Tag: pterosaurs
Chinks in the Chicxulub Story
If an asteroid impact wiped out the dinosaurs as believed by the scientific consensus, its effects on evolution seem strained and inconsistent.
Fossil Friday: Venetoraptor Is Not the Archaeopteryx of Pterosaurs
Forget all the pop science ballyhoo, and if you should not trust my word, just check the provided primary sources.
Fossil Friday: The Explosive Origin of Flying Reptiles in the Mid Triassic
Personally, I am quite sympathetic to the dissenting view of my paleontologist colleague Simon Conway Morris.
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.
Rare Fossil Preserves a Moment of Deadly Battle — And Recalls a Problem for Darwin
Pterosaurs appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Late Triassic, which agrees with the predictions of intelligent design theory.