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Organizations with the word “Family” in their name are invariably fundamentalists and creationists (with the possible exception of “Family Planning”), and OneNewsNow, the website of the “American Family News Network,” is a case in point as they react to the news of the “Ida” fossil by consulting Ken Ham, leader ...
Answers In Genesis, Creationism, paleontology, transitional fossil, Science, Evolution
Among the geeks at ScienceBlogs, there’s a lot of debate about the appropriateness of the splashy media campaign to promote the “Ida” fossil; the NYT Opinionator blog has a round-up of the comments (and a nod to LGF for our Rush Limbaugh post): Let’s Not Go Ape Over Ida. I ...
Evolution, Science, transitional fossil, paleontology, Creationism, Rush Limbaugh
The question has come up several times, in our threads related to evolution, whether Rush Limbaugh is a creationist. I searched for definitive statements because I was curious where he stood, but was never able to really pin it down. Well, today he pretty much settled the matter, with a ...
Evolution, Science, transitional fossil, paleontology, Creationism, Rush Limbaugh
As we noted last week, an international team of scientists has unveiled a landmark discovery: an amazingly well-preserved 47-million year old fossil found in Germany that could be the common ancestor of all monkeys, apes, and human beings. This team has put together an excellent website with articles, photos, and ...
Next week at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, an international team of scientists will unveil a complete, 47-million year old fossil found in Germany that may be one of the most important anthropological discoveries ever made: a primate creature that could be the common ancestor of all ...
An amazing discovery in Canada, after a team of paleontologists ran out of gas: Arctic fossil points to missing link between seals and land mammals. The fossil remains of a flipper-free mammal related to modern seals have been discovered in Nunavut by Ottawa researchers who stumbled upon them after ...
Another transitional fossil—an intermediate species that shares characteristics with two distinct groups of animals—has been discovered in Argentina: an omnivorous dinosaur. BUENOS AIRES (AFP) — Scientists have found fossil remains of an omnivorous dinosaur in Argentina — a missing link to the carnivores, a researcher said Monday. “It is ...
Evolution, Science, transitional fossil, Dinosaurs, Argentina
One of the enduring falsehoods repeated endlessly by anti-evolution fanatics is that there are no “transitional fossils” — intermediate species that share characteristics with two distinct groups of animals. Here’s a good article at LiveScience on the many examples of transitional fossils that have already been discovered: Fossils Reveal Truth ...
Evolution, Science, Natural Selection, charles darwin, transitional fossil
We’ve had several posts recently about the fossil fish discovered by Neil Shubin’s team and dubbed Tiktaalik; it’s one of the best examples yet of a “transitional” species of marine vertebrate evolving into a land animal. After extensive cleaning of the fossil, new research has revealed interesting details of the ...
While researching a dissertation on the diversity of teleosts (a group of fish species that includes flounder and other flatfish), University of Chicago grad student Matt Friedman discovered some excellent examples of “transitional” fossils—fossils that show one species evolving into another. Carl Zimmer has a good article on Friedman’s findings: ...