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Friday Cephalopod: Epic Battle!
Posted by PZ Myers on September 16, 2016 Mary’s Monday Metazoan: It’s escaped from his head!
Posted by PZ Myers on September 12, 2016 It’s called a Black-Waved Flannel, but none of us are fooled. We know where that came from. It’s probably finished consuming its brain meal and is looking for a new host.
Old Earth creationists are just as ridiculous as Young Earth creationists
Posted by PZ Myers on September 12, 2016 The oldest evidence for microbial life has been found in Greenland, with fossilized 3.7 billion year old stromatolites (layered bacterial colonies) found in the rocks. Here’s what they look like: And here’s the abstract of the paper: Biological activity is a major factor in Earth’s chemical cycles, including facilitating CO2 sequestration and providing climate feedbacks.…
Evolution caught in a movie
Posted by PZ Myers on September 11, 2016 It’s a standing joke that creationists demand a complete time-lapse recording of evolution before they’re going to believe it. Joke no more: we’ve got one. It’s a movie of bacteria evolving antibiotic resistance. I don’t even need to explain it, because the video explains everything that’s going on. Different old joke now: But they’re still…
Fins made of straw, easily knocked down
Posted by PZ Myers on September 7, 2016 In response to Neil Shubin’s recent paper on the subject, and Carl Zimmer’s summary, the creationist Michael Denton criticizes evolutionary explanations for the vertebrate limb. It’s a bizarre argument. First, here’s the even shorter summary of the Shubin work. Ray-finned fish have, obviously enough, rays in their fins — rigid bony struts that provide structure.…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: the Monkey Slug Caterpillar
Posted by PZ Myers on September 5, 2016 It lives up to its name. Down to its name? Something, anyway.
Friday Cephalopod: Mommy, what are those two squid doing?
Posted by PZ Myers on September 2, 2016 “Well, Johnny, when a mommy squid and a daddy squid love each other very much…” “But Mommy, did that one just bite the other one? And are those little bits of squid in the water?” “Holy Mother of God, Johnny, don’t look! Don’t look! They’re eating each other!” “Yes, they are, Mommy, and there is…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: An arthropod proud of his joints
Posted by PZ Myers on August 30, 2016 Friday Cephalopod: the lonely fisherman
Posted by PZ Myers on August 26, 2016 It’s a quiet, lonely life for a squid in the deep, just drifting along, dangling a pair of lines, hoping to snag dinner. There are two videos of this squid, one from 2014 and another from 2013.