Tag: fossil record
Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds
Darwinists may have to say goodbye to some cherished assumed transitional forms and the evolutionary just-so stories built upon them.
Notes on the Mysterious Origin of Hippos
The family Hippopotamidae appears abruptly in the fossil record — like all the other groups that I have so far investigated in detail.
Fossil Friday: Direct Fossil Ancestors of Living Species?
Willi Hennig, the founder of phylogenetic systematics (cladistics), recognized that finding and demonstrating direct ancestors would be a very hard task.
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.
How the Caterpillar Got Its Legs…Or Not
Almost 400 years after its discovery, the process of metamorphosis is still a thorny conundrum for evolutionary biologists.