Scientists from the Smithsonian and the University of Rhode Island have found unsuspected linkages between the oxidation state of iron in volcanic rocks and variations in the chemistry of the deep Earth. Not only do the trends run counter to predictions from recent decades of study, they belie a role for carbon circulating in the […]
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Lava erupting on sea floor linked to deep-carbon cycle
November 25th, 2014 
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No Comments »Tricky take-off kept pterodactyls grounded
November 24th, 2014 Riffin Tricky take-off kept pterodactyls grounded
Posted in Featured Post Tags: pterodactyls, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, take-off, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Erosion may trigger earthquakes
November 21st, 2014 Riffin Researchers from laboratories at Géosciences Rennes (CNRS/Université de Rennes 1)*, Géosciences Montpellier (CNRS/Université de Montpellier 2) and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (CNRS/IPGP/Université Paris Diderot), in collaboration with a scientist in Taiwan, have shown that surface processes, i.e. erosion and sedimentation, may trigger shallow earthquakes (less than five kilometers deep) and favor the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: earthquakes, Erosion, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Tectonic plates not rigid, deform horizontally in cooling process
November 19th, 2014 Riffin The puzzle pieces of tectonic plates that make up the outer layer of earth are not rigid and don’t fit together as nicely as we were taught in high school. A study published in the journal Geology by Corné Kreemer, an associate professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, and his colleague Richard Gordon of […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tectonic plates, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Fossil finds behind mall causing excitement
November 17th, 2014 Riffin A dig site, in New Jersey, is yielding exciting finds: the fossils of animals believed killed around the same time the dinosaurs disappeared. Uncovering the mystery has taken a cast of thousands. Behind a strip mall in southern New Jersey, paleontologists from Drexel University are traveling 65 million years into the past. This quarry could […]
How the tortoise’s ribs got embedded in its shell……….
November 15th, 2014 Riffin Through the careful study of modern and early fossil tortoise, researchers now have a better understanding of how tortoises breathe and the evolutionary processes that helped shape their unique breathing apparatus and tortoise shell. The findings published in a paper, titled: Origin of the unique ventilatory apparatus of turtles, in the scientific journal, Nature Communications, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ribs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tortoise, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »First amphibious ichthyosaur discovered, filling evolutionary gap
November 8th, 2014 Riffin The first fossil of an amphibious ichthyosaur has been discovered in China by a team led by researchers at the University of California, Davis. The discovery is the first to link the dolphin-like ichthyosaur to its terrestrial ancestors, filling a gap in the fossil record. The fossil is described in a paper published in advance […]
Ebola’s evolutionary roots more ancient than previously thought
November 1st, 2014 Riffin A new study is helping to rewrite Ebola’s family history. The research shows that filoviruses — a family to which Ebola and its similarly lethal relative, Marburg, belong — are at least 16-23 million years old. Filoviruses likely existed in the Miocene Epoch, and at that time, the evolutionary lines leading to Ebola and Marburg […]
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