A 15 million year-old fossil sperm whale specimen from California belongs to a new genus, according to a study published December 9, 2015 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandra Boersma and Nicholas Pyenson from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. The authors of the study reanalyzed the large but incomplete Ontocetus oxymycterus […]
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The Subway Garnet
January 8th, 2016 
Riffin The American Museum of Natural History is a lot of things to a lot of people. To the wealthy philanthropist, it’s a venue for black-tie galas in the shadow of a 94-foot blue whale. To the young, it’s the setting for a movie franchise starring Ben Stiller that single-handedly made the educational diorama relevant again. […]
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No Comments »Toxic Panthalassa May Have Triggered end-Triassic Mass Extinction
January 6th, 2016 Riffin A mass extinction some 201 million years ago may have been triggered by changes in the biochemical balance of Panthalassa (also known as the Panthalassic Ocean) – the larger of the two oceans surrounding the supercontinent of Pangaea, according to a team of scientists led by Prof Jessica Whiteside from the University of Southampton, UK. […]
Plant fossils from Terani clay bed
January 3rd, 2016 Riffin The Upper Gondwana sediments known as “Sivaganga Formation”, represents the first phase of sedimentation in the Cauvery basin. Outcrops are scanty and isolated due to alluvial cover, rarely exceeds 2km in width and at places less than 50m. The upper Gondwana in Tiruchirapalli area is divisible into two formations – the lower Boulder Conglomerate – […]
Volcanic chain underlies Antarctica
January 1st, 2016 Riffin Planetary scientists would be thrilled if they could peel Earth like an orange and look at what lies beneath the thin crust. We live on the planet’s cold surface, but Earth is a solid body and the surface is continually deformed, split, wrinkled and ruptured by the roiling of warmer layers beneath it.The contrast between […]
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