochs, geologists, geology, history, Holocene Epoch, humankind, humans, International Commission on Stratigraphy, New York Yankees, Paul J. Crutzen, Quaternary Period, sediments, Stone Age, Ville Lähde}

As an Idea, the “Anthropocene” Era Is Dead

_{Science and Culture
November 25, 2025

Geology, Historical Sciences

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in a world where pundits regularly accuse us all of being too anthropocentric, the naming of a new geological epoch would enshrine that view forever in science. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
December 27, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Adrianus Kalmjin, ampullae of Lorenzini, chondrichthyans, chondrocranium, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great white shark, Illustra Media, intelligent design, jaws, Living Waters, mako shark, megalodon, Miocene, Morgan River, paleontology, Pliocene, sea floor, sediments, sharks, South Carolina, superpredators, tabloid journalists, teeth, vertebral column, vertebrates, whales}

#6 Story of 2022: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

_{Günter Bechly
December 27, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 26, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, Adrianus Kalmjin, ampullae of Lorenzini, chondrichthyans, chondrocranium, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great white shark, Illustra Media, intelligent design, jaws, Living Waters, mako shark, megalodon, Miocene, Morgan River, paleontology, Pliocene, sea floor, sediments, sharks, South Carolina, superpredators, tabloid journalists, teeth, vertebral column, vertebrates, whales}

Fossil Friday: Megalodon and Intelligent Design in Sharks

_{Günter Bechly
August 26, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Science

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Megalodon was a specialized apex predator and fed mainly on large baleen whales. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
September 16, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Australia, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran organisms, feeding traces, fossils, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Kimberichnus, motility, mucus, scratch marks, sediments, White Sea}

Kimberella — Locomotory Tracks

_{Günter Bechly
September 16, 2020

Evolution

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But what about tracks of the moving animal? There are indeed some fossils from the White Sea. Read More ›

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Date
September 1, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, amino acids, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, bacteria, biofilms, cable bacteria, carbon dioxide, electrical current, electricity, Elizabeth Pennisi, hydrogen, microbes, proteins, sediments, semiconductors, toxic wastes, University of Maryland, University of New South Wales, University of North Carolina}

Design Gets Down and Dirty — Complex Specified Information in Electric Mud

_{Science and Culture
September 1, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Bacteria that conduct electricity with cables may be involved in everything from cleansing the oceans and enriching the soil to guarding our own teeth. Read More ›