An international team of researchers, including Dr. Anthony Kemp from The University of Western Australia, believes they have found out and their work is published in Nature today. Dr. Kemp, an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in UWA’s School of Earth and Environment, said as far as we know, Earth is the only planet in […]

A layer of partially molten rock about 22 to 75 miles underground can’t be the only mechanism that allows continents to gradually shift their position over millions of years, according to a NASA-sponsored researcher. The result gives insight into what allows plate tectonics — the movement of Earth’s crustal plates — to occur. “This melt-rich […]

Ten Million Years Before Dinosaurs Paleontologists announced the discovery of a dinosaur-like animal – one that shared many characteristics with dinosaurs but fell just outside of the dinosaur family tree – living 10 million years earlier than the oldest known dinosaurs. The researchers conclude that dinosaurs and other close relatives such as pterosaurs (flying reptiles) […]

Mountain belts on Earth are most commonly formed by collision of one or more tectonic plates. The process of collision, uplift, and subsequent erosion of long mountain belts often produces profound global effects, including changes in regional and global climates, as well as the formation of important economic resources, including oil and gas reservoirs and […]

Could dinosaurs have been overgrown squirrels instead of overgrown lizards? The possibility arose after scientists found the fossil of a squirrel-tail dinosaur that suggests dinosaurs were “feathered,” National Geographic News reported. National Geographic said the “exquisitely preserved” 150-million-year-old fossil was unearthed from a Bavarian limestone quarry, and was dubbed Sciurumimus albersdoerferi —a nod to Scirius, the […]

A big find became a big loss after vandals smashed rare dinosaur fossils near the Red Willow River in northern Alberta. Dr. Phil Bell is a palaeontologist with the Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative (PCDI). He, along with a group of experts from the University of Alberta and volunteers, had spent a week — beginning June […]

A team of British and Canadian scientists probing a famous fossil site in Newfoundland and Labrador has discovered traces of some of the earliest animal remains on Earth — a 579-million-year-old nest of petrified “babies” born to a primitive, fern-shaped marine organism known as a rangeomorph and then promptly buried in ash from a primordial […]

Riffin T Sajeev,the founder of World fossil society  And his brother Russel T Sajeev got awarded as one among 120 talents of India.

An 18-member international team of researchers that includes James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Syria. According to the researchers, the material — which dates back nearly 13,000 years — was formed at temperatures of 1,700 […]