In the March-April issue of GSA Today, Stanley Finney (California State University at Long Beach) and Lucy Edwards (U.S. Geological Survey) tackle the hot topic of whether to define a new “Anthropocene” epoch as a formal unit of the geologic time scale. The term “Anthropocene” has receive significant coverage in both the geoscience and popular […]
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WFS News: Is the anthropocene a formal unit of geologic time scale?
August 31st, 2016 
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No Comments »WFS News: X-raying the Earth with waves from stormy weather ‘bombs’
August 29th, 2016 Riffin Using a detection network based in Japan, scientists have uncovered a rare type of deep-earth tremor that they attribute to a distant North Atlantic storm called a “weather bomb.” The discovery marks the first time scientists have observed this particular tremor, known as an S wave microseism. And, as Peter Gerstoft and Peter D. Bromirski […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Earth, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, weather 'bombs', WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society, X-ray No Comments »WFS News: Beetles with Orchid Pollinaria in Dominican and Mexican Amber
August 23rd, 2016 Riffin @WFS News,WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Beetles with Orchid Pollinaria in Dominican and Mexican Amber Orchids are extraordinary plants that have evolved the strategy of dispersing their pollen in little sacs called pollinia. Pollinia are normally attached by supports (caudicles) to adhesive pads (viscidia) that stick to various body parts of the pollinator. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Amber, Beetles with Orchid Pollinaria, Dominican, Mexican, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News: New T Rex fossil discovered
August 21st, 2016 Riffin @ WFS,T Rex,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev A significant new Tyrannosaurus rex fossil has been unearthed by palaeontologists from the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture and the University of Washington (UW). The find includes a nearly complete skull. Despite the fact it is one of the most iconic and well-known dinosaurs, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, T rex, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Soot may have killed off the dinosaurs and ammonites
August 19th, 2016 Riffin A new hypothesis on the extinction of dinosaurs and ammonites at the end of the Cretaceous Period has been proposed by a research team from Tohoku University and the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute. The researchers believe that massive amounts of stratospheric soot ejected from rocks following the famous Chicxulub asteroid impact, caused global […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: ammonites, dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Soot, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Mioneophron longirostris, Fossil vulture found from the Late Miocene of China
August 17th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Neogene fossils of Old World vultures (Aegypiinae and Gypaetinae) are known from Africa, Eurasia, and North America. The evolution of Old World Vultures is closely tied to the expansion of grasslands and open woodlands and appearance of large, grazing mammals. While there are no extant Old World vultures […]
WFS News: Finding Britain’s last hunter-gatherers utilising bone collagen
August 12th, 2016 Riffin @ WFS ,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Finding Britain’s last hunter-gatherers: A new biomolecular approach to ‘unidentifiable’ bone fragments utilising bone collagen doi:10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.014 In the last decade, our knowledge of the transition from foraging, fishing, and hunting to agricultural food production has been transformed through the molecular analysis of human remains. In Britain, […]
WFS News: New light shed on how vertebrates see
August 8th, 2016 Riffin The success of vertebrates is linked to the evolution of a camera-style eye and sophisticated visual system. In the absence of useful data from fossils, scenarios for evolutionary assembly of the vertebrate eye have been based necessarily on evidence from development, molecular genetics and comparative anatomy in living vertebrates. Unfortunately, steps in the transition from […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, vertebrates, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »An analysis on predatory signatures on Miocene oysters Of Crassostrea Sp.from east coast of southern India
August 4th, 2016 Riffin Riffin T Sajeev* Department of Geology, Periyar University, Salem,INDIA .*riffin@rediffmail.com The eastern coast lines of southern India are rarely used to study its paleontological importance. Living oysters of Crassostrea Sp. are found throughout these coastal margins. Recent reports indicate the existence of a paleo-estuary dated to the mio-pliocene age, along the valleys of the southern […]
WFS News: Earth’s mantle appears to have a driving role in plate tectonics
August 1st, 2016 Riffin Deep down below us is a tug of war moving at less than the speed of growing fingernails. Keeping your balance is not a concern, but how the movement happens has been debated among geologists. New findings from under the Pacific Northwest Coast by University of Oregon and University of Washington scientists now suggest a […]
