Archive for August, 2017

The birth and death of a tectonic plate

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Several hundred miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, a small tectonic plate called the Juan de Fuca is slowly sliding under the North American continent. This subduction has created a collision zone with the potential to generate huge earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis, which happen when faulted rock abruptly […]

WFS News: Maiopatagium furculiferum,First winged mammals from the Jurassic period?

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Two 160 million-year-old mammal fossils discovered in China show that the forerunners of mammals in the Jurassic Period evolved to glide and live in trees. With long limbs, long hand and foot fingers, and wing-like membranes for tree-to-tree gliding, Maiopatagium furculiferum and Vilevolodon diplomylos are the oldest known […]

WFS News: Well-preserved 110 MYO dinosaur found in Canada

@ WFS,World Fossil Society ,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev AN EXTRAORDINARILY well-preserved 110-million-year-old dinosaur found in a mine pit in Canada now has a name and evidence of a troubled past, researchers said Thursday. With fossilized skin and scales, the dragon-like creature is actually a new kind of nodosaur, coined Borealopelta markmitchelli, after the museum […]

WFS News: Montsechia vidalii ,First Flower on Earth?

@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Three was the magic number for the very first flowering plant. The largest study into their early evolution has concluded that its flowers probably had petal-like tepals and pollen-bearing stamens arranged in layered whorls of three. It bore similarities with magnolias, buttercups and laurels – but was […]

WFS News: Whether sills caused mass extinction?

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A study by a researcher in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences offers new clues to what may have triggered the world’s most catastrophic extinction, nearly 252 million years ago. James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an […]