@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Rice University petrologists who recreated hot, high-pressure conditions from 60 miles below Earth’s surface have found a new clue about a crucial event in the planet’s deep past. Their study describes how fossilized carbon — the remains of Earth’s earliest single-celled creatures — could have been subsumed and […]
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WFS News: Early organic carbon got deep burial in mantle
April 30th, 2017 
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No Comments »WFS News: long-held theory of Tsunami formation challenged
April 29th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new NASA study is challenging a long-held theory that tsunamis form and acquire their energy mostly from vertical movement of the seafloor. An undisputed fact was that most tsunamis result from a massive shifting of the seafloor — usually from the subduction, or sliding, of one tectonic […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tsunami formation, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tokummia Katalepsis, a Cambrian-era predator
April 27th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Tokummia Katalepsis The newest creature discovered at the Burgess Shale fossil site in B.C. looks like it’s part centipede, part crab and part can-opener. Meet the tokummia katalepsis, a Cambrian-era predator, found by paleontologists from the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum.The team released news of the […]
WFS News: Moabosaurus discovered in Utah’s ‘gold mine’
April 25th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Moabosaurus,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Moabosaurus discovery was published this week by the University of Michigan’s Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology. The paper, authored by three Brigham Young University researchers and a BYU graduate at Auburn University, profiles Moabosaurus, a 125-million-year-old dinosaur whose skeleton was assembled using bones extracted from the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Moabosaurus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Evidence of Earthquakes recorded on fossils
April 24th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Cascadia subduction zone (CSZ) has captured major attention from paleoseismologists due to evidence from several large (magnitude 8-9) earthquakes preserved in coastal salt marshes. Stratigraphic records are proving to be useful for learning about the CSZ’s past, and microfossils may provide more answers about large ancient earthquakes. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Evidence of Earthquakes, fossils, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: How the darkness and the cold killed the dinosaurs
April 20th, 2017 riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,WFS News Sixty six million years ago, the sudden extinction of the dinosaurs started the ascent of the mammals, ultimately resulting in humankind’s reign on Earth. Climate scientists now reconstructed how tiny droplets of sulfuric acid formed high up in the air after the well-known impact of a […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: cold, darkness, dinosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Teleocrater rhadinus had a surprising croc-like look
April 14th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For decades, scientists have wondered what the earliest dinosaur relatives looked like. Most assumed that they would look like miniature dinosaurs, be about the size of a chicken, and walk on two legs. A Virginia Tech paleobiologist’s latest discovery of Teleocrater rhadinus, however, has overturned popular predictions. This […]
WFS News: oldest known member of the phytosaurs found in China
April 11th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The skeleton of a small, short-snouted reptile found in China was recently identified as the oldest known member of the phytosaurs — an extinct group of large, semi-aquatic reptiles that superficially resembled the distantly-related crocodylians and lived during the Triassic Period, approximately 250 million years ago to 200 […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: China, oldest, phytosaurs, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 3-D map of Earth’s interior
April 2nd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Because of Earth’s layered composition, scientists have often compared the basic arrangement of its interior to that of an onion. There’s the familiar thin crust of continents and ocean floors; the thick mantle of hot, semisolid rock; the molten metal outer core; and the solid iron inner core. […]
