Category: stasis

Apparently melanin resists degradation much more than other organic pigments. more

“The researchers observed that tarsiers emitted their ultrasonic call when humans were near, suggesting they were voicing alarm.” more

Horseshoe crabs have survived 450 years, three global extinctions, with no evidence of evolution. Watch them repel Darwin’s spin doctor. more

Significant Darwinian evolution is forever happening somewhere else, just out of reach. more

Turned up in South Africa; Can leap as well as a grasshopper. more

Here’s Physorg on those recently found tintinnids from 635-715 million years ago. In “New fossils reveal oldest known ciliates” (November 16, 2011), Jennifer Chu reports, Anyone who has taken high school biology has likely come into contact with a ciliate. The much-studied paramecium is one of 7,000 species of ciliates, a vast group of microorganisms… more

“Foraminifera estimated 715 million years old that had to endure the so-called “Snowball Earth” period when the Earth was covered in ice ” more

If the suggestion to reclassify living fossils as “durable species” were followed, it might be harder to justify this decision. more

“The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center’s Meachen said the skull’s similarity to those of living tigers and jaguars is more striking than the differences.” more

And you’re not tired of hooting at Darwinism yet? Nor are we. more

Some people wonder why life forms just appear and then nothing much happens for hundreds of millions of years. That’s a key reason there is a controversy around evolution. more