kinorhyncha Type post Author Günter Bechly Date May 3, 2024 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , arthropods, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, Early Cambrian, Ediacaran Period, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, marine invertebrates, Middle Cambrian, mud dragons, paleontology, phylogenetic analysis, South China, tardigrades, velvet worms Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion Günter Bechly May 3, 2024 Evolution, Paleontology 8 The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex. Read More ›
Cambrian Bryozoa Type post Author Günter Bechly Date November 24, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , bilaterians, body plans, Bryozoa, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, chordates, evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, green algae, invertebrates, Lower Cambrian, metazoans, microCT, molecular clock studies, moss animals, Nevada, Ohio, paleontology, South China, tentacles Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go Günter Bechly November 24, 2023 Evolution, Paleontology 10 This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Read More ›
Cambrian_jellyfish Type post Author Günter Bechly Date September 22, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , abrupt appearance, bilaterian animals, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cnidaria, crown group, ctenophores, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, history of life, jellyfish, life cycle, Lower Cambrian, neo-Darwinian model, polyp, precambrian fossils, South China, sponges, tentacles, umbrella, Utah Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion Günter Bechly September 22, 2023 Evolution, Paleontology 3 Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect. Read More ›
Megasiphon thylakos Type post Author Günter Bechly Date August 4, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , body plans, Cambrian Explosion, Chordata, evolution, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, humans, lancelets, Maotianshan Shales, Metaspriggina, phyla, preservation, sampling bias, Science (journal), sea squirts, South China, tunicates, Utah, vertebrates Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion Günter Bechly August 4, 2023 Evolution, Paleontology 4 Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine "Big Bang" of life. Read More ›
