Get Answers: Fossils
What about Archaeoraptor and Archaeopteryx, which some evolutionists claim are ‘missing links’ between dinosaurs and birds? Does the fossil record show that dinosaurs evolved into birds?
- See Q&A: Dinosaurs
Is there fossil evidence that asteroid impacts have caused past extinctions?
- Dinosaur demise theory, version #451
- The extinction of the dinosaurs
- Focus - Crater Linked to Dinosaur Demise
- Focus - Don’t blame the asteroid
- Focus - Now it’s volcanoes killing the dinosaurs
- "Mr. Ice Age" solves woolly mammoth mystery
- Paleocene dinosaurs and the reinforcement syndrome (Technical)
Have any human fossils been found? If humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, have any of their fossils been found together?
- See Q&A: Anthropology
- See Q&A: Dinosaurs
How were fossils made? Does it take a long time for fossils to form?
- A ‘165 million year’ surprise
- An Australian Fossil Insect Bed Resulting from Cataclysmic Destruction (off-site, ICR Impact)
- Buried Birth
- Dating dilemma: fossil wood in "ancient" sandstone
- Dead whales: telling tales?
- Dino dinner hard to swallow?
- Dinosaur National Monument: Jurassic Park Or Jurassic Jumble? (off-site, ICR Imapct)
- Double tragedies frozen in lime
- Exploding Fish, Evidence for Rapid Burial (Semi-technical)
- Fish preservation, fish coprolites and the Green River Formation (Technical)
- Folded ferns
- Fossil Jelly Fish in Australia
- Fossil reptiles on the Russian platform
- The fossils shout creation
- Geological conflict
- Green River Blues
- How did millions of mammoth fossils form?
- How fast?
- How well do paleontologists know fossil distributions?
- In the footsteps of giants
- The Karoo vertebrate non-problem
- Lamellibranch shells—evidence of catastrophe
- Lily of the sea
- Radioactive "dating" in conflict!
- Rapid fossils
- Sea Dragons (off-site, ICR Impact)
- Startling evidence for Noah’s Flood
- Stumping old-age dogma
- Tarawera’s Night of Terror (Rapid Fossilization)
- Thundering burial
- Two Fighting Dinosaurs?
- A visual tour—with commentary—of the new Evolving Planet exhibit in Chicago
- When did the fossils "die"?
What other evidence shows that fossils don’t take long periods of time to form?
- Amazing stone bears of Yorkshire
- Bell-ieve it: rapid rock formation
- Fascinating fossil fence-wire
- ‘Fossil’ hat
- Sparking interest in rapid rocks
Is there any type of order in the fossil record?
- Does the geologic
column exist anywhere on Earth?
[TJ article by John Woodmorappe, published on creationist True Origins site, refuting claims by the renegade former young-earth creationist (now theistic evolutionist), Glenn Morton] - Fish origins scaled back
- Fossil platypus tooth in South America
- The Fossil Record: Becoming More Random All the Time (Technical)
- Fossils: do they become more complex?
- The Fossils say what?
- The Grand Canyon
- How Well Do Paleontologists Know Fossil Distributions? (Semi-Technical)
- Platypus tooth bites hard into long-held beliefs
What about ‘hardgrounds’?
- Are hardgrounds really a challenge to the global Flood? (Semi-Technical, response to critic)
- Hardgrounds and other fossils
Mammoths: What exactly are they, when did they live, how did they die, how come there are so many frozen specimens, and can they be cloned back into existence?
- See Mammoth Q&A
Does the fossil record of the horse prove evolution?
Are there really missing links? Is this a problem for particles-to-people evolution?
- Are there any Transitional Fossils? (Luther Sunderland’s interview of leading museum paleontologists)
- The bat, the shrew, and the impossible ‘brew’
- The fossil record of ‘early’ tetrapods: evidence of a major evolutionary transition? (Technical)
- Gone fishin' for a missing link?
- Micro-primates? Heelbone hype!
- Livoniana—Have they (finally!) found a missing link?
- The ‘oldest known fly’—a lesson in caution
- Pterosaurs and bats have always been pterosaurs and bats
- Refutation of Boyce Rensberger’s anti-creationist Washington Post article
- Sharks and rays: fish with no ancestors
- Something fishy about lungs
- Snakes with legs? A preliminary reply
- Yet another ‘missing link’ fails to qualify (Acanthostega, Eusthenopteron, Ichthyostega)
What about plant evolution?
- Did plants evolve?
- Fossil plants
- Kingdom of the plants: defying evolution
- “Non-evolution” of the appearance of mitochondria and plastids in eukaryotes: challenges to endosymbiotic theory (Technical)
- Orchids: witness to the Creator
- Shining light on the evolution of photosynthesis (Technical)
- Startling plant discovery presents problems for evolution
Does the fossil record of whales show that they evolved from land mammals?
- Another whale of a tale: creationists without a "whimper"?
- Overselling of Whale Evolution (Semi-Technical, True Origins site)
- To Make a Tail for a Whale
- Whale evolution? (response to PBS Evolution series)
- The World of Whales
