Tag: Cnidaria
#2 Story of 2020: Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum
None of the Cambrian animal phyla is represented in the Ediacaran fossil record.
Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum
The fossil record speaks clearly and cries out loud: the history of life on Earth is a history of saltations.
Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis, Continued
One researchers has preferred to classify Kimberella among the Ediacaran “fossil problematica.”
Design in the First Animals
Scientists debate whether ctenophores are the earliest animals to appear in the Cambrian explosion. If so, they arrived with multiple tissues, a nervous system, and a digestive system.
News from the Ediacaran and Cambrian
The Cambrian explosion remains one of the severest evidential challenges to Darwinian evolution.