Grandfather turtle, Pappochelys Photo credit: Rainer Schoch. Source: Smithsonian.com |
These examples of what creationists tell us don't exist - transitional fossils - are getting so frequent that I'm wondering whether it's worth writing yet another blog about yet another one being found, or whether it would be simpler to just publish a weekly list of the latest.
But, having almost certainly just shed any creationists who might have had the courage to read the blog at all with that shocking title, I'll carry on, as those interested in truth might find it interesting.
This example, published in Nature yesterday, is of a 240 million year-old fossil from Germany which is