Tag: living fossils
Fossil Friday: A Dead “Living Fossil”
Coelacanths are considered to be “living fossils,” which do not sit well with Darwinian assumptions.
Abstract: Lönnig on Darwin’s “Abominable Mystery”
All orders and families of the angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record (the same for most lower systematic categories).
“Living Fossil”? Maybe. Tuatara Genome Is Now Sequenced and Published
The tuatara genome is 5GB, making it enormous relative to other vertebrates — and full of surprises.
Living Fossils, Ancient Oxygen, Colorful Snapdragons: Anomalies Challenge Darwin’s Story
Enough anomalies can wreck a paradigm.