Plankton in Earth’s oceans received a huge boost when microorganisms capable of creating soluble nitrogen ‘fertilizer’ directly from the atmosphere diversified and spread throughout the open ocean. This event occurred at around 800 million years ago and it changed forever how carbon was cycled in the ocean. It has long been believed that the appearance […]
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Fossilized whale skeletons unearths in Chilean highway project
February 26th, 2014 
Riffin The whales were found more than 120 feet above sea level, about two-thirds of a mile from the ocean, in ancient sandstones below what is now the northbound lane of the Pan-American Highway in the Atacama region of northern Chile.Highway construction workers found the first skeletons. They called a nearby museum, and said: We found […]
Zircon Crystal reveals “cool early Earth” at 4.4 billion years.
February 25th, 2014 Riffin With the help of a tiny fragment of zircon extracted from a remote rock outcrop in Australia, the picture of how our planet became habitable to life about 4.4 billion years ago is coming into sharper focus. Writing today (Feb. 23, 2014) in the journal Nature Geoscience, an international team of researchers led by University […]
How river rocks round? Geophysicist teams joins with mathematicians
February 24th, 2014 Riffin For centuries, geologists have recognized that the rocks that line riverbeds tend to be smaller and rounder further downstream. But these experts have not agreed on the reason these patterns exist. Abrasion causes rocks to grind down and become rounder as they are transported down the river. Does this grinding reduce the size of rocks […]
New study reveals Some animals need extremely little oxygen
February 23rd, 2014 Riffin One of science’s strongest dogmas is that complex life on Earth could only evolve when oxygen levels in the atmosphere rose to close to modern levels. But now studies of a small sea sponge fished out of a Danish fjord shows that complex life does not need high levels of oxygen in order to live […]
30 million years old bone-eating worms found
February 21st, 2014 Riffin An international team of scientists led by the paleontologist Steffen Kiel at the University of Kiel, Germany, found the first fossil boreholes of the worm Osedax that consumes whale bones on the deep-sea floor. They conclude that “boneworms” are at least 30 Million years old. This result was published in the current issue of the […]
WFS founder Riffin T sajeev Found a large prehistoric Estuary remnants in Indian sub continent
February 20th, 2014 Riffin
basin may distorts the seismic radiation pattern
February 17th, 2014 Riffin Tall buildings, bridges and other long-period structures in Greater Vancouver may experience greater shaking from large (M 6.8 +) earthquakes than previously thought due to the amplification of surface waves passing through the Georgia basin, according to two studies published by the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA). The basin will have the […]
Connection between color and physiology of dinosaurs revealed
February 16th, 2014 Riffin New research that revises the rules allowing scientists to decipher color in dinosaurs may also provide a tool for understanding the evolutionary emergence of flight and changes in dinosaur physiology prior to its origin. In a survey comparing the hair, skin, fuzz and feathers of living terrestrial vertebrates and fossil specimens, a research team from […]
Jaw dropping: Scientists reveal how vertebrates came to have a face
February 14th, 2014 Riffin A team of French and Swedish researchers have presented new fossil evidence for the origin of one of the most important and emotionally significant parts of our anatomy: the face. Using micron resolution X-ray imaging, they show how a series of fossils, with a 410 million year old armoured fish called Romundina at its centre, […]
