This new species is one of a group of four-legged armored herbivorous dinosaurs called ankylosaurs.The near-complete skeleton of the 100 million-year-old (Cretaceous period) beast, including most of the skull and mandible, along with postcranial material, was discovered in 1989 in the Allaru Mudstone on Marathon Station near Richmond, north-western Queensland, by Mr Ian Ievers. But […]
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Phosphorosaurus ponpetelegans a fossil from Japan
December 10th, 2015 
Riffin An international research partnership is revealing the first mosasaur fossil of its kind to be discovered in Japan. Not only does the 72-million-year-old marine reptile fossil fill a biogeographical gap between the Middle East and the eastern Pacific, but also it holds new revelations because of its superior preservation. This unique swimming lizard, now believed […]
Extinct 3-horned palaeomerycid ruminant found in Spain
December 8th, 2015 Riffin The extinct three-horned palaeomerycid ruminant, Xenokeryx amidalae, found in Spain, may be from the same clade as giraffes, according to a study published December 2, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Israel M. Sánchez from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, and colleagues. Palaeomerycids, now extinct, were strange three-horned Eurasian Miocene […]
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No Comments »Dinosaur Chase Digitally Reconstructed
December 7th, 2015 Riffin Historical Photogrammetry: Bird’s Paluxy River Dinosaur Chase Sequence Digitally Reconstructed as It Was prior to Excavation 70 Years Ago Peter L. Falkingham ,Karl T. Bates,James O. Farlow ,Published: April 2, 2014,DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093247 Sixteen of Bird’s original photographs used in the photogrammetric reconstruction of the trackway.Note that the state of excavation (flooded parallel trackways, sandbags, tools […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinosaur Chase, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Dinosaur extinction and Volcanic Activity
December 6th, 2015 Riffin The role volcanic activity played in dinosaur extinction events in Earth’s early history is likely to have been much less severe than previously thought, according to a study led by the University of Leeds. Asteroid impacts and long-lasting volcanic eruptions called continental flood basalts — the two most commonly cited possible causes of mass extinction […]
Original blood vessels in hadrosaur fossil
December 3rd, 2015 Riffin Researchers from North Carolina State University have confirmed that blood vessel-like structures found in an 80 million-year-old hadrosaur fossil are original to the animal, and not biofilm or other contaminants. Their findings add to the growing body of evidence that structures like blood vessels and cells can persist over millions of years, and the data […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: blood vessels, fossil, Hadrosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »First fossil peaches discovered in southwest China
December 2nd, 2015 Riffin The sweet, juicy peaches we love today might have been a popular snack long before modern humans arrived on the scene.Scientists have found eight well-preserved fossilized peach endocarps, or pits, in southwest China dating back more than two and a half million years. Despite their age, the fossils appear nearly identical to modern peach pits. […]
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December 1st, 2015 Riffin South African and Argentinian palaeontologists have discovered a new 200-million-year-old dinosaur from South Africa, and named it Sefapanosaurus, from the Sesotho word “sefapano.” The researchers from South Africa’s University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits University), and from the Argentinian Museo de La Plata and Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio made […]
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