Tag: animal phyla
Fossil Friday: Chitinozoa — Enigmatic Microfossils from the Paleozoic Era
We may now add the mysterious Chitinozoa to this ever-growing list of products of the burst of biological creativity in the Early Cambrian.
Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies
This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla.
Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid
Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill.
The Positive Case for Intelligent Design in Paleontology
The dominant pattern in the fossil record is explosions of new biological forms. The Cambrian explosion is a prime example.
Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery” Is Not Alone: Gaps Everywhere!
There is clearly a pattern of discontinuities that requires an adequate explanation, and Darwinism is not it.