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• Peer-reviewed Paper

  A Mesozoic fossil lagerstätte from 250.8 million years ago shows a modern-type marine ecosystem

  February 9, 2023 Xu Dai, et al. Science

  The Triassic recovery of life from the devastating end-Permian mass extinction was an amazing period of evolution. Whether biodiversity had to rebuild from near annihilation or from refugia is a matter of conjecture

• News Update/Commentary

  Yellow evolution: Unique genes led to new species of monkeyflower

  February 9, 2023 University of Connecticut Science Daily

  Pigment permutations suggest new genes are what make a new species

• God at the Museum

  February 9, 2023 Fiona Lacey First Things

  My sister and I recently decided to visit the Museum of the Bible, which sits catty-corner from the Capitol in the heart of Washington, D.C.

• 2.9-million-year-old butchery site reopens case of who made first stone tools

  February 9, 2023 Smithsonian EurekAlert!

  Discovery of stone tools and cut-marked animal bones in Kenya offers window into the dawn of stone technology

• Have Our Universe’s First Stars Finally Been Spotted?

  February 9, 2023 Ken Ham Answers in Genesis

• News Update/Commentary

  Fossil discovery reveals complex ecosystems existed on Earth much earlier than previously thought

  February 9, 2023 McGill University Science Daily

  Discovery challenges understanding of how quickly life recovered from the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history

• Why Carl Sagan believed that science is a source of spirituality

  February 9, 2023 Bobby Azarian Big Think

  Science will lead us to a universal morality and a cosmic religion.

• News Update/Commentary

  How giants became dwarfs

  February 9, 2023 University of Bern Science Daily

  In certain Lake Tanganyika cichlids breeding in empty snail shells, there are two extreme sizes of males: giants and dwarfs. Researchers have analyzed the genomes of these fish and found out how the peculiar sizes of males and females evolved

• Ancient stone tools suggest early humans dined on hippo

  February 9, 2023 Freda Kreier Nature

  Fossils and artefacts unearthed in Kenya suggest our ancestors used stone stools to feed on large animals in the distant past.

• Sea life bounced back fast after the ‘mother of mass extinctions’

  February 9, 2023 Dyani Lewis Nature

  A treasure trove of fossils uncovered in China challenges the idea that marine animals took millions of years to recover from the world’s worst die-off.

• Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we thought

  February 9, 2023 Brian Owens New Scientist

  A diverse set of fossils from China shows that a complex marine ecosystem existed 251 million years ago, shortly after a mass extinction wiped out most complex life on Earth

• Early hominin Paranthropus may have used sophisticated stone tools

  February 9, 2023 Michael Marshall New Scientist

  Stone tools discovered in Kenya are the oldest Oldowan-type implements found, dating back at least 2.6 million years, and they may have been made by our relative Paranthropus

• Beyond Evolutionary Fitness, Mammals Are Ecosystem Engineers

  February 9, 2023 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• James Tour Dismantles Dave Farina’s Expert Witnesses on the State of Origin-of-Life Research

  February 9, 2023 Brian Miller Evolution News & Science Today

• Darwin’s abiogenesis

  February 9, 2023 Florin Mocanu Creation Ministries International

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• Do People and Wild Apes Share a Common Language?

  February 9, 2023 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• News Update/Commentary

  Whiskers help nectar-eating ‘acro bats' hover like hummingbirds

  February 8, 2023 Dartmouth College Science Daily

  Extra-long hairs provide enhanced spatial information for orientation and feeding

• Harvesting Clones to Live Forever Would Be Monstrous

  February 8, 2023 Wesley J. Smith Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  Scientists develop new index based on functional morphology to understand how ancestors of modern birds used their wings

  February 8, 2023 Nagoya University Science Daily

  Scientists have compared the relationship among the strength of flight bones, body mass, and the way modern birds fly to better understand the evolution of flight in birds and extinct animals, such as the Pteranodon.

• Geneticists Puzzled by Octopus’s Unique Genes

  February 8, 2023 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

  Seem to Have Appeared Out of Nowhere

• News Update/Commentary

  Protein droplets may cause many types of genetic disease

  February 8, 2023 Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Science Daily

  Malfunction of cellular condensates is a disease mechanism relevant for congenital malformations, common diseases, and cancer, new research suggests.

• The weirdness of quantum mechanics forces scientists to confront philosophy

  February 8, 2023 Marcelo Gleiser Big Think

  Though quantum mechanics is an incredibly successful theory, nobody knows what it means. Scientists now must confront its philosophical implications.

• Signs of ancient climate crisis as the Hittite empire unravelled

  February 8, 2023 Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver Nature

  An assessment of juniper tree-ring samples from central Turkey, together with other types of dating analysis, demonstrate that a devastating drought in 1198–1196 BC contributed to the end of the Hittite empire.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Severe multi-year drought coincident with Hittite collapse around 1198–1196 BC

  February 8, 2023 Sturt W. Manning, Cindy Kocik, Brita Lorentzen, and Jed P. Sparks Nature

  The potential of climate change to substantially alter human history is a pressing concern, but the specific effects of different types of climate change remain unknown. This question can be addressed using palaeoclimatic and archaeological data.

• The hunt for dark matter: The universe's mysterious gravitational glue

  February 8, 2023 Michael Brooks New Scientist

  In pursuit of dark matter, researchers are doing everything from burying vats of xenon deep underground to sending a balloon floating above the Antarctic. When will their creativity pay off?

• Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy

  February 8, 2023 Melissa Cain Travis Evolution News & Science Today

• Video

  Design Patterns in the Human Body

  February 7, 2023 Discovery Science YouTube

  In the book, Your Designed Body, systems engineer Steve Laufmann and physician Howard Glicksman explore this extraordinary system of thousands of ingenious engineering solutions that impact your heart, your lungs, your feet, your eyes and ears, ...

• Video

  God, Natural Law and the Crisis of Morality in the West

  February 7, 2023 Robert P. George YouTube

  Southern Seminary

• News Update/Commentary

  Brain ‘zips and unzips' information to perform skilled tasks

  February 7, 2023 University of Birmingham Science Daily

  The human brain prepares skilled movements such as playing the piano, competing in athletics, or dancing by ‘zipping and unzipping' information about the timing and order of movements ahead of the action being performed, a new study reveals.

• Nitrogen Fixation: No Evolution Here

  February 7, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  It’s “one of the most energetically challenging biochemical reactions in nature,” and it just appeared and never changed.

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Independent Evidence for the Preservation of Endogenous Bone Biochemistry in a Specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex

  February 7, 2023 Jennifer Anné, et al. Biology, v.12, n.2

• Proof that Neanderthals ate crabs is another ‘nail in the coffin’ for primitive cave dweller stereotypes

  February 7, 2023 Angharad Brewer Gillham Frontiers Science News

  Scientists studying archaeological remains at Gruta da Figueira Brava, Portugal, discovered that Neanderthals were harvesting shellfish to eat -- including brown crabs, where they preferred larger specimens and cooked them in fires.

• Have model organisms evolved too far?

  February 7, 2023 featured: Steve Busby University of Birmingham

  A model organism used in laboratories for the past 100 years has evolved so extensively that it may no longer be fit for purpose.

• News Update/Commentary

  A fossil fruit from California shows ancestors of coffee and potatoes survived cataclysm that killed the dinosaurs

  February 7, 2023 University of Kansas Science Daily

  The discovery of an 80-million-year-old fossil plant pushes back the known origins of lamiids to the Cretaceous, extending the record of nearly 40,000 species of flowering plants including modern-day staple crops like coffee, tomatoes, potatoes and mint.

• News Update/Commentary

  Surprises in sea turtle genes could help them adapt to a rapidly changing world

  February 7, 2023 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Science Daily

  Around 100 million years ago, a group of land-dwelling turtles took to the oceans, eventually evolving into the sea turtles we know today. However, the genetic foundations that have enabled them to thrive throughout the world have remained largely unknown

• Science as “Evidence for a Creator”?

  February 7, 2023 David Klinghoffer Evolution News & Science Today

  Meyer, Lennox, and Behe Discuss

• How Our Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities

  February 6, 2023 Charlie Wood Quanta Magazine

  Richard Feynman’s path integral is both a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy about how the world is. But physicists are still struggling to figure out how to use it, and what it means.

• Neandertals: Mighty Hunters before the Lord!

  February 6, 2023 Todd Wood Core Academy of Science

• Questioning cosmic inflation

  February 6, 2023 Avi Loeb iai News

  Rewriting the origins of the universe

• What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science

  February 6, 2023 Chris Stokel-Walker and Richard Van Noorden Nature

  Researchers are excited but apprehensive about the latest advances in artificial intelligence.

• Evolution and Christianity -- is there a conflict?

  February 6, 2023 Richard Buggs Table Talk

  Can you believe in creation and take evolutionary science seriously? How do they work together and are there conflicts? What about Adam and Eve?

• Peer-reviewed Paper

  Cleaner fish recognize self in a mirror via self-face recognition like humans

  February 6, 2023 Masanori Kohda, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

• Turkey–Syria earthquake: what scientists know

  February 6, 2023 Miryam Naddaf Nature

  Turkey and Syria’s buildings have always been vulnerable to earthquakes, but war has made things worse.

• Turkey and Syria devastated by earthquake

  February 6, 2023 Temblor

  A powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck southern Turkey, near the Syrian border. Numerous casualties have been reported, with more expected.

• Has Real Evolution Unfolded in Puerto Rican Lizards?

  February 6, 2023 Frank Sherwin Institute for Creation Research

• Mistaken Identity Embarrasses Evolutionists

  February 6, 2023 David F. Coppedge Creation-Evolution Headlines

  Anyone can make a mistake identifying a fossil, but Darwinism sometimes leads scientists to see what they want to see

• SETI: Inventing Minds to Find Minds

  February 6, 2023 David Coppedge Evolution News & Science Today

• News Update/Commentary

  How species partnerships evolve

  February 5, 2023 University of Pennsylvania Science Daily

  Biologists explored how symbiotic relationships between species evolve to become specific or general, cooperative or antagonistic.

• News Update/Commentary

  Study reveals new clues about how ‘Earth's thermostat' controls climate

  February 5, 2023 Penn State Science Daily

  Rocks, rain and carbon dioxide help control Earth's climate over thousands of years -- like a thermostat -- through a process called weathering. A new study may improve our understanding of how this thermostat responds as temperatures change.

• Is Dawkins 20-30 Years Behind?

  February 5, 2023 Uncommon Descent

  Denis Noble debates Richard Dawkins