Paleontologists in Argentina have announced the discovery of a major Jurassic-era fossil site four years after it was first discovered. The site, which spans 23,000 square miles (60,000 square kilometers) in Patagonia, southern Argentina, came to light this week with the publication of a report in the journal Ameghiniana. “No other place in the world […]
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Patagonia: The land of Jurassic-Era
February 29th, 2016 
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No Comments »Fukuivenator : New Dinosaur from Japan
February 28th, 2016 Riffin A new kind of dinosaur has been confirmed in Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, researchers said Friday, bringing the number of species discovered in Japan to seven. According to fossil analysis, the new creature was a small theropod that had both primitive and derived features, according to the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum and Fukui Prefectural University. It […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Fukuivenator, Japan, new dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Pentanogmius fritschi: fossil fish with sail
February 23rd, 2016 Riffin A 90-million-year-old fossil fish, which has been on display at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, turns out to be a new species. Research conducted by Kenshu Shimada, Ph.D., professor at DePaul University in Chicago and research associate of the Sternberg Museum in Kansas, reveals the 5.5-foot-long fossil fish to possess a […]
Acanthoteuthis: Jurassic Squid Were Speedy Swimmers
February 21st, 2016 Riffin WFS,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,World Fossil Society Three extremely rare fossil specimens of an extinct squidlike animal provide new evidence of the 10-armed creature’s body structure and suggest that it may have been a swift swimmer, a new study finds. The fossils represent Acanthoteuthis, a genus of squid relatives that lived during the Jurassic period and measured between 9.8 and 15.7 inches […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Acanthoteuthis, Jurassic Squid, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Eoleptonema apex : Not Fossils but Chert
February 19th, 2016 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev@ A team of scientists including Carnegie’s Dina Bower and Andrew Steele weigh in on whether microstructures found in 3.46 billion-year-old samples of a silica-rich rock called chert found in Western Australia are the planet’s oldest fossils. The purported fossils have been a heated scientific controversy for many years. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Chert, Eoleptonema apex, Not Fossils, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »selective predation by Cambrian trilobite Rusophycus
February 18th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,World Fossil Society Evidence of predatory activity can be observed in the fossil record in the form of drill holes, repair scars, bite marks, and recognizable skeletal fragments in coprolites and preserved gut tracts. It is less common, however, to find fossil snapshots of predators caught in the act of feeding […]
Strychnos : A fossil flower from Tertiary amber
February 16th, 2016 Riffin Researchers today announced in the journal Nature Plants the discovery of the first-ever fossil specimens of an “asterid” — a family of flowering plants that gave us everything from the potato to tomatoes, tobacco, petunias and our morning cup of coffee. But these two 20-30 million-year-old fossil flowers, found perfectly preserved in a piece of […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil flower, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Strychnos, Tertiary amber, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Eotrachodon orientalis: Dinosaur from Appalachia
February 13th, 2016 Riffin WFS,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,World Fossil Society An international team of researchers has identified and named a new species of dinosaur that is the most complete, primitive duck-billed dinosaur to ever be discovered in the eastern United States. This new discovery also shows that duck-billed dinosaurs originated in the eastern United States, what was then […]
Rhinconichthys : New fossil fish species with giant mouth
February 9th, 2016 Riffin Researchers have discovered two new fossil fish species that could swing the jaws open extra wide, like a parachute, from the Cretaceous Period, about 92 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the planet.These fossil fish species of the genus called Rhinconichthys were estimated to be more than 6.5 feet long and fed on plankton. Rhinconichthys […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Rhinconichthys, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Rusingoryx atopocranion : An ancient wildebeest
February 6th, 2016 Riffin By poring over the fossilized skulls of ancient wildebeest-like animals (Rusingoryx atopocranion) unearthed on Kenya’s Rusinga Island, researchers have discovered that the little-known hoofed mammals had a very unusual, trumpet-like nasal passage similar only to the nasal crests of lambeosaurine hadrosaur dinosaurs. The findings reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on February 4 […]
