Ways to read the rocks.
Embedded in the sedimentary rock layers (GEOLOGY; of sedimentary rock that has formed from sediment deposited by water) are the remains of once-living things. Most are just mineralized bones but many are the actual bones of once living things. Some soft tissues which have mineralized can be found in extremely rare instances and many soft-bodied animals left their […]
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New fossil proves that evolution forgot to evolve – again!
The more we find of fossil forms, the more evidence amasses that nothing has ever evolved. A new article entitled, “Tiny new fossil helps rewrite crab evolution, sheds lights on late Jurassic marine world,” one more discovery that life forms have not changed is added to this list. Ironically the title has nothing to do […]
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Fossilized bees were finicky pollen collectors.
We could title this post, “Fossilized bees discovered to be, fossilized bees”. Let me explain. Here is another “amazing story about evolution. A story about how honeybees collected pollen and stored it in their honeypots (sacs on their legs) but appear to have eaten almost any nectar for their own food. The bees were called […]
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Why mice have longer sperm than elephants!
Here is another story sure to be a classic in Darwin’s Book of Fairy Tales. In Science Daily, the title above leads the reader to think that something factual has been discovered: an answer to some mystery. The headline reads this way: In the animal world, if several males mate with the same female, their […]
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The Mastadon and Pumpkin Pie Connection
I have read some strange evolutionary fairy tales and many of them are hilarious. Here are a few I recall: humans evolved a big brain because we ate more meat. Grandmothers exist because it benefits the younger female to have more children. Humans are hairless because it reduces parasitism. Humans walk upright to carry food. […]
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Unfossilized bones, millions of years old?
It has been estimated that over the millennia, all the people that have ever lived have numbered 108 billion persons. This assumes human beings began 50,000 years ago starting at 2 people. That’s a lot of people. That is a lot of bones. I don’t have estimates for the number of dogs and cats, horses […]
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Here’s a Fishy Story!
A new study(1) says that the enamel that coats your teeth first “evolved” in the skin. Later, it “colonized” the teeth to give us, well, teeth. Evidence? Fish. Yes, fish! How so? Seems some fish produce an enamel-like substance that coats their scales. Looking at the genome of some modern fish like the North American […]
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Keeping the myth alive.
Our science has been looking for Earth-like worlds for decades now. Radio signals, stars like our own, wobbles in the light spectra coming from distant suns that may indicate an orbiting planet, are all part of the search for other worlds with potential life. A recent discovery turned out to be “the planet that wasn’t […]
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Cellular Ribosomes: The Origin of Life?
A recent paper in the Journal of Theoretical Biology[i] boasts a solution to the “Many steps in the evolution in cellular life.” The authors suggest that the ribosome, a cellular machine of tremendous complexity and specificity, may be an important link between cellular metabolism for life and the first living cell (or “last universal common […]
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“LIFE NOT AS WE KNOW IT?”
Living things on the earth share so many traits it is hard to imagine how life could be differently assembled using molecules unlike DNA, proteins, and lipid membranes. In fact, the known elements particularly those that are used in biochemistry limit the reactivity and functionality of molecular structures to the elements we know are used […]
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