
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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Namacalathus Revisited — Not Much to See

Resurrecting Namacalathus as an Ediacaran Animal

A Paleontologist Buries Another Proposed Cambrian Precursor

#2 Story of 2020: Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis

Kimberella Is No Solution to the Cambrian Conundrum

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis, Continued

Kimberella and Controversial Relationships — A Chronological Synopsis

Kimberella — The Oldest Radula (Not)

Kimberella — Locomotory Tracks

Kimberella — Traces and a Trace-maker

Kimberella — Controversial Scratch Marks

Günter Bechly: Still More Evidence Against Darwinian Gradualism

Günter Bechly Says Goodbye to Darwinian Gradualism
Günter Bechly on the Latest Fossil Find Confusing the Human “Evolutionary Tree”
Günter Bechly: Human Evolution’s Once ‘Indisputable Facts’ Now “Dead Theory”

Günter Bechly: Rich Fossil Record Says No to Insect Evolution

Living Fossils Really Do Live — and Pose Problems for Evolution
