Tag: Fossil Friday
Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?
Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling.
Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils
Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions.
Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion
Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine “Big Bang” of life.
Fossil Friday: Another Prediction Vindicated
The virtual ink for my article had hardly dried when a story about a new discovery hit the news.
Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace
In modern paleontology it is still a very common phenomenon that fossils are over-interpreted by the scientists and over-hyped in the media.