Tag: evolutionary biology
Fossil Friday: The Big Bang of Tertiary Birds and a Phylogenetic Mess
There was an abrupt origin, a burst of biological creativity, which is best explained by an infusion of new information from an intelligent agent.
Fossil Friday: New Evidence Against Dinosaur Ancestry of Birds
Few hypotheses in evolutionary biology have become as popular among lay people as the postulated ancestry of birds from bipedal dinosaurs.
Fossil Friday: Fossil Bird Tracks Expand the Temporal Paradox
The origin of birds involves a severe problem for Darwinists, which paleo-ornithologist Alan Feduccia has called a temporal paradox.
Fossil Friday: Is the Four-Legged Snake Tetrapodophis a Missing Link or Not?
There should have existed transitional forms, which exhibit at least some typical features of basal snake anatomy.
Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go
This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science.