Tag: cephalopods
Fossil Friday: The Stubborn Mystery of the Tully Monster
How much confidence should we really place in dubious fossil evidence when it is boldly claimed to prove Darwinian evolution as a fact?
Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes: Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere
“Evolution of novel genes”? Isn’t that the question at hand? Where do novel genes come from?
Dave Farina Criticizes Intelligent Design but Doesn’t Understand It
Boom! There goes the “exquisitely documented” evolution of turtles. Sorry, Professor Dave.
Fossil Friday: Nectocaris, the Impossible Squid
Paleontology sometimes seems like a kind of imaginative Rorschach test with the flattened fauna of roadkill.
Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor
Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders.