Tag: sudden appearance
Fossil Friday: Chitinozoa — Enigmatic Microfossils from the Paleozoic Era
We may now add the mysterious Chitinozoa to this ever-growing list of products of the burst of biological creativity in the Early Cambrian.
Fossil Friday: No, Magnetic Field Collapse Did Not Trigger the Emergence of Animals
This adds to the many points of fine-tuning that make Earth a privileged planet that can uniquely sustain life.
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.
Darwin’s Top 10 Arguments Against His Own Theory
In its youth the flat-fish is symmetrical with one eye on each side. However, as the body matures, one eye “begins to glide slowly round the head.”
Debunked Transitional Fossils Are the Tip of the Iceberg
Darwinian evolution predicts a gradually branching tree of living forms, with one form shading into another over long periods of evolution.