Category: Paleontology
Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust
There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down.
Fossil Friday: Ichthyosaur Birth, Another Evolutionist Just-So Story Falls Apart
This is not how good science is supposed to work but is rather typical for pseudoscience that shields itself against empirical falsification.
Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall
I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons.
Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion
Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect.
Fact Check: No, Two Teens Did NOT “Accidentally Solve” Darwin’s Dilemma
“It looked like a fern. But as a budding geologist, [UK teenager Tina] Negus knew these 600 million year old rocks were too old to host such a plant.”