Some of the earliest known dinosaurs to have walked the planet were considered to be small dinosaurs like the swift-footed Eoraptor. But researchers have discovered a new dinosaur-like fossil that may be even older. Called Nyasasaurus parringtoni, the specimen is thought to have existed 10 to 15 million years earlier than dinosaur fossils have previously […]
Archive for February, 2013
Flying fish fossil recovered
February 13th, 2013 
Riffin Chinese researchers have tracked the “exceptionally well-preserved fossils” to the Middle Triassic of China (235-242 million years ago). The Triassic period saw the re-establishment of ecosystems after the Permian mass extinction. The fossils represent new evidence that marine ecosystems re-established more quickly than previously thought. The Permian mass extinction had a bigger impact on the […]
Inoceramus : Stock Photo, World Fossil Society
February 13th, 2013 Riffin This Inoceramus specimen on limestone clump is from Cretaceous Trichy, India. Name: Inoceramus (Strong pot). Phonetic: In-o-cer-a-mus. Named By: James Sowerby – 1814. Classification: Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pteriomorphia, Praecardioida, Inoceramidae. Species: I. bellvuensis, I. biformis, I. comancheanus, I. dakotensis, I. perplexus, I. pictus, I. proximus, I. triangularis. Type: Filter feeder. Size: Largest specimen measures 1.87 meters. […]
Isotope Patterns in Ancient Volcanic Sulfur Tell Which Global Cooling Episodes Were Caused by Volcanic Eruptions
February 12th, 2013 Riffin Volcanoes are well known for cooling the climate. But just how much and when has been a bone of contention among historians, glaciologists and archeologists. Now a team of atmosphere chemists, from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Copenhagen, has come up with a way to say for sure which historic episodes […]
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No Comments »New NASA Mission to Help Us Better Estimate Asteroid Impact Hazard
February 11th, 2013 Riffin Every year, sensors designed to detect nuclear explosions see harmless bursts in Earth’s upper atmosphere from the breakup of an asteroid a few yards across. Tiny asteroids are much more numerous than big ones, so destructive hits to Earth are very rare. However, because of their potential for devastation, NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) observations program […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Asteroid Impact Hazard, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Excavation Set to Shed New Light On London’s Victorian Past
February 10th, 2013 Riffin From a clay smoking pipe to Neolithic flint, a 19th Century garden has been revealing some of its secrets to an archaeological team from London’s Kingston University. Dr Helen Wickstead spotted an opportunity to delve below the surface of an area of land at the University’s Seething Wells hall of residence after looking at historic […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Evacuation, RiffinT Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Victorian Past, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Most Comprehensive Tree of Life Shows Placental Mammal Diversity Exploded After Age of Dinosaurs
February 8th, 2013 Riffin An international team of scientists including University of Florida researchers has generated the most comprehensive tree of life to date on placental mammals, which are those bearing live young, including bats, rodents, whales and humans. Appearing February 7 in the journal Science, the study details how researchers used both genetic and physical traits to reconstruct […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: mammal, placental ancestor, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Sense of Smell of Tyrannosaurus
February 7th, 2013 Riffin Although we know quite a bit about the lifestyle of dinosaur; where they lived, what they ate, how they walked, not much was known about their sense of smell, until now. Scientists at the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum are providing new insight into the sense of smell of carnivorous dinosaurs and […]
Museum of Somerset marine insect fossil study starts
February 6th, 2013 Riffin Most of the fossils from Strawberry Bank were found in this package found in the Taunton collection A collection of 3,000 marine fossils “rediscovered” at the Museum of Somerset two years ago has now been curated by fossil experts. The fossils were excavated by the geologist Charles Moore during the 1800s at Strawberry Bank near […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: marine insect fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society 2 Comments »New Kind of Extinct Flying Reptile Discovered
February 5th, 2013 Riffin A new kind of pterosaur, a flying reptile from the time of the dinosaurs, has been identified by scientists from the Transylvanian Museum Society in Romania, the University of Southampton in the UK and the Museau Nacional in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The fossilised bones come from the Late Cretaceous rocks of Sebeş-Glod in the […]
