Tag: flowering plants
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.
Chinks in the Chicxulub Story
If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent.
Plant Evolution: All Gaps and Miracles
A major study looks for evolution, but finds huge disparities, stasis, gaps, periodic explosions, and miracles of emergence held together with imagination.
Fossil Friday: Is Triassic Angiosperm-Like Pollen a Solution to Darwin’s Abominable Mystery?
There is one remaining issue to address, which is palynology, the science of fossil pollen.
Fossil Friday: Florigerminis, Another Failed Candidate for a Jurassic Flowering Plant
You are in good company if you are as skeptical about these claims as I am myself.
