The tectonic plate that dominates the Pacific “Ring of Fire” is not as rigid as most assume, and it’s getting less fiery. according to researchers at Rice University and the University of Nevada. Rice geophysicist Richard Gordon and Corné Kreemer, an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, have determined that cooling of the […]
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Ring Of Fire Tectonic Plate Is Cooling – And Shrinking
August 29th, 2014 
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No Comments »Thylacares brandonesis : carnivorous crustacean 435 MYA
August 23rd, 2014 Riffin A new species of carnivorous crustacean has been identified, which roamed the seas 435 million years ago, grasping its prey with spiny limbs before devouring it. The fossil is described and details of its lifestyle are published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. The fossils were discovered near Waukesha, Wisconsin, with the new […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: crustacean, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Thylacares brandonesis, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS Dinosaur Diary: QUETZALCOATLUS
August 22nd, 2014 Riffin Quetzalcoatlus was the largest pterosaur that ever lived; in fact, this airplane-sized reptile was the largest animal ever to take to the skies, period. Here are 10 facts you may (or may not) have known about Quetzalcoatlus. 1. Quetzalcoatlus was named after an Aztec god. Flying, feathered, reptilian deities have figured in Central American mythology […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinosaur diary, QUETZALCOATLUS, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Jurassic mammals were picky eaters.
August 21st, 2014 Riffin New analyses of tiny fossil mammals from Glamorgan, South Wales are shedding light on the function and diets of our earliest ancestors, a team including researchers from the University of Southampton report today in the journal Nature. Mammals and their immediate ancestors from the Jurassic period (201-145 million years ago) developed new characteristics — such […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Jurassic mammals, picky eaters, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Prehistoric crocodilian diversity depends on sea temperature
August 20th, 2014 Riffin The ancestors of today’s crocodiles colonised the seas during warm phases and became extinct during cold phases, according to a new Anglo-French study which establishes a link between marine crocodilian diversity and the evolution of sea temperature over a period of more than 140 million years. The research, led by Dr Jeremy Martin from the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: crocodilian diversity, Prehistoric, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Hallucigenia Sparsa:worm-like fossil found
August 18th, 2014 Riffin One of the most bizarre-looking fossils ever found — a worm-like creature with legs, spikes and a head difficult to distinguish from its tail — has found its place in the evolutionary Tree of Life, definitively linking it with a group of modern animals for the first time. The animal, known as Hallucigenia due to […]
Caiuajara dobruskii:New pterosaur species found
August 16th, 2014 Riffin A flying reptile whose head was topped with a big bony crest shaped like the sail of a yacht swooped through the skies over Brazil roughly 90 million years ago. Scientists announced on Wednesday the remarkable discovery of about 50 fossilized skeletons of a creature called Caiuajara dobruskii, a type of flying reptile known as […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Caiuajara dobruskii, Pterosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »New species of pterosaur found in mass grave
August 15th, 2014 Riffin A rare stash of thousands of ancient bones found in Brazil has turned in a magnificent find: over 47 skeletons of a single, new species of Upper Cretaceous pterosaur. Discovered in an old lake deposit on the outskirts of Cruzeiro do Oeste in the southern state of Parana, the bones are unusual for two reasons: […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Pterosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Amber offers new views of a lost world
August 13th, 2014 Riffin Scientists are searching through a massive collection of 20-million-year-old amber found in the Dominican Republic more than 50 years ago, and the effort is yielding fresh insights into ancient tropical insects and the world they inhabited. When the collection is fully curated, a task that will take many years, it will be the largest unbiased […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Amber, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus suggest all dinosaurs could have been feathered
August 11th, 2014 Riffin The first ever example of a plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales has been discovered in Russia. Previously only flesh-eating dinosaurs were known to have had feathers, so this new find raises the possibility that all dinosaurs could have been feathered. The new dinosaur, named Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus as it comes from a site called Kulinda […]
