Author: Günter Bechly
Website: https://evolutionnews.org/author/gbechly
Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor
Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders.
Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike
An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions.
Fossil Friday: Treehopper Nymph in Dominican Amber and the Miracle of Mimicry
The miracle of mimicry, for which there are countless examples in the animal kingdom, represents powerful evidence for design in nature.
Fossil Friday: Dickinsonia, the Ediacaran Animal that Wasn’t
Gregory Retallack is a kind of maverick paleontologist, who endorses a fringe hypothesis that Ediacaran organisms were not marine but terrestrial lichens.
Fossil Friday: Unknown Cicada from the Cretaceous
Only the infusion of new information from outside the system can explain these bursts of biological creativity.