The DpSU for Thursday was called Fossil Moth Still Shows Its Colors. The subjects are 47 million year old moth fossils from the Messel Pit, for which the chitin nanostructure that causes their colour has (more-or-less) survived.
Posts Tagged ‘Fossils’
20 Dec
Beached Whales
The title of the DpSU for the 20th of December is Whales in the Desert? The topic is interesting in that I’ve already heard of this find in the context of creationism – it was discussed twice on TWIGO:CP, in TerryH fails geology forever and more briefly in Terry vs The Whale, and inspired a post on We Couldn’t Make This Up.
14 Dec
Those Soft Tissues
The Daily Science Update for Tuesday was Skin Sample Is Two Million Years Old? In it we have a return to the topic of soft tissues which were so popular back in July. Back in July, along with a number of DpSUs on the subject, Mr Thomas created a list of “Published Reports of Original [...]
10 Dec
Bone-Eating Zombie Worms
The DpSU for Friday turned out to be called ‘Zombie Worms’ Ate Mediterranean Fossil.
22 Jul
I Sense a Pattern
This latest Daily (pseudo)Science Update from the Institute for Creation Research, Fossil Pigment Paints Long Ages into a Corner, is the third in four days to be about organic materials in fossils, and the fourth of four to be about fossils in general. As such, I’m going to make this a quick one, as I’ve said [...]
20 Jul
From Dinosaurs to Ice Age Plants
Fresh from his latest article on collagen survival in dinosaur fossils, Brian Thomas of the Institute for Creation Research is now spreading misinformation about the discovery of some exceptionally well-preserved trees in Ice Age clay in Maine. Basically we have some wood found in 1976 in Maine in an “Ice Age clay formation in a [...]
6 Jul
Soft Tissues and Logical Fallacies
In 2005, Palaeontologists lead by Mary Higby Schweitzer revealed to the world (in a paper in Science, read it here) of their discovery of ‘soft tissue’ in a bone of the ‘B. Rex’ Tryannosaurus specimen (MOR 1125), which was dug up in a 68 million year old portion of the Hell Creek formation. The proteins [...]
14 Jun
Limits to Evolution and an Out of Place Fossil – Quick DpSU 14 June
Our first DpSU is entitled “The Cost of Adaptations Limits Evolution“. This seems to be a classic Micro/Macro Evolution story, and by my reckoning a Type AE DpSU (Misrepresented Study). Or in this case, studies. Mr Thomas is talking about two studies from a recent issue of the journal Science in which bacteria (Methylobacterium and [...]
9 Jun
This is the Best You Can Come Up With? – Quick DpSU
There seems to be a conspiracy theory amongst Creationists, at-least at the ICR, that dinosaur beds contain fossils of modern species as well. This conspiracy seems to be largely the result of the work of “Medical doctor Carl Werner”, and his Evolution: The Grand Experiment book and DVD series. For today’s DpSU, Brian Thomas (who [...]
