Paleontology

Keys to rapid rock formation

The idea of ‘punctuated equilibrium’ constitutes an admission of a lack of an observed biological mechanism for producing abrupt appearance.

A whale of a tale?

Deluge disaster: Amazing Australian plesiosaur preservation

Dead whales: telling tales?

Buried birth

The clock in the rock

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Fish that ‘fly’

Fossils—do they get more complex? Another evolutionary idea rattled by research.

Tarawera’s night of terror

To make a tail for a whale

In Huancavelica province, Peru, paleontologist Arturo Vildozola found distinctive boulders described by some as giant fossil oysters, by others as concretions.

Death March Horseshoe Crab stopped dead in its tracks by Tas Walker This fossil Horseshoe Crab (Mesolimulus walchi) in limestone is exceptionally well preserved (picture viewable in Creation).