Life reconstruction of _Teilhardina_
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Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold – not the tropics
At times, it seems almost cruel to keep reminding creationists that another day, another week and another month have passed, and still there is no hint that biomedical scientists are about to abandon evidence-based evolutionary biology and adopt…
Wild starwberry, Fragaria vesca
By Jörg Hempel, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Link
A genomic time machine traces how the modern strawberry came to be | EurekAlert!
Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did
Dr. William Butler, Physician - (1535–29 January 1618)
Talking of the strawberry.
This and my next blog post deal with essentially the same…
Potm2605a (NGC 4501)
ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker and the MAUVE-HST Team
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and…
An expanding mini universe could counterbalance the collapsing matter of a star, thereby creating a stable gravastar.
Credit: Daniel Jampolski and Luciano Rezzolla,
Goethe University Frankfurt
Big Bang inside a star: How a gravastar forms | EurekAlert!
Creationists like to think they have dealt a death-blow to cosmology with the childish question, "How can a universe come from nothing?"…
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Genomes from Oceania offer new clues to human evolution | Yale News
A paper recently published by a Yale University-led team in the journal Science shows how Denisovan genes in the people of Near Oceania have contributed especially to their immune systems, and so have continued to influence human evolution for tens of…
Mycorrhizal fungi under the microscope at AMOLF biophysics institute in Amsterdam. The circular structures are spores. Color is altered for legibility.
Credit: Tomás Munita
New global research maps underground fungal infrastructure for the first time - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
An international team of researchers, led by ecologist Justin Stewart of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, has…
Fallow deer, _Dama dama_
Photo credit: Jiří Nedorost.,
CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fallow deer
Photo credit: Memurubu, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
UP News - University of Potsdam
A paper just published in iScience should, if they were aware of it, at least cause an honest creationist to question some basic assumptions. It reports that modern European fallow deer, _Dama…
Half-ton early Bovines roamed 4-million-year-old grasslands in Europe | EurekAlert!
Palaeoartistic reconstruction of the environment in the surrounding of Camp dels Ninots maar lake during the early Pliocene.
Artwork by Mauricio Antón.
Nowhere in the Bible will you find any mention of wild cattle roaming the land, nor any indication that domestic animals are highly modified descendants…
A crouched burial of a 40 year old man in Oostwoud, the earliest known Bell Beaker grave identified by the researchers.
Source: Provincial Depot for Archaeology Noord-Holland.
DNA study uncovers continental origins of Britain’s bronze age population
Leaving a side the long history of archaic hominins such as the Neanderthals and their ancestors inhabiting Western Eurasia for about 250,000…
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Microscopic fungi, baker’s or brewer’s yeast, are used as probiotics to restore normal flora of intestine.
Image credit: Adobe Stock
A new theory of molecular evolution | University of Michigan News
A paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution last november (2025) by four evolutionary biologists from the University of Michigan might have…
All my paperback books are now printed on lower carbon groundwood paper. What does this mean for the reader? Here is what Amazon have to say:
Groundwood paper is a lower carbon option perfect for paperback novels and text-heavy books. Because of its higher opacity and textured feel, it makes pages easier to read and turn.…
A reconstruction of __Kank_ australis_
Gabriel Díaz Yantén
A reconstruction of __Kank_ australis_
Gabriel Díaz Yantén.
Heron-like, fish-eating dinosaur from 70 million years ago discovered in Argentina - Taylor & Francis Newsroom
In my previous post, I wrote about _Labrujasuchus expectatus_ , a bizarre distant relative of the crocodile line which walked on two legs, had tiny arms, and…
Reconstruction of _Labrujasuchus expectatus_
Art by Jorge Gonzalez
© NHMLAC Dinosaur Institute.
Reconstruction of _Labrujasuchus expectatus_ , a new species of Shuvosauridae from Late Triassic rocks of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
Art by Jorge Gonzalez, © NHMLAC Dinosaur Institute.
New Species of Bizarre, Bipedal, Toothless Crocodile Relative from the Triassic Discovered | Natural History…
“Invasional Mutualism” Between Honey Bees and Myrtle Rust Pathogen | Blog
Figure 1.
Foraging of urediniospores by bees on plants infected with myrtle rust. a. Honey bee forager collecting Austropuccinia psidii urediniospores from leaves of broadleaf paperbark [Melaleuca quinquenervia (Myrtales, Myrtaceae)], Bungawalbin, New South Wales, Australia; b. A. psidii…
A St Kilda Wren, _Troglodytes troglodytes hirtensis_
Photo: Craig Nisbet
A Shetland Wren, _Troglodytes troglodytes zetlandicus_ , Kergord, Mainland, Shetland
Photo credit: Dr Michał Jezierski
New research helps scientists unlock evolution of gigantism in Scottish island wrens - University of Birmingham
Creationists will continually demand evidence for evolution being observed, then,…
The origin of blood cells can be traced back approximately 700 million years to when human ancestors were single-celled organisms. When these ancestors evolved into multicellular organisms (animals), macrophages emerged as the first blood cells. Over the course of subsequent evolution, various blood cells, such as mast cells, diversified.
