Ancient DNA recovered from a time series of skeletons in Germany spanning 4,000 years of prehistory has been used to reconstruct the first detailed genetic history of modern-day Europeans. The study, published today in Science, reveals dramatic population changes with waves of prehistoric migration, not only from the accepted path via the Near East, but […]
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World Fossil Society Found Bivalve fossils from an unrecorded fossil site in South India
October 13th, 2013 
Riffin Pictures of miocene origin Bivalves From the unrecorded geological site of South India. Congratulations to our Explorers and advisory geologists/Paleontologists. The oyster Crassostrea Sp is one of the commonest fossils found in the miocene . The calcite shell is thick and survives well after weathering and erosion of the clays and shales in which it […]
Fossil bird from 125 million years ago shows some dinosaur traits
October 12th, 2013 Riffin BEIJING, Oct. 8 (UPI) — A bird 125 million years ago had two distinct kinds of feathers, resembling those of non-flying feathered reptiles and modern birds, Chinese researchers say.A new analysis of the fossil Jeholornis, first described more than a decade ago, revealed a previously unrecognized second group of flight feathers at the base of […]
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No Comments »Iron Melt Network Helped Grow Earth’s Core, Study Suggests
October 9th, 2013 Riffin Stanford scientists recreated the intense pressures and temperatures found deep within Earth, resulting in a discovery that complicates theories of how the planet and its core were formed. The same process that allows water to trickle through coffee grinds to create your morning espresso may have played a key role in the formation of the […]
World Fossil Society Predicts A new Cretaceous Bed in South India
October 8th, 2013 Riffin World fossil society Founder Riffin T sajeev And his brother Russel T sajeev Found A new evidence for the possibility of a cretaceous sediment layer somewhere near Koodankulam,Tamilnadu. WFS group got various cretaceous fossils like Inoceramus,Griphaea etc from this area and ruled out the possibility of mass movement of cretaceous fossils from known cretaceous bed […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Dinosaur village offers new body of evidence
October 7th, 2013 Riffin BEIJING,Sept. 21 (Xinhuanet) — Scientists are conducting research on a site where an earlier generation of paleontologists had first begun their work, with the hope of unveiling more of the story from the Late Cretaceous period, Cheng Yingqi reports. The village of Jingangkou, 10 km southeast of Laiyang, Shandong province, is like any farming community. Houses […]
Insect plugs gap in fossil record
October 6th, 2013 Riffin PARIS: One day 370 million years ago, a tiny larva plunged into a shrimp-infested swamp and drowned. Unearthed in modern-day Belgium, the humble bug could plug a giant gap in the fossil record. Named Strudiella devonica, the eight-millimetre invertebrate – while in far from mint condition – is thought by researchers who published their findings […]
High Tooth Replacement Rates in Largest Dinosaurs Contributed to Their Evolutionary Success
October 5th, 2013 Riffin Rapid tooth replacement by sauropods, the largest dinosaurs in the fossil record, likely contributed to their evolutionary success, according to a research paper by Stony Brook University paleontologist Michael D’Emic, PhD, and colleagues. Published in PLOS ONE, the study also hypothesizes that differences in tooth replacement rates among the giant herbivores likely meant their diets […]
Massive dinosaur fossil unearthed by Alberta pipeline crew
October 4th, 2013 Riffin A team of oil pipeline workers digging at a site near Spirit River, Alberta have unearthed an incredible find — a roughly 10-metre-long fossilized dinosaur tail. “What we have is a totally composed tail,” Brian Brake, the executive director of the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum, told the Edmonton Journal on Wednesday. “It’s beautiful.” […]
New Fossils Push the Origin of Flowering Plants Back by 100 Million Years to the Early Triassic
October 3rd, 2013 Riffin Drilling cores from Switzerland have revealed the oldest known fossils of the direct ancestors of flowering plants. These beautifully preserved 240-million-year-old pollen grains are evidence that flowering plants evolved 100 million years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study in the open-access journal Frontiers in Plant Science. Flowering plants evolved from extinct plants […]
