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Ice Age Footprints Step on Radiocarbon Results - Dec 22, 2022
/article/ice-age-footprints-radiocarbonBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - Radiocarbon dating seems like solid science. It appeals as a kind of time machine, providing a clear peephole to peer into the past. However, a new debate over ancient human footprints from New Mexico shows one way that this supposed peephole can...
Scientific Debates Reveal Hidden Story Beneath Ape Fossil - Oct 10, 2022
/article/toumai-skull-fossilBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - In 2002, Professor Michel Brunet of the University of Poitiers, France, described a tiny fossil ape skull nicknamed Toumaï as an upright-walking human ancestor.1 This ancient skull and other possibly associated partial bones from Chad belong to...
Fresh Dinosaur Tracks Revive Rankling Mysteries - Sep 19, 2022
/article/paluxy-tracks-revealedBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - Droughts across north Texas dried the Paluxy River bed, famous for its dinosaur footprints. Ordinarily, the dinosaur tracks lie buried beneath water-covered mud, but dry conditions enabled workers to remove the mire that had long covered them at...
Scientists Reach for Evolution's Replacement - Aug 25, 2022
/article/ditch-evolutionBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - Most people say that evolution is true, so why do a growing number of scientists doubt it? These skeptics don’t question evolution’s premise that nature alone is somehow responsible for crafting creatures out of stardust. The debate...
The Bobtail Squid's Living Cloaking Device - Jun 30, 2022
/article/bobtail-squids-cloaking-deviceBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) live among the sand flats and sea plants of the Hawaiian archipelago. Along with other bobtail squid, these lime-size ocean dwellers glow in the dark. The ability to glow in the dark has multiple...
Anthropologist Wows Scientists - Jun 27, 2022
/article/sebida-lecture-desilvaBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - Jeremy DeSilva of Dartmouth College gave an evening presentation at the end of this year’s week-long American Society of Mass Spectrometry conference. As a human fossil expert, DeSilva’s lecture discussed a different topic than what...
What's So Sad About This Dino's Disease? - Mar 3, 2022
/article/so-sad-about-dino-diseaseBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - Scientists described the first evidence of a possible respiratory illness in a fossil. The common soil fungus Aspergillis can infect birds and reptiles today. The resulting disease, also called aspergillosis, causes the trachea’s soft tissues...
Dragon Art Defies Millions of Years - Feb 28, 2022
/article/dragon-art-defies-millions-of-yearsBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - Of all the displays in the 30,000 square feet of the ICR Discovery Center for Science & Earth History in Dallas, the Dragon Encounters exhibit has become some visitors’ favorite. It shows ancient art depicting what look like extinct...
"Simple Yet Elegant" Design in Fruit Flies - Feb 24, 2022
/article/simple-elegant-design-fruit-fliesBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - Graduate student Shiuan-Tze Wu led a study of some ingenious organization into the odor-sensing cells of fruit flies. He and his collaborators at the La Jolla campus of UC San Diego found that the odor-detector cells in the insects’ antennae...
Remembering Dr. Kevin Anderson - Jan 21, 2022
/article/remembering-dr-kevin-andersonBrian Thomas, Ph.D. - Dr. Kevin Anderson went to be with the Lord on January 16, 2022. He served the people of the Lord’s Kingdom with a lifetime of good scientific research. He earned a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Kansas State University, which qualified him for...