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Rodhocetus and other stories of whale evolution
Rodhocetus, a key fossil in the story of whale evolution, proves to be nothing like textbooks and articles portray.
by Don Batten
Did birds evolve from dinosaurs?
Do Archaeopteryx and so-called ‘feathered dinosaurs’ support dino-to-bird evolution?
by Michael J Oard
Cladistics, evolution and the fossils
How are all those nicely presented evolutionary trees put together? Do they really demonstrate evolution?
by Shaun Doyle
Horsetails are ‘living fossils’!
Long familiar to keen gardeners, horsetails are ‘living fossils’, unchanged from their supposedly ‘prehistoric’ ancestors.
by David Catchpoole
Golden oldie
Today, Koelreuteria lives in its natural state only in China, Japan and Korea. Why so far from its fossils found in USA and Germany?
by David Catchpoole
The origin of the Carboniferous coal measures—part 2: The logic of lycopod root structure
Part 2: The logic of lycopod root structure
by Joanna F. Woolley
Living fossil ray riddle
A living Shovelnose Ray is almost identical to a ‘dinosaur era’ fossil ray, a living fossil, challenging both evolution and geological time.
Further expansion of evolutionary fossil time ranges
More confusion and contradiction in the evolutionary story about the fossils.
by Michael Oard
80 whales buried mysteriously in Chilean desert
Marine graveyard is dramatic evidence for Noah’s Flood
by Tas Walker
Living fossils and ‘junk DNA’
Why do ‘living fossils’ and functions in ‘junk DNA’ present problems for evolution?
by Don Batten, Lita Cosner
Evolution exams and fossil fallacies
How to answer questions about evolution: whether for course credit or to clear up misconceptions about fossils
by Shaun Doyle, Jonathan Srafati
Is the famous fish-fossil finished?
Tiktaalik, the transitional star, faces an evolutionary dead-end
by Tas Walker