About 210 million years ago when the supercontinent of Pangea was starting to break up and dog-sized dinosaurs were hiding from nearly everything, entirely different kinds of reptiles called phytosaurs and rauisuchids were at the top of the food chain. It was widely believed the two top predators didn’t interact much as the former was […]
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Prehistoric predators tangled across land, sea
September 30th, 2014 
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No Comments »Drilling Into an Active Earthquake Fault
September 28th, 2014 Riffin Three University of Michigan geologists are participating in an international effort to drill nearly a mile beneath the surface of New Zealand this fall to bring back rock samples from an active fault known to generate major earthquakes. The goal of the Deep Fault Drilling Project is to better understand earthquake processes by sampling the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Drilling, Earthquake Fault, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Dinosaur family tree gives clues on the evolution of birds
September 27th, 2014 Riffin The most comprehensive family tree of meat-eating dinosaurs ever created is enabling scientists to discover key details of how birds evolved from them. The study, published in the journal Current Biology, shows that the familiar anatomical features of birds — such as feathers, wings and wishbones — all first evolved piecemeal in their dinosaur ancestors […]
New explanation for origin of plate tectonics?
September 23rd, 2014 Riffin The mystery of what kick-started the motion of our earth’s massive tectonic plates across its surface has been explained by researchers at the University of Sydney. “Earth is the only planet in our solar system where the process of plate tectonics occurs,” said Professor Patrice Rey, from the University of Sydney’s School of Geosciences. “The […]
Rhinorex condrupus :Hadrosaur with huge nose discovered
September 19th, 2014 Riffin Call it the Jimmy Durante of dinosaurs — a newly discovered hadrosaur with a truly distinctive nasal profile. The new dinosaur, named Rhinorex condrupus by paleontologists from North Carolina State University and Brigham Young University, lived in what is now Utah approximately 75 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. Rhinorex, which translates roughly […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Hadrosaur, Rhinorex condrupus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »climate events in Earth’s history may require reappraisal
September 17th, 2014 Riffin A recent study of the global carbon cycle offers a new perspective of Earth’s climate records through time. Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science suggest that one of the current methods for interpreting ancient changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and oceans may […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: climate events, Earth's history, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Rukwatitan bisepultus : new species of titanosaurian
September 15th, 2014 Riffin Ohio University paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian, a member of the large-bodied sauropods that thrived during the final period of the dinosaur age, in Tanzania. Although many fossils of titanosaurians have been discovered around the globe, especially in South America, few have been recovered from the continent of Africa. The new species, […]
Scientists report first semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus: Massive predator was more than 9 feet longer than largest T. rex
September 13th, 2014 Riffin Scientists are unveiling what appears to be the first truly semiaquatic dinosaur, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. New fossils of the massive Cretaceous-era predator reveal it adapted to life in the water some 95 million years ago, providing the most compelling evidence to date of a dinosaur able to live and hunt in an aquatic environment. The fossils […]
Mantle plumes crack continents
September 9th, 2014 Riffin In some parts of the Earth, material rises upwards like a column from the boundary layer of Earth’s core and the lower mantle to just below Earth’s crust hundreds of kilometres above. Halted by the resistance of the hard crust and lithospheric mantle, the flow of material becomes wider, taking on a mushroom-like shape. Specialists […]
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September 6th, 2014 Riffin Methods have been developed to try to identify and correct for bias in the fossil record but new research from the Universities of Bristol and Bath, suggests many of these correction methods may actually be misleading. The study, led by Dr Alex Dunhill, formerly at the Universities of Bristol and Bath and now at the […]
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