News to Know

• In-Depth Article

  Nutcracker Man’s Diet Was Rich in Brain Food After All

  Jan. 21, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Bright baboons know nutritional needs of “Nutcracker Man” were no problem.

• In-Depth Article

  Epigenetic Changes Let Mice Inherit Their Fathers’ Fears

  Jan. 9, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  Are inherited fears mere fodder for novels, or is there some basis for them in science?

• In-Depth Article

  Secrets of the Messel Pit, a Fossil Graveyard

  Jan. 4, 2014 from Answers in Depth

  The Messel Pit preserves animals suddenly and catastrophically buried in the wake of the global Flood.

• Fig Wasp Fossil Said to Pre-Date Figs by 65 Million Years

  Dec. 26, 2013

  Fig wasp fossil shows up too “soon” in the fossil record.

• Research Paper

  Super-salty Water Sealed Beneath Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater

  Dec. 5, 2013

  Does the Chesapeake Bay crater memorialize a meteorite impact from the time of Noah’s Flood?

• Did Archaeopteryx Evolve Flight and Then Get Grounded?

  Nov. 21, 2013

  “Proto-bird” or transitional form? Archaeopteryx gets its walking papers at Los Angeles conference.

• New Tyrannosaur Pushes Back Evolutionary Timeline

  Nov. 9, 2013

  Remarkably advanced tyrannosaur too low on the evolutionary staircase complicates dinosaur lineage.

• Vegetarian Piranhas’ Teeth Point to Pre-Fall Perfection

  Oct. 31, 2013

  The fearsome piranha’s vegetarian version uses its teeth to shred plants, not meat.

• Did Our Ancestors Evolve Into Humans Feet First?

  Oct. 21, 2013

  Belief that bipedal locomotion was the key to human evolution gets flipped on its hands.

• First Fossil Mosquito Found Filled with Blood

  Oct. 19, 2013

  Not old enough for Jurassic Park, this mosquito likely filled up on North American bird blood long ago.

• Research Paper

  Sutter’s Mill Meteorite Harbors a Wealth of Elusive Organics

  Sept. 16, 2013

  The inventory of life’s building blocks in space rocks rises.

• Do Genetic Similarities in Bats and Dolphins Echo Evolutionary Convergence?

  Sept. 14, 2013

  Surprising number of genomic “echoes” are associated with biological sonar in dolphins and bats.

• Circular Reasoning Surrounds Human Origins, but Even a Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day

  Aug. 12, 2013

  Mitochondrial Eve finally meets Y-chromosome Adam (sort of).

• Research Paper

  Were Birdbrains on the Dinosaur Pre-flight Checklist for Evolution?

  Aug. 10, 2013

  Evolutionists say birds evolved from dinosaurs with flight-ready brains.

• Lizards Begat Lizards

  July 25, 2013

  Evolutionists generally view “live-bearing” as an evolutionary advance over more primitive “egg-laying.”

• The World’s Oldest Water?

  June 13, 2013

  Researchers believe water trapped in tiny fractures within sulphide deposits has had no contact with water exposed for 1.5 to 2.64 billion years.

• Research Paper

  Conquering Cockroaches

  June 1, 2013

  Is evolution churning out smarter cockroaches skilled at evading and escaping your exterminator’s best tricks?

• Research Paper

  Taking out the Trash: Bladderwort DNA Is 97% Junk-free

  May 20, 2013

  Bladderwort DNA is 97% junk-free: Are there evolutionary implications?

• Research Paper

  Philadelphia Abortionist Gets Life in Prison for Infanticide

  May 18, 2013

  Is there any real difference between Gosnell’s victims and the invisible millions.

• Geologists Find Massive Volcanism Correlates with Mass Extinction

  April 6, 2013

  Massive volcanism correlated with the onset of the end-Triassic mass extinction, evolutionary geochronologists find.

• Higgs Boson Not God Particle, Still Incredible

  March 23, 2013

  It’s “The Higgs boson” or “a Higgs boson” but not the “God particle.”

• MIT Linguist Claims Human Speech Evolved from Birds

  March 16, 2013

  What do honeybee waggles and birdsong have to do with human speech? An MIT linguist believes they demonstrate that human speech evolved as Darwin thought.

• UK Academic: Wildlife Documentaries Need More Gay Animals

  March 9, 2013

  Wildlife documentaries are too family friendly, complains UK academic.

• Homo Erectus Had Skillfully Designed Tools

  Feb. 23, 2013

  Homo erectus had style and design of their tools down to a science.

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