Category: Paleontology
Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang
The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.”
Fossil Friday: Ediacaran Animal Embryos Put to Test and Put to Rest
There are no fossil animals in the Ediacaran, when they should be found according to the gradualistic predictions of Darwinian evolution.
Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again
This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute.
Fossil Friday: No, Magnetic Field Collapse Did Not Trigger the Emergence of Animals
This adds to the many points of fine-tuning that make Earth a privileged planet that can uniquely sustain life.
Fossil Friday: Zygaenid Moths — Molecular Clock vs Fossil Record
The ubiquitous mismatch between molecular clocks and the fossil record clearly represents data to be explained.