Fossil Friday: Cambrian Bryozoa Come and Go

bilaterians, body plans, Bryozoa, Cambrian animals, Cambrian Explosion, Carboniferous strata, chordates, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Fossil Friday, fossil record, great Ordovician biodiversification event, green algae, inkblots, invertebrates, lophophore, Lower Cambrian, Lower Ordovician, metazoans, microCT, Middle Pennsylvanian, molecular clock studies, moss animals, Nevada, Ohio, paleontology, phosphatic fossils, Pywackia baileyi, South China, tentacles
This is a field that often has more in common with the interpretation of inkblots in Rorschach tests than with hard science. Source
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More Cambrian Woes for Evolution

Andrej Ernst, astrochronology, biology, Bryozoa, bryozoans, budding, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, China, climate change, Evolution, fossil record, hermaphroditism, information, Intelligent Design, Jacob Musser, Jan Audun Rasmussen, Mark A. Wilson, Max Koslov, molecular studies, Nature (journal), Nature News and Views, Ordovician Period, P. gatehousei, paleontology, Sally Leys, Stephen Meyer, UC San Diego, University of Alberta, University of Copehagen, zooids
New fossils continue to put pressure on the evolutionary narrative of gradualism. Source
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