Category: Paleontology
Fossil Friday: Evolutionary Stasis in Beetles
Natural selection is the great magician in evolutionary fantasy land, where it explains rapid change in explosive radiations as well as no change at all.
Fossil Friday: New Fossil Stem Bird Is Surprisingly Modern
Why do we mostly hear only one side of the story in the media? I suppose we must be protected from dangerous questions that could come up.
Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved
All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology.
Fossil Friday: An Ediacaran Animal with a Question Mark
To claim that such undefinable blobs in sandstone represent fossils of the oldest motile animals is massively overselling the evidence to say the least.
Fossil Friday: New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution
This would have been very interesting news to my friend and colleague Jonathan Wells, who had described many such cases in his ground-breaking books.