KyotoU / Yosuke Nagahata
The 700-million-year…
An artist’s reconstruction of a Marathousa 1 paleolithic woman producing a digging stick from a small alder tree trunk with a small stone tool. This kind of wood was used for the Marathousa 1 digging stick. Use-wear analysis of stone tools at Marathousa 1 shows evidence of woodworking.
Credit: Original art by G. Prieto, copyright K. Harvati.
Earliest evidence of wooden tools used by…
Reconstruction of a hypothetical deep-water paleocommunity from the new fossil site in Canada’s Northwest Territories, based on fossils recovered by the researchers.
Alex Boersma
Fossil Trove Expands Range of Squishy Early Animals - American Museum of Natural History
A paper published on 20 May 2026 in Science Advances by a team of palaeontologists led by Scott D. Evans of the American…
Tiny fossils found in 1.7 billion-year-old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life.
The creationist Ken Ham’s website, Answers in Genesis (AiG), is notorious for the way it exploits the ignorance of its target readership and their eagerness for spurious “scientific” validation of evidence-free superstition. For example, AiG recently posted on X, formerly Twitter, asserting that the…
Spider infected with _Gibellula pseudosolita_
Chang, Chen-xin, et al (2026)
Spider infected with _Gibellula pseudosolita_
Chang, Chen-xin, et al (2026)
Inside the Hidden World of Spider-Attacking Fungi | Blog
Parasites are hard enough for creationists to force-fit into their predetermined belief that all things were created by an omnibenevolent god, short of resorting to the…
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Forget sci-fi wormholes — physicists now think Einstein’s mysterious “bridge” may connect two directions of time itself.
Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com
Wormholes may not exist – we’ve found they reveal something deeper about time and the universe
A paper published open access in January 2026 in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity should, if…
Why meat-eating dinosaurs like T. rex evolved tiny arms | UCL
Although they may have retained some residual function, what the forelimbs of _Tyrannosaurus rex_ were almost certainly not used for was grabbing and holding large prey. They were far too short and mechanically limited for that role, especially in a predator whose real killing equipment was a massive skull, powerful jaws and…
Saltwater crocodile, _Crocodylus poros_
By Molly Ebersold
St Augustine's Alligator Farm,
Public Domain, Link
Jorgo Ristevski, CC BY
129,000 years of crocodiles: what we know about Australasia’s ancient apex predators
According to Bronze Age Biblical mythology, existing species should have no ancestors because they were all supposedly magicked into existence fully formed during a few…
Illustration of _Dacentrurus armatus_.
Adrián Blázquez / Fundación Dinópolis.
Europe’s most complete stegosaurian skull unearthed in Teruel, Spain | Pensoft.blog
Another day, another dinosaur. At least, that must be how it feels to creationists trying to cling to demonstrably false beliefs by ignoring the evidence and pretending each new discovery is either a mistake, a fraud, or a…
A sketch of the giant octopus.
Image: Yohei Utsuki
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Hokkaido University.
Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago – Hokkaido University
To a conspiracy-theorist creationist who sees science as an organised plot to trick them into changing their mind, it must seem that the whole world and its dog are ganging up on them. The…
_Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis_
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Artistic impression of _Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis_
‘Last titan’: Southeast Asia’s biggest dinosaur discovered | UCL News - UCL – University College London
I wrote recently about how and why dinosaurs are such a problem for creationists, which is why some of them resort to the desperate and ludicrously implausible…
Discovery of collagen in fossil bone could unlock new insights into dinosaurs - News - University of Liverpool
An open-access paper published in January 2025 in the journal Analytical Chemistry will no doubt have had creationist disinformation merchants rubbing their hands with glee, because it is exactly the sort of finding they can misrepresent to their scientifically illiterate followers…
Hunter-gatherers in post-glacial Britain
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Llangorse Lake and key Late Palaeolithic sites and other palaeoenvironmental records referred to in the text within the British land mass (green) and the ice sheet extent (white) at 16 ka (ref. 2).
Matthews, I.P., Palmer, A.P., Candy, I. et al.(2025).
Humans returned to British Isles earlier than…
A mask depicting Aterui 'Lord of Tamo', a famous Emishi chief from the ancient Tohoku District in Japan. The Emishi people from north-east Asia have been identified as a possible third main ancestral group in Japan.
© Avalon.red / Alamy Stock Photo
Geographic regions in Japan from which the samples were recruited are described. These regions include the Japan archipelago, commonly known…
_Bicharracosaurus dionidei_
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Landscape view from the excavation site.
Photo: Amalia Villafañe
SNSB – Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns » Palaeontologists Discover New Long-Necked Dinosaur in Patagonia
A German-Argentine team of palaeontologists led by dinosaur expert Oliver Rauhut of the Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche…
