Paleontology

A fossil claimed to be ancestral to seals looks just like an otter.

There’s a lesson from this magnificently-camouflaged little critter, for those who can see it.

How are all those nicely presented evolutionary trees put together? Do they really demonstrate evolution?

Long familiar to keen gardeners, horsetails are ‘living fossils’, unchanged from their supposedly ‘prehistoric’ ancestors.

A living Shovelnose Ray is almost identical to a ‘dinosaur era’ fossil ray, a living fossil, challenging both evolution and geological time.

More confusion and contradiction in the evolutionary story about the fossils.

Why do ‘living fossils’ and functions in ‘junk DNA’ present problems for evolution?

How to answer questions about evolution: whether for course credit or to clear up misconceptions about fossils

Tetrapod footprints found in Poland predate the famous fossil sea-to-land evolutionary sequence that includes Tiktaalik roseae

Yes and no!

Fossils of many animals and plants living today are found in dinosaur-era strata, displaying stasis, contrary to evolutionary expectations.

Unfortunately, the average person is still conditioned into thinking ‘millions of years’ when considering how rocks and fossils form. But as we’ve said many times with many examples—given the right conditions, rocks and fossils will form in a very short time.

How is an old fossil shrimp important for unraveling evolution if it closely resembles modern shrimp?

A review of Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin

Is there any fossil evidence that dinosaur and modern mammals lived together?

Another insurmountable hurdle for evolution.