Tag: Carboniferous Period
Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid
Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill.
Fossil Friday: Dragonfly from the Upper Jurassic
Almost everything in the wonderful construction of dragonflies cries out for a design explanation.
Grandeur in Extinctions?
New corollary to an old law: Put Darwinian assumptions in, and you will get Darwinian models out.
The Role of Lignin for Fire, Explained
Without lignin, there would be no woody plants, no wood, no coal, no charcoal, no fire, no pottery, and certainly no iron or metallurgy.
Why Do We Not Spontaneously Combust?
James Lovelock has pointed out that atmospheric levels of oxygen much above about 25 percent, let alone 30 percent, would cause raging conflagrations today.