Changing the way you look at the world
News reports in March 2019 featured an enormous kauri tree (Agathis australis) unearthed at New Zealand’s Ngawha geothermal power station site some 180 km north-north west of Auckland (just 5 km east of Kaikohe).1 In February 2019, it was found … Continued
Here are two examples of fossilized ripples preserved on the sandstone layers up Kellys Knob, just north of Kununurra, Western Australia. There are many examples on the surfaces of the rocks. These ripples indicate that the sediment was deposited from … Continued
The remarkable whale fossils found in the desert in Chile are in the news again (e.g. BBC News) following a paper published in Proceedings B of the Royal Society, by Nicholas Pyenson and 13 other authors.1 These whales are one … Continued
The City of Gosford, 70 km north of Sydney, Australia, is hosting an exhibition of plant and animal fossils typical of species linked to the sandstone formations of the area. The exhibition allows people to see some of the finds … Continued
After construction workers dug up fossils of crocodiles, fish, frogs, shells, and plants at Geebung, a northern suburb of Brisbane, staff from the Queensland Museum began collecting and research. Within weeks they organized a press conference at the site to … Continued
Overpass construction at Geebung, a northern Brisbane suburb, has dug up fossils of crocodiles, frogs, fish, shells and plants, buried in the last stages of Noah’s Flood, about 4,500 years ago.1 A piling rig recovered the fossils from a layer … Continued
Recently, I received the following interesting and encouraging message from K.A. in Northern Ireland: About 9 months ago, I received a phone call from a man I had visited in one of the counties here about 5 or 6 years … Continued
Fossils of 80 baleen whales were uncovered in a desert in Chile last week, catching the attention of the media around the world. It is a spectacular and mysterious find. Why did so many die? What buried them so quickly? … Continued
Bioturbation is the stirring of sediment by burrowing organisms such as worms, crabs and shellfish. Their feeding and burrowing disturbs the bedding and lamination fabric in the sediment, and with time destroys its structure. Geologist Carl Froede reported, in … Continued
It is two and a half months since the tetrapod tracks found in Poland have upturned the neat fish-to-tetrapod transition that has been so popular for promoting evolution. This morning, there was still no word on the Wikipedia entry for … Continued