Tag: Crato Formation
Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms Discontinuities in the History of Plants
I have elaborated on the sudden appearance of flowering plants in the Lower Cretaceous, which was called an “abominable mystery” by Charles Darwin.
Fossil Friday: The Complex Wing Folding of Earwigs
This highly complex mode of wing folding is one of the many examples of engineering marvels in insects that strongly suggest intelligent design.
Fossil Friday: Ludodactylus and the Origin of Pterosaurs
Outside of Darwinian fantasy land, we lack any transitional fossils to document an assumed gradual evolutionary development of characteristic pterosaur wings.
Fossil Friday: A Fossil Butterfly Lookalike
An intelligent design paradigm can easily accommodate convergences as a natural consequence of a designer reusing the same ideas in different constructions.
Fossil Friday: Unknown Cicada from the Cretaceous
Only the infusion of new information from outside the system can explain these bursts of biological creativity.