Missing Links

• Scientists Discover Another Suspicious Missing Link

  July 12, 2008

  Scientists have discovered yet another missing link—but like others, this one strikes us as a little fishy.

• Magazine Department Article

  Landed—a Missing Link?

  July 1, 2008 from Answers Magazine

  Paleontologists have found a fossil they tout as the missing link that connects whales and dolphins to land mammals.

• Fish-to-Tetrapod Missing Link Found

  June 28, 2008

  According to a much-ballyhooed report in Nature, scientists have found another fish-to-tetrapod “missing link.” Just don’t read the fine print.

• Missing Link May Have Shuffled on Its Way to Bipedalism

  June 7, 2008

  Might the missing link have done a dance move on its way to bipedalism?

• Magazine Department Article

  For the Birds?

  Feb. 4, 2008 from Answers Magazine

  Paleontologists say they have found a 100-million-year-old missing link, named Gansus, in the evolution of birds.

• River-Slosher—Missing Link?

  Dec. 22, 2007 from News to Know

  A team of paleontologists has “identified” a fossil as the missing link connecting land mammals to supposed evolutionary kin of whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

• Gone Fishin’ for a Missing Link? (A Preliminary Response)

  April 6, 2006

  The secular press has been buzzing over a report that a fossil had been found in the Arctic that supposedly proves that land animals evolved from fish.

• Read the Fine Print—A Preliminary Comment on Saturday’s “Missing Link” Claim in Ethiopia

  March 26, 2006

  Researchers working in Ethiopia declared over the weekend that they have discovered “the skull of a small human ancestor that could be a missing link between the extinct Homo erectus and modern man”

• Technical Research Paper

  Bird Evolution: Discontinuities and Reversals

  April 1, 2003, pp. 88–94

  Theropod dinosaurs, widely accepted as the ancestors of birds, do not show a step-by-step gradational change to Archaeopteryx, the first known bird.

• Technical Research Paper

  Walking Whales, Nested Hierarchies, and Chimeras: Do They Exist?

  April 1, 2002, pp. 111–119

  The trends cited in whale evolution are rather superficial in nature, and little different from those that become apparent by lining up wheeled vehicles within a cladogram.

• Another “Missing Link” Takes Flight

  Oct. 16, 2000

  In a case that smacks of the Piltdown Man forgery early last century, National Geographic magazine has admitted to having egg on its face due to an item it published in November 1999.

• Research Paper

  Does a ‘Transitional Form’ Replace One Gap with Two Gaps?

  Aug. 1, 2000, pp. 5–6

  Creationists are often ridiculed for pointing to gaps in the fossil record. It is alleged, the finding of a ‘transitional form’ means that one can now argue two gaps in the fossile record.

• Magazine Article

  The Taung Skull: ‘Missing Link’?

  Dec. 1, 1993, pp. 16–17

  Dart’s discovery of a skull in lime works at Taung did not legitimize the evolution theory, but rather caused great debate among scientists of the day, raising questions which have yet to be answered.

• Magazine Article

  Yet Another ‘Missing Link’ Fails to Qualify

  June 1, 1993, pp. 40–44

  A fossil truly ‘in-between’ the crucial fish and amphibian characters is not only hard to conceive, but has never been found.

• Magazine Article

  Finding the Real 'Missing Link'

  Sept. 1, 1991, pp. 4–5

  Some of the most inconclusive and misleading reports ever published fall into the category of alleged evolutionary breakthroughs.

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