Name Means: “Bird mimic” Length: 5 feet (1.5 m) Pronounced: AYV-ee-MIME-us Weight: 45 pounds (20 kilos) When it lived: Late Cretaceous – 95 MYA Where found: Mongolia, China Avimimus was discovered by Russian paleontologist Sergei Mikhailovich Kurzanov during the exploration of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian paleontological expedition in the summer of 1973, at the Udan-Sayr (southern […]
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WFS DinoFacts: Avimimus portentosus
December 30th, 2016 
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No Comments »WFS news: Limusaurus, A dinosaur species lost its teeth in adolescence
December 25th, 2016 Riffin @WFs,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers have discovered that a species of dinosaur, Limusaurus inextricabilis, lost its teeth in adolescence and did not grow another set as adults. The finding, published today in Current Biology, is a radical change in anatomy during a lifespan and may help to explain why birds have beaks […]
WFS News: Satellites help discover a jet stream in the Earth’s core
December 22nd, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A jet stream within the Earth’s molten iron core has been discovered by scientists using the latest satellite data that helps create an ‘x-ray’ view of the planet. Lead researcher Dr Phil Livermore, from the University of Leeds, said: “The European Space Agency’s Swarm satellites are providing our […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Earth's Core, jet stream, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Satellites, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tingmiatornis arctica,a new species of prehistoric bird
December 21st, 2016 Riffin A team of geologists at the University of Rochester has discovered a new species of bird in the Canadian Arctic. At approximately 90 million years old, the bird fossils are among the oldest avian records found in the northernmost latitude, and offer further evidence of an intense warming event during the late Cretaceous period. “The […]
WFS News: Gualicho shinyae , Another Dinosaur with Short Arms
December 18th, 2016 Riffin No one is sure what, exactly, Tyrannosaurus rex did with its short arms. But Argentinian and American scientists have discovered a new dinosaur species that had the same puzzling feature, they reported this week (July 13) in PLOS One. Gualicho shinyae, whose 90 million-year-old fossil remains were found in Patagonia, Argentina, was 25 feet long […]
WFS News: Dinosaur tail complete with its feathers trapped in a piece of amber
December 13th, 2016 Riffin Researchers from China, Canada, and the University of Bristol have discovered a dinosaur tail complete with its feathers trapped in a piece of amber.The finding reported today in Current Biology helps to fill in details of the dinosaurs’ feather structure and evolution, which can’t be surmised from fossil evidence. While the feathers aren’t the first […]
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December 7th, 2016 Riffin Since the 18th century, geologists have struggled to explain how big magma chambers form in Earth’s crust. In particular, it has been difficult to explain where the surrounding rock goes when the magma intrudes. Now a team of researchers from Uppsala University and the Goethe University in Frankfurt have found the missing rocks — and […]
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December 4th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev 200 million years of geological evolution of a fault in Earth’s crust has recently been dated. Published in Nature Communications, these new findings may be used to shed light on poorly understood pathways for methane release from the heart of our planet. Tectonic plates, big sections of Earth’s […]
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December 2nd, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T sajeev,Russel T sajeev Geologists have for the first time seen and documented the Banda Detachment fault in eastern Indonesia and worked out how it formed. Lead researcher Dr Jonathan Pownall from The Australian National University (ANU) said the find will help researchers assess dangers of future tsunamis in the area, which […]
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