Category: Paleontology
Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record
The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity.
Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur
Different studies based on different data do not converge on one true tree of life.
Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again
Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans.
Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects
This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution.
Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids
History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis.