For the first time scientists can see how the shells of tiny marine organisms grow atom-by-atom, a new study reports. The advance provides new insights into the mechanisms of biomineralization and will improve our understanding of environmental change in Earth’s past. Led by researchers from the University of California, Davis and the University of Washington, […]
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Fossilized dinosaur brain tissue identified for the first time : WFS News
October 28th, 2016 
Riffin Researchers have identified the first known example of fossilised brain tissue in a dinosaur from Sussex. The tissues resemble those seen in modern crocodiles and birds. An unassuming brown pebble, found more than a decade ago by a fossil hunter in Sussex, has been confirmed as the first example of fossilised brain tissue from a […]
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No Comments »Qilinyu : A Fish fossil sheds light on jaw evolution
October 24th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A bottom-dwelling, mud-grubbing, armoured fish that swam in tropical seas 423 million years ago is fundamentally changing the understanding of the evolution of an indisputably indispensable anatomical feature: the jaw. Scientists have unearthed in China’s Yunnan province fossils of a primordial fish called Qilinyu rostrata that was about […]
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October 22nd, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum today announced the naming of Savannasaurus elliottorum, a new genus and species of dinosaur from western Queensland, Australia. The bones come from the Winton Formation, a geological deposit approximately 95 million years old. The paper naming the new dinosaur was published on […]
WFS News: How Earth’s oldest animals were fossilized
October 20th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev The fossils are among the strangest ever found: a corkscrew-shaped tube, an eight-armed spiral, and a mysterious ropelike creature that might have engaged in the oldest known sexual reproduction among animals. They are Earth’s oldest complex organisms, dating back to 571 million years ago, and found on every […]
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October 18th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in collaboration with the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), have discovered in Vallcebre (Barcelona) an impression fossil with the surface of the skin of a dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, a period right before their extinction. Its characteristics […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Skin impressions, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Stegosaurus plates may have differed between male, female
October 13th, 2016 Riffin Stegosaurus, a large, herbivorous dinosaur with two staggered rows of bony plates along its back and two pairs of spikes at the end of its tail, lived roughly 150 million years ago during the Late Jurassic in the western United States. Some individuals had wide plates, some had tall, with the wide plates being up […]
WFS News: The first sea turtle??
October 11th, 2016 Riffin Several 80-million-year-old fossils found in Alabama are from a species of sea turtle that is the oldest known member of the lineage that gave rise to all modern species of sea turtle, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Researchers from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology worked […]
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October 8th, 2016 Riffin A new species of British ichthyosaur has been identified using skeletal remains which have been on display at the University of Bristol’s School of Earth Sciences for many years. Ichthyosaurs lived during the age of the dinosaurs but were ocean dwelling reptiles that resembled dolphins or sharks.They were fierce predators, some growing up to 15 […]
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October 4th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin T sajeev,Russel T sajeev Newly recovered fossils confirm thatDrepanosaurus, a prehistoric cross between a chameleon and an anteater, was a small reptile with a fearsome finger. The second digit of its forelimb sported a massive claw. Scientists analyzed 212-million-year-old Drepanosaurus arm fossils that were discovered at the Hayden Quarry in Ghost Ranch, […]
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