Take on the burden of proof? OK! The paleontological facts are as follows from those who are actually searching for the observable evidence!
From an article dated Feb 19, 2013: ”Evolutionary stasis is an alternative scientific interpretation to the widely accepted Neo-Darwinism. It means that most species show little evolutionary change through history, instead, evolution occurs more abruptly and it can result in one species becoming two different species. The theory originated among paleontologists who study fossils. They found that (no intermediate forms of fossils exist).” My Emphasis on the last sentence!
https://phys.org/news/2013-02-species-sudden.html
Jeffrey H. Schwartz PhD, an American physical anthropologist and professor of biological anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, who teaches with an evolutionary perspective! (Sudden Origins): p. 89
"Given that evolution, according to Darwin, was in a continual state of motion, with ongoing but slow and gradual change accruing over long periods of time, it followed logically that the fossil record should be rife with examples of transitional forms leading from the less to more evolved" "fossils were assessed in terms of whether they validated Darwin's evolutionary predictions, a clear picture of slow, gradual evolution, with smooth transitions and transformations from fossils of one period to another, was not forthcoming Instead of filling the gaps in the fossil record with so-called missing links, most paleontologists found themselves facing a situation in which there were only gaps in the fossil record, with no evidence of transformational evolutionary intermediates between documented fossil species."