
Günter Bechly is a German paleo-entomologist who specializes in the fossil history and systematics of insects (esp. dragonflies), the most diverse group of animals. He served as curator for amber and fossil insects in the department of paleontology at the State Museum of Natural History (SMNS) in Stuttgart, Germany. He is also a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Dr. Bechly earned his Ph.D. in geosciences from Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen, Germany.
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Chameleon Vision — A Unique Marvel of Design

Fossil Friday: Venetoraptor Is Not the Archaeopteryx of Pterosaurs

Fossil Friday: Study Debunks Textbook Wisdom on the Evolution of Mammalian Gait

Fossil Friday: Seventy Years of Textbook Wisdom on Origin of Multicellular Life Turns Out to Be Wrong

Fossil Friday: Did Monkeys Raft Four Times Across the Atlantic?

Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils

Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?

Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion

On the BBC, a New Openness to Teleology in Biology?

Fossil Friday: Another Prediction Vindicated

Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace

Fossil Friday: Cloudina Still Lacks the Guts to Be a Worm

Fossil Friday: Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive

William Shatner and Our Privileged Planet

Fossil Friday: Homo rudolfensis, Another Contentious Homo

Fossil Friday: To Be or Not to Be Homo

Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud

Fossil Friday: The Gupta Scandal
