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All Bears Are Brethren

April 24, 2017

The world-wide variations on bears could have come from one original type. It has been known that Alaskan brown bears can hybridize with polar bears. The resulting mixed breeds, sometimes called ‘pizzlies’ or ‘cappucino bears’, were thought to be rare. Now, in a surprising study from Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, scientists have […]

Fossils

Tick Talk: Mammal Blood Found in Amber

April 5, 2017

Can intact blood be preserved for 15 to 45 million years, give or take 50 million?

Terrestrial Zoology

Clever Critters

March 21, 2017

Small animals accomplish mighty wonders that require knowledge of advanced mathematics, physics and genetics.

Marine Biology

Design of Life Update: Marine Biology

March 10, 2017

The animal stars of Illustra Media's "Design of Life" documentaries are still in the news: this time, whales, dolphins, fish and sea turtles.

Fossils

Mammals Ate Dinosaurs

January 13, 2017

Fossil shows a mammal with a big bite could have munched on small dinosaurs for lunch.

Darwin and Evolution

Evolutionists Boast of Storytelling

July 22, 2016

Some evolutionists not only own up to just-so storytelling; they parade it.

Biomimetics

Celebrate Independence from Darwin

July 4, 2016

With so much great science news about design, who needs to maintain allegiance to King Charles?

Darwin and Evolution

Anti-Darwinian Observations Require New Stories

April 23, 2016

Here are new findings that contradict traditional neo-Darwinian theory.

Mammals

Swimming Monkeys Keep Darwin Happy

March 22, 2016

The tree of placental mammals has been solved, Darwinians say, if you can handle one little complication.

Fossils

Separating Old Bones from Living Storytellers

January 5, 2016

What happens when discrete bones are forced into a continuous narrative where they don't fit? Answer: storytelling.

Physics

How Animals Keep Warm in Freezing Wetness

November 25, 2015

We shiver to think of going without heavy coats in snow, but snowshoe hares, gophers and birds look perfectly comfortable. What's their secret?

Dinosaurs

Will the Dinosaur Paradigm Be Next to Fall?

September 29, 2015

"Cold dinosaur" fossils have paleontologists questioning everything they thought they knew about dinosaur physiology.

Mammals

What Sparked the Mammal Explosion?

September 3, 2015

If you think tiny shrew-like mammals scurried afoot below dinosaurs right before they went extinct, you've got the wrong picture.

Darwin and Evolution

So Where's the Evolution?

July 30, 2015

When you go looking for evolution and find stasis, has Darwin been falsified?

Human Body

Sex Cells: The Evolution (or Design) of Genitalia

November 6, 2014

There's been a lot of news about sex organs in recent days. Which does a better job of explaining the facts of life: design or evolution?