Tag: fossil record
Fossil Friday: Kinorhyncha, Yet Another Animal Body Plan from the Cambrian Explosion
The earliest kinorhynchs were more complex than modern ones. So much for the evolutionary narrative from simple to complex.
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.