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Evolution: The Grand Experiment (Episode 2 Living Fossils) DVD

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Fossils Questions and Answers

Key articles

• A fossil is a fossil is a fossil. Right?
• The Links Are Missing (from Refuting Evolution)
• The Fossil Record: Becoming More Random All the Time
• Where are all the human fossils?
• Living fossils: a powerful argument for creation

Do fossils give evidence of their quick formation during great catastrophe, such as Noah’s Flood?

• A ‘165 million year’ surprise
• Buried Birth
• Dead whales: telling tales?
• Deluge disaster
• Fast fossils
• Folded ferns
• Hundreds of jellyfish fossils!
• Lily of the sea
• Fossil squid ink that still writes!

Fast Fossils: What other evidence shows that fossils don’t take long periods of time to form?

• Amazing stone bears of Yorkshire
• Tarawera’s Night of Terror (Rapid Fossilization)
• Fascinating fossil fence-wire
• Petrified flour
• ‘Fossil’ hat
• Message in a Bottle
• Whale explodes fossil theory
• Toy car rocks million-year belief
• Keys to rapid rock formation
• The clock in the rock
• That choking feeling

Is there any type of order in the fossil record?

• Are fossils ever found in the wrong place?
• Fossil flip-flop
• Further expansion of evolutionary fossil time ranges
• Fossils: do they become more complex?
• How well do paleontologists know fossil distributions?
• ‘Oldest’ fossil shrimp?
• Slow Fish in China
• ‘Remarkable’ mammal hairs in amber?
• Evolution exams and fossil fallacies

Are there really missing links? Is this a problem for particles-to-people evolution?

• That quote!—about the missing transitional fossils (Colin Patterson)
• Argument: The fossil record supports evolution
• Punctuated Equilibrium: Come of Age?
• Another leggy snake? (Eupodophis descouensi)
• Evolution of multicellularity : what is required?
• Mammal-like reptiles: major trait reversals and discontinuities
• Pterosaur ‘missing link’ poses problems for a Dawkins evolutionary story

Do fossilized plants and animals really look all that different from animals we see today?

• Living fossils and evolution, and does it matter if ‘junk DNA’ have functions?
• Death march (horseshoe crab)
• Fish that ‘fly’
• Another ‘living fossil’ tree
• Salamanders are living fossils!
• The Wollemi Pine
• Correcting the headline: ‘Coelacanth’ yes; ‘Ancient’ no

Does the fossil record of whales show that they evolved from land mammals?

• Whale evolution? (from Refuting Evolution)
• A Whale of a Tale
• The Strange Tale of a Leg on a Whale
• To Make a Tail for a Whale
• The World of Whales
• Walking whales, nested hierarchies, and chimeras: do they exist?

Are there transitional forms between fish and tetrapods?

• The fossil record of ‘early’ tetrapods: evidence of a major evolutionary transition?
• Tiktaalik—a fishy ‘missing link’
• Is the famous fish-fossil finished?
• Livoniana—Have they (finally!) found a missing link?
• Gogonasus—a fish with human limbs?
• ’The oldest pregnant mum’—not! (Materpiscis attenboroughi or ‘Mother fish of Attenborough’)
• Ventastega—not a leg to stand on
• Is the fish really our ancestor?
• Panderichthys—a fish with fingers?

Related Q&A pages

• Death and Suffering
• Noah’s Flood
• Geology
• Dinosaurs

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