Scientists have discovered Sarmientosaurus musacchioi, a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur, based on an complete skull and partial neck fossil unearthed in Patagonia, Argentina, according to a study published April 26, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Rubén Martínez from the Laboratorio de Paleovertebrados of the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan […]
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How deep sea creatures survive asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs : World Fossil Society News
April 24th, 2016 
Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev, A team led by experts at Cardiff University has provided new evidence to explain why deep sea creatures were able to survive the catastrophic asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65m years ago. Like the dinosaurs themselves, giant marine reptiles, invertebrates and microscopic organisms became extinct after […]
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No Comments »13 Million Year Old Gavialoid Crocodylian Reveals Parallel Evolutionary Trend
April 22nd, 2016 Riffin Citation: Salas-Gismondi R, Flynn JJ, Baby P, Tejada-Lara JV, Claude J, Antoine P-O (2016) A New 13 Million Year Old Gavialoid Crocodylian from Proto-Amazonian Mega-Wetlands Reveals Parallel Evolutionary Trends in Skull Shape Linked to Longirostry. PLoS ONE 11(4): e0152453. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152453 Editor: Laurent Viriot, Team ‘Evolution of Vertebrate Dentition’, FRANCE ABSTRACT: Gavialoid crocodylians are the archetypal […]
World Fossil Society : Earth Day
April 22nd, 2016 Riffin WFS, World Fossil Society Celebrates Earth Day ……… Earth Day is being commemorated on the 22 April. Held around the world, it’s intended as a moment to reflect on and help preserve the health of the planet – but here are five things that you might not have known about the annual event. World Fossil […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Earth day, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Dinosaurs ‘already in decline’ before asteroid apocalypse
April 19th, 2016 Riffin Dinosaurs were already in an evolutionary decline tens of millions of years before the meteorite impact that finally finished them off, new research has found. The findings provide a revolution in the understanding of dinosaur evolution. Palaeontologists previously thought that dinosaurs were flourishing right up until they were wiped out by a massive meteorite impact […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: asteroid apocalypse, dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Tullimonstrum gregarium was a vertebrate
April 15th, 2016 Riffin A 300-million-year-old fossil mystery has been solved by a research team led by the University of Leicester, which has identified that the ancient ‘Tully Monster’ was a vertebrate — due to the unique characteristics of its eyes. Tullimonstrum gregarium or as it is more commonly known the ‘Tully Monster’, found only in coal quarries in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tullimonstrum gregarium, vertebrate, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Elasmotherium sibiricum: A Siberian Unicorn
April 11th, 2016 Riffin With a new discovery, paleontologists have found evidence that a Siberian “unicorn” likely walked the earth at the same time as humans. Lest visions of graceful white horses with golden, spiraled horns prance through your mind, let’s first establish that this beast is anything but. Much closer to today’s rhinoceroses than horses, Elasmotherium sibiricum was a gray, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Elasmotherium sibiricum, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Unicorn, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »A fossilized snake shows its true colors
April 7th, 2016 Riffin Ten million years ago, a green and black snake lay coiled in the Spanish undergrowth. Once, paleontologists would have been limited to the knowledge they could glean from its colorless fossil remains, but now they know what the snake looked like and can guess how it acted. Researchers reporting on March 31 in Current Biology […]
Aquilonifer spinosus, an arthropod that lived about 430 million years
April 5th, 2016 Riffin Scientists have discovered an ancient animal that carried its young in capsules tethered to the parent’s body like tiny, swirling kites. They’re naming it after “The Kite Runner,” the 2003 bestselling novel. The miniscule creature, Aquilonifer spinosus, was an arthropod that lived about 430 million years ago. It grew to less than half an inch […]
