“Lophophorates are a collection of sea creatures with a murky past.”
Cambrian explosion
Researchers: Ediacaran explosion? There were complex ecosystems before the Cambrian
One can claim that the Cambrian explosion was nothing new only at the risk of shortening the time to establish complex ecologies, which should begin to create doubt about random processes in an active mind.
Stasis: Mating behavior unchanged from Cambrian era
Researcher: And it provides strong evidence to suggest that a Limulus, or horseshoe crab-like behavior, already existed in the Cambrian completely by convergence. So, it really helps us to get a sense of how these animals were actually living millions of years ago.”
At Evolution News: Silence around Cambrian Brains
This was bound to come up eventually: First, notice the quote marks around “Cambrian explosion,” a subtle hint that the term is controversial. It’s not. They state clearly that it is “marked by the appearance of most major animal phyla.” Panarthropoda is a taxon that combines arthropods with tardigrades and onycophorans. The sentence means that Read More…
Researchers: The development of Earth’s inner core coincided with the Cambrian Explosion
Sounds like a rollout, really.
Those awful comb jellies betray the Darwinians again: They were even more complex than feared, starting at maybe 635 million years ago
They’re said to have appeared between 634 and 604 million years ago (Peterson and Butterfield, 2005) and figure in the Cambrian Explosion. Darwinians have been trying to Cancel the Cambrian Explosion since practically forever but it keeps coming back into the fact base.
Key groups of Cambrian creatures tolerated stressful shallow water environment, researchers say
So these animals not only got started in a short period of time but were sophisticated enough to tolerate a stressful environment? The Cambrian gets more remarkable every time we dig into it.
Can the Cambrian Explosion be explained away by the earlier Ediacaran Explosion?
David Klinghoffer: Lukas Ruegger is the personable new intelligent design “explainer” whose videos take an approach similar to Khan Academy’s. The latter’s offering on evolution is replete with junk science, as Casey Luskin has detailed. Ruegger’s treatment of the subject is much better, and I appreciate his clarity and brevity.
At ID The Future: Debunked transitional fossils with Gunter Bechly
Bechly and Luskin also discuss fossil forgeries, how to tell real from fake fossils, and four explosions of morphological novelty in the history of life.
Did giant mountain ranges provide nutrients in early Earth’s history?
According to the new thesis, the erosion of mountains provided nutrients that were hitherto unavailable, that helped life forms get started. Sounds like a rollout, actually.
Jonathan Wells on the fossil record as a problem, not a solution, for evolution theories
Where the needed transitional fossils are missing that matters most is researchers’ laco of willingness to be honest about what their absence means.
Did glaciers cause a billion-year gap in information about the development of life?
At Vice: This giant lapse in Earth’s memory exceeds one billion years in some places, resulting in 550 million-year-old rocks sitting atop ancient layers that date back 1.7 billion years, with no trace of the many lost epochs in between…
Cambrian Explosion appears even more explosive now
The strongest argument for Darwinism today is that it is believed by all the right people.
Bryozoa add to Cambrian Explosion’s impact: 35 million years earlier than thought
So they are complex and that much closer to the dawn of life. At ENST: In Nature News and Views, Andrej Ernst and Mark A. Wilson write, “Bryozoan fossils found at last in deposits from the Cambrian period.” They had been “conspicuously absent” till now.
At Nature: The Cambrian Explosion just got more Bang
Researchers: This aligns the origin of phylum Bryozoa with all other skeletonized phyla in Cambrian Age 3, pushing back its first occurrence by approximately 35 million years.