New research into a missing link in climatology shows that the Earth was not overcome by a greenhouse period when dinosaurs dominated, but experienced rapid fluctuations in temperature and sea level change that resulted in a balance of the global carbon cycle. The study is being published in the March issue of Geology. “Most people […]
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Story Of Prehistoric Climates From Fossil Wood
August 26th, 2012 
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No Comments »Debate on Dinosaur life
August 25th, 2012 riffin INTRODUCTION Some people think dinosaurs were cold-blooded; other people think dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Lots of scientists have studied the problem. There is information about posture, bone structure, and brain/body size. This essay will consider the evidence and try to come to a reasonable conclusion. THE BIG DEBATE They were reptiles, so they must have been […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: dinodsaur brain, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »The Origin and Initial Rise of Pelagic Cephalopods in the Ordovician
August 25th, 2012 riffin During the Ordovician the global diversity increased dramatically at family, genus and species levels. Partially the diversification is explained by an increased nutrient, and phytoplankton availability in the open water. Cephalopods areamong the top predators of todays open oceans. Their Ordovician occurrences, diversity evolution and abundance patternpotentially provides information on the evolution of the pelagic food […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ordovician cephalopods, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Ocean Floor Sediments May Be Window on World’s Warmer Future
August 24th, 2012 riffin Analysis of seafloor sediment reveals lower oxygen levels in the ocean when the planet heated up 55.9 million years ago Digging into our planet’s past could help us prepare for a hot future. One dramatic spike in historical temperatures, the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), occurred around 55.9 million years ago. That time was marked by […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ocean floor, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Ancient fossils reveal how the mollusc got its teeth
August 23rd, 2012 riffin The radula sounds like something from a horror movie — a conveyor belt lined with hundreds of rows of interlocking teeth. In fact, radulas are found in the mouths of most molluscs, from the giant squid to the garden snail. Now, a “prototype” radula found in 500-million-year-old fossils studied by University of Toronto graduate student […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Mollusc Teeth, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Protection of Fossil Site By World Fossil Society
August 23rd, 2012 riffin CHENNAI: A writ plea has been made in the Madras High Court to declare Kolakkanatham fossil site in Ariyalur district as a paleontological heritage site. A vacation bench comprising Justices S Rajeswaran and KBK Vasuki, before which the public interest writ petition from Rajashree of Kalamassery in Kerala came up for hearing on Wednesday, ordered […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: kolakkanatham, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Green River Formation
August 22nd, 2012 riffin Historical Background In 1856 Dr. John Evans collected the first fossil fish known to science from the Green River Formation. The Knightia eocaena was described by Dr. Joseph Leidy in Philadelphia. Although fossils had been reported from the area, this was the first described. And so begins the story of one of the greatest fossil sites known […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Green River Formation, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?
August 21st, 2012 riffin A series of monumental volcanic eruptions in India may have killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, not a meteor impact in the Gulf of Mexico. The eruptions, which created the gigantic Deccan Traps lava beds of India, are now the prime suspect in the most famous and persistent paleontological murder mystery, say scientists who […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Deccan Trap, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Dinosaurian Soft Tissues Interpreted as Bacterial Biofilms
August 20th, 2012 riffin A scanning electron microscope survey was initiated to determine if the previously reported findings of “dinosaurian soft tissues” could be identified in situ within the bones. The results obtained allowed a reinterpretation of the formation and preservation of several types of these “tissues” and their content. Mineralized and non-mineralized coatings were found extensively in the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinisaur soft tissue, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Demoting a dinosaur
August 20th, 2012 riffin Azendohsaurus just shed its dinosaur affiliation. A careful new analysis of A. madagaskarensis—this time based on the entire skull rather than on just teeth and jaws—aligns this 230-million-year-old animal with a different and very early branch on the reptile evolutionary tree. Many aspects of Azendohsaurus are far more primitive than previously assumed, which in turn means that its plant-eating […]
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