Günter Bechly

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Fossil Friday: Update on the Dubious Nature of the Precambrian Gabonionta

_{Günter Bechly
September 20, 2024}

What we definitely do not find here is any credible evidence for an evolutionary transition to genuine multicellular eukaryotes.

Fossil Friday: More Evidence That “Feathered Dinosaurs” Were Secondarily Flightless Birds

_{Günter Bechly
September 13, 2024}

It definitely looks like the common dino-to-bird narrative has been massively oversold to the public.

Fossil Friday: Sea Scorpions Defy Darwinian Expectations

_{Günter Bechly
September 6, 2024}

Wait, what? That's it? Mere speculation based on the fact that they found nothing!

Fossil Friday: The Sudden Appearance of Crocs in the Triassic Fossil Record

_{Günter Bechly
August 30, 2024}

The Triassic period proves to be a real carpet bombing of bursts of biological creativity.

Fossil Friday: The Mystery of the Frankenstein Dinosaur

_{Günter Bechly
August 23, 2024}

Different studies based on different data do not converge on one true tree of life.

Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again

_{Günter Bechly
August 16, 2024}

Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans.

Fossil Friday: The Carboniferous Explosion of Winged Insects

_{Günter Bechly
August 9, 2024}

This represents just one of the many discontinuities in the history of life that strongly contradict the predictions from a neo-Darwinian theory of evolution.

Fossil Friday: Controversial Gradualism in Tyrannosaurids

_{Günter Bechly
August 2, 2024}

History will tell who is right in this scientific controversy, but personally I am more convinced by the evidence against anagenesis.

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Explosion Bingo Continues

_{Günter Bechly
July 26, 2024}

What if scientists were to discover next month that there was no oxygenation in the Cambrian but the exact opposite?

Fossil Friday: Saber-Toothed Tigers Originated Multiple Times

_{Günter Bechly
July 19, 2024}

No explanations offered, but no intelligence allowed either. Maybe scientists should stop shutting their eyes and ears to what nature wants to tell them.

Fossil Friday: Cambrian Fossils Turned Upside Down Yet Again

_{Günter Bechly
July 12, 2024}

Most of these reconstructions are based on very weak evidence and are highly speculative.

Fossil Friday: Time Wanderers Debunk Popular Scenario of Mammalian Evolution

_{Günter Bechly
July 5, 2024}

The crude Darwinist presumption of more advanced descendants outcompeting their primitive ancestors turned out to be wrong once again.

Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang

_{Günter Bechly
June 28, 2024}

The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.”

Fossil Friday: Ediacaran Animal Embryos Put to Test and Put to Rest

_{Günter Bechly
June 21, 2024}

There are no fossil animals in the Ediacaran, when they should be found according to the gradualistic predictions of Darwinian evolution.

Fossil Friday: Darwin’s Abominable Mystery Corroborated Once Again

_{Günter Bechly
June 14, 2024}

This notorious discontinuity in the fossil record did not get any smaller with 160 years of research since Darwin, but instead became more and more acute.

Fossil Friday: No, Magnetic Field Collapse Did Not Trigger the Emergence of Animals

_{Günter Bechly
June 7, 2024}

This adds to the many points of fine-tuning that make Earth a privileged planet that can uniquely sustain life.

Fossil Friday: Zygaenid Moths — Molecular Clock vs Fossil Record

_{Günter Bechly
May 31, 2024}

The ubiquitous mismatch between molecular clocks and the fossil record clearly represents data to be explained.

Fossil Friday: Did Giant Dinosaurs Swim Across Oceans?

_{Günter Bechly
May 24, 2024}

More rafting animals! Who cares about probability or empirical evidence, when a simple just-so-story can do the job?

Fossil Friday: Three Modern Scientific Challenges to the Causal Adequacy of Darwinian Explanations

_{Günter Bechly
May 17, 2024}

As a consequence of the collapsing tree problem, I suggest abandoning evolutionary classifications and return to a pre-Darwinian Linnaean classification.

Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism

_{Günter Bechly
May 10, 2024}

The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events.