Scientific deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu sets a world new record by drilling down and obtains rock samples from deeper than 2,111 meters below the seafloor off Shimokita Peninsula of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the implementing organization for scientific expedition aboard theChikyu, announced this achievement on […]
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New World Drilling-Depth Record of Scientific Ocean Drilling
September 9th, 2012 
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No Comments »Fossil records ‘crab’ death march
September 8th, 2012 riffin The behaviour of an ancient horseshoe crab in its final moments before death has been captured in the fossil record. A 9.7m-long trackway was created around 150 million years ago when a horseshoe crab fell into a lagoon. The find is of interest because the fossil of the animal itself is present at the end of the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Mesolimulus walchi, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Darwinopterus: New flying Reptile
September 8th, 2012 riffin Researchers in China and the UK say they have discovered the fossils of a new type of flying reptile that lived more than 160 million years ago. The find is named Darwinopterus, after Charles Darwin. Experts say it provides the first clear evidence of a controversial idea called modular evolution. The 20 new fossils found in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Darwinopterus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Sinornithosaurus : Bird-like dinosaur was ‘venomous’
September 8th, 2012 riffin A bird-like dinosaur that prowled an ancient forest 125 million years ago used venom to subdue its prey, according to a new theory. Sinornithosaurus‘s upper teeth resemble those of “rear-fanged” snakes which bite their prey and channel venom into the wound.The dinosaur probably fed on the abundant birds which inhabited what is now north-east China.The […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Venomous dinosaur, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Oxygen Theory Of Mass Extinction Questioned By New Research Findings
September 7th, 2012 riffin Several theories have been proposed by scientists to explain the two mass extinction events which took place on the earth 250 and 200 million years ago. The Permian-Triassic catastrophe (250 million years ago) was the worst of all five of the mass extinction events to ever have befallen the earth. It eradicated almost 95% of […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Oxygen Theory, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »New Permian Fish Discovered in Brazil
September 6th, 2012 riffin Dr. Eliseu Vieira Dias of the State University of Western Paraná (UNIOESTE) has announced the discovery of a new species of deep-bodied fish that prowled ancient rivers and lakes in the South American part of Gondwana during Permian period. A fossil of Paranaichthys longianalis (E.V. Dias) A paper in the journal Zootaxa describes a new species […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Paranaichthys longianalis, Permian, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »When continents collide: A new twist to a 50 million-year-old tale
September 5th, 2012 riffin Fifty million years ago, India slammed into Eurasia, a collision that gave rise to the tallest landforms on the planet, the Himalaya Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau. India and Eurasia continue to converge today, though at an ever-slowing pace. University of Michigan geomorphologist and geophysicist Marin Clark wanted to know when this motion will end […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Himalaya, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Tibetan Plateau May Be Older Than Previously Thought
September 5th, 2012 riffin The growth of high topography on the Tibetan Plateau in Sichuan, China, began much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of geologists who looked at mountain ranges along the eastern edge of the plateau. The Indian tectonic plate began its collision with Asia between 55 and 50 million years ago, but “significant […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tibetan Plateau, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Plant-Eating Dinosaur Discovered in Antarctica
September 4th, 2012 riffin For the first time, the presence of large bodied herbivorous dinosaurs in Antarctica has been recorded. Until now, remains of sauropoda — one of the most diverse and geographically widespread species of herbivorous dinosaurs — had been recovered from all continental landmasses, except Antarctica. Dr. Ignacio Alejandro Cerda, from CONICET in Argentina, and his team’s […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Titanosaurs, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Listening To Rocks Helps Researchers Better Understand Earthquakes
September 3rd, 2012 riffin When Apollo punished King Midas by giving him donkey ears, only the king and his barber knew. Unable to keep a secret, the barber dug a hole, whispered into it, “King Midas has donkey ears,” and filled the hole. But plants sprouted from the hole, and with each passing breeze, shared the king’s secret. Earth, […]
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