@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 200-million-year-old reptile is rewriting the rulebooks on how four-legged animals conquered the world.Newly discovered fossils suggest Drepanosaurus had huge hooked claws to dig insects from bark, much like today’s anteaters in the forests of Central and South America.Scientists say the creature defies the convention on how reptiles […]
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WFS News: Triopticus shows dinosaurs copied body, skull shapes of distant relatives
September 27th, 2016 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Iconic dinosaur shapes were present for at least a hundred million years on our planet in animals before those dinosaurs themselves actually appeared. In a study in today’s (Sept. 22) issue of Current Biology, a multi-institutional team of paleontologists including Virginia Tech College of Science researcher Michelle Stocker […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Stalagmites may record past earthquakes
September 22nd, 2016 Riffin Stalagmites rising from the floor of a cave in southern Indiana may contain traces of past earthquakes in the region, according to a report published September 13 in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. The rock formations in Donnehue’s Cave, and others like them in local caves, could help scientists better understand the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: earthquakes, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Stalagmites, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Laser used to unlock mysteries of fossils
September 19th, 2016 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev A researcher from the University of Cambridge is on the Bonavista Peninsula to get a better understanding of what’s left some of the oldest organisms in the history of life on earth.Paleontologist Emily Mitchell is using a hand-held laser to map thousands of large, complex fossils — dating from about 560 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossils, Laser, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 3D Camouflage in a Psittacosaurus Dinosaur
September 17th, 2016 Riffin After reconstructing the colour patterns of a well-preserved dinosaur from China, researchers from the University of Bristol have found that the long-lost species Psittacosaurus (meaning “parrot lizard,” a reference to its parrot-like beak) was light on its underside and darker on top. This colour pattern, known as countershading, is a common form of camouflage in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 3D Camouflage, Dinosaur, Psittacosaurus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A Paleolatitude Calculator for Paleoclimate Studies
September 14th, 2016 Riffin A Paleolatitude Calculator for Paleoclimate Studies Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen ,Lennart V. de Groot,Sebastiaan J. van Schaik,Wim Spakman,Peter K. Bijl,Appy Sluijs, Cor G. Langereis,Henk Brinkhuis Published: June 10, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126946 In the last decade, paleoclimatology has been amongst the most rapidly developing research fields within the Earth Sciences. Crucial information that can be derived […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Paleoclimate, Paleolatitude, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Duck-billed dinosaur (hadrosaur) with 300 Teeth
September 11th, 2016 Riffin Imagine how much dental care you’d need if you had 300 or more teeth packed together on each side of your mouth. Duck-billed dinosaurs (hadrosaurs), who lived in the Cretaceous period between 90 million and 65 million years ago, sported this unique dental system, which had never been fully understood until it was examined at […]
WFS News: Snake eats lizard eats beetle, Fossil food chain examined
September 8th, 2016 Riffin In cooperation with CONICET in Argentina, Senckenberg scientists examined a spectacular discovery from the UNESCO World Heritage site Messel Pit: A fossil snake in whose stomach a lizard can be seen, which in turn had consumed a beetle. The discovery of the approximately 48-million-year-old tripartite fossil food chain is unique for Messel; worldwide, only one […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: beetle, Fossil food chain, lizard, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Snake, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Jurassic ‘sea monster’ fossil emerges in Scotland
September 5th, 2016 Riffin A Jurassic sea monster in all its prehistoric glory has finally re-emerged into the light after 50 years cooped up in a museum storage room in Scotland. Nicknamed the Storr Lochs Monster, the newly revealed creature is actually an ichthyosaur, a kind of extinct swimming reptile that ruled the waves while the dinosaurs reigned over […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 'sea monster', fossil, Jurassic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Scotland, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Oldest fossil life found in Greenland rocks
September 3rd, 2016 Riffin @Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev The reddish peaks in this 3.7-billion-year-old rock may be structures made by microbes in a shallow ocean—if so, they would be the earliest known evidence of life on Earth.A. Nutman et. al. Nature 536, 7618 (1 September 2016) © MacMillian Publisher Ltd. Hints of oldest fossil life found in Greenland […]
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