Fifty-six million years ago, Earth experienced an exceptional episode of global warming. In a very short time on a geological scale, within 10,000 to 20,000 years, the average temperature increased by 5 to 8 degrees, only returning to its original level a few hundred thousand years later. Based on the analysis of sediments from the […]
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Global warming: Worrying lessons from the past
September 11th, 2018 
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No Comments »Morelladon beltrani: New Sail-Backed Dinosaur Species Discovered in Spain
December 19th, 2015 Riffin A new species of ornithopod dinosaur has been discovered in Spain dating back 125 million years to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous epoch.At roughly 20 feet (6 m) in length and 8 feet (2.5 m) high, the new species – scientifically named Morelladon beltrani – was a relatively large dinosaur.The dinosaur’s incomplete skeleton […]
Extinct 3-horned palaeomerycid ruminant found in Spain
December 8th, 2015 Riffin The extinct three-horned palaeomerycid ruminant, Xenokeryx amidalae, found in Spain, may be from the same clade as giraffes, according to a study published December 2, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Israel M. Sánchez from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, and colleagues. Palaeomerycids, now extinct, were strange three-horned Eurasian Miocene […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 3-horned, Extinct, palaeomerycid, Riffin T Sajeev, ruminant, Russel T Sajeev, Spain, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Fossil Remains Reveal New Species of Marine Fish from 408 Million Years Ago in Teruel, Spain
June 4th, 2013 Riffin Researchers from the University of Valencia and the Natural History Museum of Berlin have studied the fossilised remains of scales and bones found in Teruel, Spain, and the south of Zaragoza, ascertaining that they belong to a new fish species called Machaeracanthus goujeti that lived in that area of the peninsula during the Devonian period. […]
