Tag: Cambrian News
Another Complex Cambrian Animal Fossil Found in Greenland
The "whale of the Cambrian," a large filter-feeding anomalocarid, has been brought to science’s attention.
Not So Simple: Fruit Fly ENCODE Arrives
Unexpected complexity, what did you expect? Meanwhile, the transcriptome of another “simple organism,” the sea anemone, was studied by researchers. Guess what?
Explaining Life’s “Great Leap Forward”: Now It’s Nitrogen
Stephen Meyer likes to quote the characterization of a form of madness as “reasoning correctly from false premises.”
Here’s a Bubble That’s Ready to Burst: Oxygen as an Explanation for the Cambrian Explosion
The sheer number of new papers attributing the rise of Cambrian animals to oxygen is weird. Could it be chance that these are all coming out months after the release of Darwin’s Doubt?
Jerry Coyne Notwithstanding, as an "Explanation" for the Rise of Complex Animal Life, Oxygen Is Now Eliminated from the Running
There’s nothing about lower oxygen levels on Earth that would forbid the rise of early animals.