Tag: Early Cretaceous
No. 4 Story of 2024: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Again
This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute.
Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again
This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute.
Fossil Friday: Hagfish and Lampreys Overturn Scenarios of Vertebrate Phylogeny and Evolution
Their fossil record as well as their incongruent pattern of anatomical similarities is better explained by intelligent design.
Fossil Friday: The Abrupt Origin of Butterflies
This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla.
Fossil Friday: A Strange Dragonfly Larva
In a monograph in 2007, I suggested that these larvae may not be genuine dragonflies of the suborder Anisoptera.