I have always had a had a difficult time with the use of "Icthyosaur."

I mean, come on.."icthys" is Greek for fish! Of course when you are a big bad-ass marine reptile some taxonomist just had to steal the prefix for reptilian use. Enough word games.

Icthypod? Amphisaur?. Nope. The fossil's existence was already known and named well nigh.

I am sure that this transitional form between terrestrial and marine reptiles will do for reptilia what Tiktaalik did to bridge the divide between fishes and tetrapods.

Well, Tiktaalik did nothing to convince the irrational mind to accept naturalistic evolution. C lenticarpus will surely have the same fate.

Certain religious belief systems are not only demonstrably in error, but are injurious to the rest of us that would like to be good stewards of the earth.

The fact that we have even the diversity in the fossil record that we have yet seen astonishes me. This needn't have been so.

Every time evolutionary science offers up an arrow that points toward greater understanding, certain segments of society clutch their feeble shields and hide behind them.