Tag: Lower Cretaceous
Fossil Friday: New Study Confirms Discontinuities in the History of Plants
I have elaborated on the sudden appearance of flowering plants in the Lower Cretaceous, which was called an “abominable mystery” by Charles Darwin.
Fossil Friday: A Waiting Time Problem for Feathers
Wherever you look in the history of life you stumble upon overwhelming evidence for design.
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: Flowering Plants — Darwin’s Abominable Mystery
Flowering plants or angiosperms appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Lower Cretaceous (about 130 million years ago).