Two hundred and fifty million years ago, life on earth was in a tail-spin–climate change, volcanic eruptions, and rising sea levels contributed to a mass extinction that makes the death of the dinosaurs look like child’s play. Marine life got hit hardest–96% of all marine species went extinct. For a long time, scientists believed that […]
Archive for May, 2016
WFS News: Sclerocormus parviceps reveal rapid evolution after mass extinction ?
May 28th, 2016 
Riffin WFS NEWS : Impact Crators
May 25th, 2016 Riffin Impact craters reveal one of the most spectacular geologic process known to human beings. During the past 3.5 billion years, it is estimated that more than 80 bodies, larger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, have bombarded Earth. However, tectonic processes, weathering, and burial quickly obscure or destroy […]
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No Comments »Major earthquake threat from the Riasi fault in the Himalayas ?
May 23rd, 2016 Riffin New geologic mapping in the Himalayan mountains of Kashmir between Pakistan and India suggests that the region is ripe for a major earthquake that could endanger the lives of as many as a million people. Scientists have known about the Riasi fault in Indian Kashmir, but it wasn’t thought to be as much as a […]
Spiclypeus shipporum: New horned dinosaur species with ‘spiked shield’
May 19th, 2016 Riffin A chance fossil discovery in Montana a decade ago has led to the identification of an audacious new species of horned dinosaur. The international research team that described the plant-eating dinosaur was led by a scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature. The results are published today in the online science journal PLOS ONE. The […]
WFS news: How the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain became so bendy
May 16th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The physical mechanism causing the unique, sharp bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain has been uncovered in a collaboration between the University of Sydney and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Led by a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney’s School of Geosciences, researchers used the Southern […]
WFS NEWS : chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago
May 14th, 2016 Riffin Using the oldest fossil micrometeorites — space dust — ever found, Monash University-led research has made a surprising discovery about the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago. The findings of a new study published today in the journal Nature — led by Dr Andrew Tomkins and a team from the School of Earth, […]
mosasaurs were warm-blooded?
May 11th, 2016 Riffin Key: WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Mosasaurs — an extinct group of aquatic reptiles that thrived during the Late Cretaceous period — possibly were “endotherms,” or warm-blooded creatures, a paper co-written by a UA professor suggests. Dr. Alberto Perez-Huerta’s paper on endothermic mosasaurs — co-written with now-graduated doctoral student Dr. T. Lynn Harrell […]
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May 7th, 2016 Riffin Highlighting and identifying fossilized structures can be difficult whether it is bone, soft tissue such as skin, muscle and internal organs, or integument such as scales and feathers. Historically, multiple methods have been used to highlight structures for photography, including cross-lighting, polarized light , camera filters, and ultraviolet (UV) light . Cross-lighting can highlight structures […]
