Scientists from the universities of Bath and Lincoln have revealed new findings on the evolutionary relationships and structure of priapulids — a group of carnivorous mud-dwelling worms living in shallow marine waters. The research, carried out by evolutionary biologists Dr Matthew Wills, Dr Sylvain Gerber, Mr Martin Hughes (all University of Bath) and Dr Marcello […]
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Marine Worms Reveal the Deepest Evolutionary Patterns
October 10th, 2012 
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No Comments »Unique Ancient Spider Attack Preserved in Amber
October 9th, 2012 riffin Researchers have found what they say is the only fossil ever discovered of a spider attack on prey caught in its web — a 100 million-year-old snapshot of an engagement frozen in time. The extraordinarily rare fossils are in a piece of amber that preserved this event in remarkable detail, an action that took place […]
Which Came First, Shells or No Shells? Contrary Story of Ancient Mollusk
October 8th, 2012 Riffin fossil unearthed in Great Britain may end a long-running debate about the mollusks, one of life’s most diverse invertebrate groups: Which evolved first, shelled forms like clams and snails, or their shell-less, worm-like relatives? The small new fossil, found in marine rocks along the English-Welsh border, provides the best fossil evidence yet that the simpler […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Shell Of Mollusk, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Violent Life of Monogenetic Volcanoes
October 7th, 2012 riffin A new study in the journal Geology is shedding light on the brief but violent lives of maar-diatreme volcanoes, which erupt when magma and water meet in an explosive marriage below the surface of Earth. Maar-diatremes belong to a family of volcanoes known as monogenetic volcanoes. These erupt just once before dying, though some eruptions last for […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Monogenetic Volcanoes, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Flexibility along the Neck of the Neogene Terror Bird Andalgalornis steulleti (Aves Phorusrhacidae)
October 6th, 2012 riffin Neck length and neck posture are both relevant to give the appropriate position of the head during all kinds of behaviors . For activities such as mating or defense the neck has the ability to perform more complex movements linked to the cervical morphology. The head centre of gravity over the feet is deeply correlated with the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Andalgalornis steulleti, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society 6 Comments »Bizarre Species of Miniature Dinosaur Identified
October 5th, 2012 Riffin Not every dinosaur grew up to be a mighty predator like Tyrannosaurus rex or a hulking vegan like Apatosaurus. A few stayed small, and some of the smallest dinosaurs that ever lived — tiny enough to nip at your heels — were among the first to spread across the planet more than 200 million years […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Heterodontosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »The color of feathers on dinosaurs
October 4th, 2012 riffin The color of some feathers on dinosaurs and early birds has been identified for the first time, reports a paper published in Nature this week. The research found that the theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had simple bristles – precursors of feathers – in alternate orange and white rings down its tail, and that the early bird Confuciusornis had […]
The color of feathers on dinosaurs
October 4th, 2012 Riffin The color of some feathers on dinosaurs and early birds has been identified for the first time, reports a paper published in Nature this week. The research found that the theropod dinosaur Sinosauropteryx had simple bristles – precursors of feathers – in alternate orange and white rings down its tail, and that the early bird Confuciusornis had […]
Origin Of Claws Seen In Fossil 390 Million Years Old
October 3rd, 2012 riffin A missing link in the evolution of the front claw of living scorpions and horseshoe crabs was identified with the discovery of a 390 million-year-old fossil by researchers at Yale and the University of Bonn, Germany. The specimen, named Schinderhannes bartelsi, was found fossilized in slate from a quarry near Bundenbach in Germany, a site […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Schinderhannes bartelsi, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »A mysterious seed fern, Lepidopteris, discovered from the Upper Permian of China
October 2nd, 2012 riffin Recently, a mysterious seed fern, Lepidopteris baodensis sp. nov., dating to more than 251 million years ago (Ma), was discovered at the Baijiagou of Baode, Shanxi, China, from the Upper Permian Sunjiagou Formation. This discovery completely changed the understanding of the stratigraphic distribution of the genus Lepidopteris in China and promoted the taxonomic study of late Paleozoic plants. Since […]
