Author: Günter Bechly
Website: https://evolutionnews.org/author/gbechly
Fossil Friday: New Kind of Silverfish Trapped in Sticky Resin
These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy.
Fossil Friday: A Dead “Living Fossil”
Coelacanths are considered to be “living fossils,” which do not sit well with Darwinian assumptions.
Fossil Friday: Whip Spider from the Lower Cretaceous
These fossiliferous limestones are about 115 million years old. In spite of this age the animal is not primitive in any way.
Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin
Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory.
Fossil Friday: Large Constrictor Snake from the Eocene
The fossils from this locality have to be transferred (re-embedded) into artificial resin to be preserved.