Tag: Cambrian Explosion
Bringing Past Articles Current to 2020: Butterflies, Hummingbirds, More
Here are items reported in 2019 that have made news in 2020: more on butterflies, hummingbirds, and the Cambrian explosion.
Did Cloudinids Have the Guts to Be Worms?
I promised last year to follow up on more alleged Ediacaran animals. Now is a good moment to come back to this, with a new study having just been published in the journal Nature Communications.
Mars Bugs and Intelligent Design — On a Collision Course?
I picture Ohio University officials turning as red as Mars over Professor Romoser’s exotic claims.
Paleontologist Günter Bechly: What We Mean by the Missing Transitional Fossil Forms
Certainly, we find organisms that are “morphologically intermediate,” bearing resemblances to organisms that came before and others that came later.
Butterfly Wing Pattern Diversification by Non-Darwinian Mechanisms
In butterfly “evolution,” new findings show mechanisms at work other than random mutation and natural selection.