Okay, so we were just talking about a Big Bang of birds.
Some speak of a Big Bang of mammals (“These new findings call for a re-evaluation of the evolutionary story of placental mammals,” says Anne Yoder, an evolutionary biologist at Duke University, who wasn’t involved in the work.”) and flowers (“Turns out, these bloomers went through an evolutionary “Big Bang” of sorts some 130 million years ago, a brief era of explosive floral diversification at a time when dinosaurs walked the Earth.”)
So, we looked for a Big Bang of turtles, but … naw, not turtles.
But wait! Someone suggested, no one would believe that about turtles, so they wouldn’t have used the phrase. Just for luck, try “rapid evolution” instead.
And guess what? From Sea Turtle World:
It is believed that the evolution process for sea turtles took place very rapidly instead of slowly over a long period of time. This suggests to researchers that there were some significant changes that took place on Earth. Perhaps the same one that caused so many other animals in the world to either evolve or to become extinct.
See also, on the same find: Modern birds radiated before dinosaur extinction? (Researchers: Contrary to assumptions, our new work suggests that birds began to radiate before this massive extinction.)
The Founding Feathers? Researchers: The common ancestor of today’s birds probably lived much later than formerly thought.
and
Talk to the fossils: Let’s see what they say back
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as to ‘glowing sea turtle’, here are a few related notes on Glowing deep sea life:
Happy as a clam? I bet this clam is a little happier than others 🙂
It suits yec creationism that creatures exploded in diversity soon after the flood. Indeed “speciation’ is more likely a result of healthy environments with little competition as opposed to severe ones with competition. Therefore mechanism not being from selection on mutations. The amazon of today is the original world. Every tree having its own species of something of like origin.
The more one looks in the fossil record the more diversity one finds. not unique populations that slowly branch out like a tree.
Instead branching is instant and only later is decay and extinction the result.
Its always this way.
OT: A little Christmas music to go with the Bioluminescent Christmas light show!
Hallelujah- Lindsey Stirling- #aSaviorIsBorn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VzprYCxPBQ
… and it’s turtles all the way down.
OT: Nick Matzke equivocates on the word evolution to finally, once and for all, provide real-time empirical proof for evolution:
Matzke, of all people, is complaining about plagiarizing?
Judge Jones in the Dover trial, which Nick Matzke was heavily involved in, plagiarized profusely:
A short history of Matzke’s literature bluffing – Nov. 2015
http://www.uncommondescent.com.....ent-589458