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European common lizard, Zootoca vivipara Image credit: Meredith Kimble European common lizard, Zootoca vivipara By Ocrdu - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link University of Glasgow - University news - Scientists uncover the evolutionary process behind live birth in lizards Live birth is not a simple characteristic that could be produced by switching a single gene on or off. Retaining embryos inside the…
The Harbin cranium From: Fu Q, Cao P, Dai Q (2025) Reconstruction of Homo longi from the Harbin cranium, now identified as that of a Denisovan. Nobu Tamura , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Were Denisovans tall compared to other ancient humans? We should be sceptical One of the most important differences between science and creationism is not that science possesses absolute certainty while…
Ancient Penguin Fossils Offer New Window into Antarctica’s Changing Climate | Blog Fossil collection sites, Seymour Island, Antarctica. Images credit: Boyang Xia et al. Embarrassed by the wealth of fossils documenting an orderly succession of changing life over hundreds of millions of years, creationists traditionally fall back on several almost equally implausible attempts to reconcile the…
The bird cliff Stappen, southern Bjørnøya (Bear Island) in the Barents Sea. The island is part of Svalbard, Norway. Michael Haferkamp , CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons Microfossils from a sediment core of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), Sediment sample with microfossils Hannes Grobe (talk), Alfred Wegener Institute , CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons On The Hunt For Earth’s First…
Evolution is a process not an event AI-generated image (ChatGPT 5.6 Sol) Where does red become blue? Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree. Taxonomy is an indispensable tool for organising the living world, but it can also create a misleading impression of nature divided into sharply separated compartments. The familiar Linnaean hierarchy was devised in a pre-evolutionary age,…
Carabus blaptoides By Adan - Photo taken by Adan at Sendai Miyagi, Japan., CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Reach in or crush the shell? A flightless snail-hunting beetle evolved different body shapes even without a sea barrier | EurekAlert! Montage created by AI (ChatGPT 5.6 Sol) Phylogenetic relationships and geographic distribution of Carabus blaptoides Junji Konuma Islands have repeatedly provided some of…
[caption] [credit] Reconstruction of Purussarus neivensis attacking Pericotoxodon platignathus. Image: Miguel Hernandez. Giant crocodylians dominated the food chain in Miocene South America | University of Helsinki . If the Young-Earth creationist claim that there was no death, suffering or predation before Eve’s supposed ‘sin’ were true, four fossil specimens preserved in museum collections in…
24 million Years ago 5.3 million years ago AI-generated images (ChatGPT 5.6 Sol) Northwest Africa, 24 Million years ago. AI-Generated image (ChatGPT 5.6 Sol) African grasslands became widespread over five million years earlier than previously known | EurekAlert! To anyone familiar with Africa today, its extensive grasslands and savannahs can seem almost timeless: landscapes of grasses, scattered…
Neanderthals working in the Abri 122/1200, Vârghiș Gorges, Romania AI-generated image (ChatGPT 5.6 Sol) Abri 122/1200, Vârghiș Gorges, Eastern Carpathians, Romania Research paper: Insights into Neanderthal technological practices: Evidence of anthropogenic modifications on animal bones at the Abri 122/1200 Middle Paleolithic site (Eastern Carpathians, Romania) One of creationism’s favourite…
"Triassic Mothers," a life reconstruction of a group of Chiniquodon theotonicus individuals, a pregnant female (left) as well as a female (right) breastfeeding few, relatively large neonates. Credit: María de los Ángeles Miceli Baro. New fossil evidence challenges the story of mammalian birth A newly published study suggests that one characteristic commonly associated with modern mammals—giving…
The history of Homo sapiens in Africa between 44,000 and 3,000 years ago was one of isolation, migration, interaction and replacement a shown by characteristic inner ear labyrinth morphologies. AI-generated image (ChatGPT 5.6 Sol) Research paper: Bony labyrinth morphology reveals deep population history and isolation among Homo sapiens in prehistoric northeastern Africa (44–3 ka) | Nature…
