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• 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.

• Fossils vs. Clocks: Both Camps Have Flawed Foundation

  Feb. 16, 2013

  A study packed with anatomical data and a significant bit of whimsy attempts to explain when the ancestor of most mammals (the placental ones) evolved.

• Creation Museum Does Not Support the Curse of Ham

  Jan. 26, 2013

  The Creation Museum does not promote the erroneous “curse of Ham.”

• Sky Survey Discovers Big Bang-defying Quasar Cluster

  Jan. 19, 2013

  Sky Survey discovers a faraway quasar cluster that is too big to exist within the big bang model’s assumptions.

• The Dirtiness of Jesus Dwelling Among Us

  Jan. 19, 2013

  “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us . . .” (John 1:14).

• Semantics Matter: What Does the Pill Do?

  Jan. 12, 2013

  With legislation set to go into effect requiring private employers to provide abortifacients as an insurance benefit, Liberty University English professor Karen Swallow Prior has called attention to the increasingly sloppy usage of relevant terms in the controversy.

• Evolutionary Language Search Lands at Babel

  Jan. 5, 2013

  Search for evolutionary explanation of languages falls short and lands at Babel.

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