Tag: holotype
Fossil Friday: The Complex Wing Folding of Earwigs
This highly complex mode of wing folding is one of the many examples of engineering marvels in insects that strongly suggest intelligent design.
Fossil Friday: Ludodactylus and the Origin of Pterosaurs
Outside of Darwinian fantasy land, we lack any transitional fossils to document an assumed gradual evolutionary development of characteristic pterosaur wings.
Fossil Friday: Moniopterus — Snake, Beetle, or Mollusk?
Scientists are only humans and many of them see what they want to see. Fossils often leave a lot of room for wild imagination and wishful thinking.
Fossil Friday: A Croc Smile from the Cretaceous
Ubiquitous discontinuities contradict the gradualist predictions of Darwin’s theory and thus should count as empirical falsifications of that theory.
Evolutionary Imagination and Belief Drive False Claims of a “Four-Legged Whale”
Perhaps this organism had four legs. Perhaps it had flippers. Perhaps it was closely related to whales. Perhaps it has nothing to do with whales.