Archive for April, 2019

WFS News: Plate Tectonics new evidences…

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T sajeev,Russel T Sajeev When the landmass that is now the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia about 50 million years ago, the collision changed the configuration of the continents, the landscape, global climate and more. Now a team of Princeton University scientists has identified one more effect: the oxygen in the world’s […]

WFS News: ‘Giant lion’ fossil found in Kenya museum drawer

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Of all the places you could imagine discovering a giant meat-eating mammal, a drawer is probably not one. But a pair of researchers from Ohio University have done just that. Matthew Borths was studying fossils at the Nairobi National Museum in Kenya when he decided to have a […]

WFS News: Sollasina cthulhu, The ‘Monstrous’ ancient fossil

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An incredibly well-preserved fossil unearthed in Herefordshire has been named after a hideous creature from fiction: Sollasina cthulhu. Although no larger than 3cm wide, its array of tentacles reminded the team who discovered it of the monster Cthulhu created by American author H.P. Lovecraft. A gigantic entity worshipped by cultists, the […]

WFS News:The First Definite Lambeosaurine Bone From the Liscomb Bonebed of the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, Alaska, United States

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The First Definite Lambeosaurine Bone From the Liscomb Bonebed of the Upper Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, Alaska, United States Ryuji Takasaki,Anthony R. Fiorillo, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Ronald S. Tykoski & Paul J. McCarthy  Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 5384 (2019) The Prince Creek Formation of Alaska, a rock unit that represents lower coastal plain and […]