Phacops rana, enrolled specimens collected from the Windom Shale by Dan Cooper
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Penn Dixie (Hamburg Natural History Society ) Fossils
November 16th, 2012 
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No Comments »Tetradactyl Footprints of an Unknown Affinity Theropod Dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Morocco
November 15th, 2012 riffin In this work the study surface where the footprints were registered was examined carefully. The study surface may or may be not the tracking surface (the surface where the dinosaur stepped) . All the surfaces with true footprints in Iouaridène syncline have been found in the hard layers (red siliceous levels) with mud cracks . The undertracks […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tetradactyl Footprints, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »2011 Virginia Earthquake Triggered Landslides at Extraordinary Distances
November 14th, 2012 Riffin The 2011 Mineral, Virginia M-5.8 earthquake was felt over an extraordinarily large area. A new study details landslides triggered by the earthquake at distances four times greater and over an area 20 times larger than previously The study, to be published in the December issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America(BSSA), describes physical […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Land slide, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Greenland Rocks Provide Evidence of Earth Formation Process
November 12th, 2012 riffin Rocks dating back 3.4 billion years from south-west Greenland’s Isua mountain range have yielded valuable information about the structure of Earth during its earliest stages of development. In these rocks, which witnessed the first billion years of Earth’s history, a French-Danish team led by researchers from the ‘Magmas and Volcanoes’ Laboratory (CNRS / Université Blaise […]
New Computational Method for Timing the Tree of Life
November 11th, 2012 riffin With its deeply embedded roots, sturdy trunk and dense profusion of branches, the Tree of Life is a structure of nearly unfathomable complexity and beauty. While major strides have been made to establish the evolutionary hierarchy encompassing every living species, the project is still in its infancy. At Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, Sudhir Kumar […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Timing the Tree of Life, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Xenoceratops: Canada’s Newest Horned Dinosaur
November 10th, 2012 Riffin Scientists have named a new species of horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) from Alberta, Canada. Xenoceratops foremostensis (Zee-NO-Sare-ah-tops) was identified from fossils originally collected in 1958. Approximately 20 feet long and weighing more than 2 tons, the newly identified plant-eating dinosaur represents the oldest known large-bodied horned dinosaur from Canada. Research describing the new species is published in the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society, Xenoceratops No Comments »Mohorovičić Discontinuity
November 6th, 2012 riffin What is the Mohorovičić Discontinuity? The Mohorovicic Discontinuity, or “Moho”, is the boundary between the crust and the mantle. The red line in the drawing below shows its location. In geology the word “discontinuity” is used for a surface at which seismic waves change velocity. One of these surfaces exists at an average depth of […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Mohorovičić Discontinuity, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Mass Extinction Study Provides Lessons for Modern World
November 5th, 2012 Riffin The Cretaceous Period of Earth history ended with a mass extinction that wiped out numerous species, most famously the dinosaurs. A new study now finds that the structure of North American ecosystems made the extinction worse than it might have been. Researchers at the University of Chicago, the California Academy of Sciences and the Field […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Mass ExtinctionmWFS, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, world fossil society No Comments »MOUNT ST HELENS
November 4th, 2012 riffin Mount St Helens is located in the Cascade mountain range in the state of Washington in the United States and is famous for its devastating 1980 eruption, which killed 57 people. Among the dead were a geologist and others who were monitoring thevolcano. The victims closest to the eruption were killed almost instantly when an earthquake triggered […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: MOUNT ST HELENS .WFS, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, world fossil society No Comments »Were Dinosaurs Destined to Be Big? Testing Cope’s Rule
November 3rd, 2012 Riffin In the evolutionary long run, small critters tend to evolve into bigger beasts — at least according to the idea attributed to paleontologist Edward Cope, now known as Cope’s Rule. Using the latest advanced statistical modeling methods, a new test of this rule as it applies dinosaurs shows that Cope was right — sometimes. “For […]
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