A passion for rocks
Tas Walker talks to Philip Worts about geology and ground-breaking discoveries
Fossils
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David Attenborough’s First Life: Arrival
Attenborough tells the evolutionary story of how life started on Earth, but the fossils at the locations shown are problems for evolution rather than proof thereof.
The mystery of the inside-out ammonite
How was the soft tissue of an ammonite fossilized without its shell attached?
The Woolly Mammoth
The unique conditions and short timespan of the biblical Ice Age explain how Wooly Mammoths were buried and preserved.
Bird evolution flies out the window
You were likely taught that the famous Archaeopteryx was a bird-reptile ‘link’. But what are the facts?
Neanderthals becoming more modern with time
Archaeology confirms that Neanderthal Man had numerous abilities that are attributed to modern man.
“830-million-year-old” microorganisms?
Microorganisms discovered in salt are reportedly 830 million years old, but this goes against all the laws of chemistry and molecular break-down
The fossil record is complete enough
Does this mean the paucity of transitional fossils is real?
Neandertals weren’t ‘cave men’
Neandertals’ most famous homes were caves, but that’s not where they lived all the time.
Dicynodonts and ‘out-of-place’ fossils
Giant mammal-like reptiles in the age of dinosaurs? Cretaceous dicynodont reclassified to Cenozoic mammal, otherwise it would be a proverbial Precambrian rabbit.
Did God create over billions of years?
The god of an old earth is not the God of Christianity.
Early victim of the ‘dinosaur-extinction impact’
The first dinosaur death is claimed to have been drowned and quickly buried due to a huge tsunami caused by the Chicxulub impact at the Yucatan peninsula.