Günter Bechly

_{Senior Fellow, Center for Science and Culture}

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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Fossil Friday: Jellyfish Body Plan and Life Cycle Originated in the Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
September 22, 2023}

Remarkably, these animals can be placed within the crown group of the living cnidarian clade Medusozoa, which is not exactly what Darwinists should expect.

Chameleon Vision — A Unique Marvel of Design

_{Günter Bechly
September 20, 2023}

A few days ago, my kids and I visited the wonderful tropical aquarium and zoo Haus des Meeres (House of the Sea) in Vienna.

Fossil Friday: Venetoraptor Is Not the Archaeopteryx of Pterosaurs

_{Günter Bechly
September 15, 2023}

Forget all the pop science ballyhoo, and if you should not trust my word, just check the provided primary sources.

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

_{Günter Bechly
September 8, 2023}

In other words: evolutionists make up fancy just-so stories that do not stand up to scrutiny when they are checked with actual empirical data.

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

_{Günter Bechly
September 1, 2023}

Incidentally, a few days ago I received a message from my paleobiologist colleague Dr. Ken Towe, a retired senior scientist at the Smithsonian Institution.

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

_{Günter Bechly
August 25, 2023}

Time is not the hero of the plot when actual improbabilities and probabilistic resources are ignored or glossed over with fancy storytelling.

Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
August 18, 2023}

Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions.

Fossil Friday: Did the Cambrian Explosion Really Happen?

_{Günter Bechly
August 11, 2023}

The deniers of the well-established scientific consensus rest their argument on the recent publications of a few maverick paleontologists.

Fossil Friday: Fossil Tunicate Confirms Cambrian Explosion

_{Günter Bechly
August 4, 2023}

Almost on a monthly basis new fossil evidence corroborates the abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion as a genuine "Big Bang" of life.

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

_{Günter Bechly
August 2, 2023}

Dr. Richard Buggs is a plant biologist and professor of evolutionary genomics at Queen Mary, University of London.

Fossil Friday: Another Prediction Vindicated

_{Günter Bechly
July 28, 2023}

The virtual ink for my article had hardly dried when a story about a new discovery hit the news.

Fossil Friday: Eozoön, the Dawn Animal Fallen from Grace

_{Günter Bechly
July 21, 2023}

In modern paleontology it is still a very common phenomenon that fossils are over-interpreted by the scientists and over-hyped in the media.

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

_{Günter Bechly
July 14, 2023}

We intelligent design proponents make one successful prediction after another, while Darwinism's track record of failed predictions grows ever longer.

Fossil Friday: Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive

_{Günter Bechly
July 7, 2023}

The scientists revisited the site and discovered that the assumed Ediacaran fossils are neither of Ediacaran age nor represent fossils at all.

William Shatner and Our Privileged Planet

_{Günter Bechly
July 5, 2023}

Shatner‘s revelation may be interpreted as an environmentalist creed, but I rather see it as a poetical formulation of the fine-tuning of Earth for life.

Fossil Friday: Homo rudolfensis, Another Contentious Homo

_{Günter Bechly
June 30, 2023}

Considering the checkered history of grandiose claims and controversies in paleoanthropology, some caution may be wise.

Fossil Friday: To Be or Not to Be Homo

_{Günter Bechly
June 23, 2023}

The fossil hominin Homo habilis was described 1964 by Louis Leakey and his colleagues from the 1.9 million year old Olduvai Gorge locality in Tanzania.

Fossil Friday: The Supposed Oldest Cheetah Was Yet Another Fraud

_{Günter Bechly
June 16, 2023}

Even before the publication, the Chinese scientists Deng Tao and Qiu Zhanxiang had revealed the skull to be a crude forgery.

Fossil Friday: The Gupta Scandal

_{Günter Bechly
June 9, 2023}

The greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century is not so well known outside of professional paleontologist circles.

Fossil Friday: How an Austrian Scientist Concocted a New Domain of Life called Gabonionta

_{Günter Bechly
June 2, 2023}

Is there any other evidence that this sensational discovery was nothing but hype? Sure there is.