Posts Tagged ‘Dinosaur’

WFS News: Newly discovered dinosaur, ‘Iani,’ was face of a changing planet

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species’ “last gasp” during a period when Earth’s warming climate forced massive changes to global dinosaur populations. The specimen, named Iani smithi after Janus, the two-faced Roman god of change, was an early ornithopod, a group of […]

WFS News: Newly discovered dinosaur, ‘Iani,’ was face of a changing planet

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species’ “last gasp” during a period when Earth’s warming climate forced massive changes to global dinosaur populations. The specimen, named Iani smithi after Janus, the two-faced Roman god of change, was an early ornithopod, a group of […]

WFS News: Scientists claim they’ve found a perfectly preserved dinosaur fossil killed when the mass extinction asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Athira Scientists say that the perfectly preserved leg of a Thescelosaurus dinosaur, complete with scaly skin, can be dated back to the mass extinction event because of the presence of debris from the impact, the BBC said. It is widely believed that when the 7.5 mile-wide asteroid, approximately the size of […]

WFS News: Evidence of preserved collagen in an Early Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaur revealed by synchrotron FTIR microspectroscopy

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WFS News: 115-million-year-old fossil of new dinosaur species in Brazil

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A team of Brazilian researchers announced on Friday the discovery of a 115-million-year-old fossil belonging to a previously unknown species of dinosaur in the northeastern state of Ceara. The “Aratasaurus museunacionali” is a previously unknown species of the medium-sized theropods, meaning it had hollow bones and three-toed limbs. According to […]

WFS News: ‘Dineobellator notohesperus’ ,dinosaur with nasty gouge mark on claw

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev About 70 million years ago, a cousin of Velociraptor got in a brawl with a larger predator that left it with a nasty rib injury. But this dinosaur, a feathered hypercarnivore, lived to tell the tale, as its rib showed signs of healing, a new study finds. The newfound species, dubbed Dineobellator […]

WFS News: Cloning a dinosaur from ancient DNA are pretty much zero

@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Bad news, Jurassic Park fans — the odds of scientists cloning a dinosaur from ancient DNA are pretty much zero. That’s because DNA breaks down over time and isn’t stable enough to stay intact for millions of years. And while proteins, the molecules in all living things […]

Rare fossil bird deepens mystery of avian extinctions

During the late Cretaceous period, more than 65 million years ago, birds belonging to hundreds of different species flitted around the dinosaurs and through the forests as abundantly as they flit about our woods and fields today. But after the cataclysm that wiped out most of the dinosaurs, only one group of birds remained: the […]

New species of ‘missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds identified

Known as the ‘Icon of Evolution’ and ‘the missing link’ between dinosaurs and birds, Archaeopteryx has become one of the most famous fossil discoveries in Palaeontology. Now, as part of an international team of scientists, researchers at The University of Manchester have identified a new species of Archaeopteryx that is closer to modern birds in […]

WFS News: Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa

@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A Giant Dinosaur from the Earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the Transition to Quadrupedality in Early Sauropodomorphs A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tonnes and stood about four metres […]