@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The most catastrophic mass extinction on Earth took place about 252 million years ago — at the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geological periods. Up to 90 percent of the marine species of that time were annihilated. Worldwide biodiversity then recovered in several phases throughout a period […]
Archive for July, 2017
WFS News: Birgeria americana,Large-mouthed fish was top predator after mass extinction
July 27th, 2017 
Riffin WFS News: Ponomarenkia belmonthensis,300 MYO beetle
July 25th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev He’s Australian, around half a centimetre long, fairly nondescript, 300 million years old, and he’s currently causing astonishment among both entomologists and palaeontologists. The discovery of a beetle from the late Permian period, when even the dinosaurs had not yet appeared on the scene, is throwing a completely […]
WFS News: Boy trips, falls and discovers million-year-old Ice Age fossil
July 20th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Fossil Researchers have their hands on a rare fossil from the Pleistocene era thanks to a 10-year-old’s clumsiness.Jude Sparks said he literally fell on the 1.2-million-year-old skull of a stegomastodon — a massive prehistoric creature with tusks like an elephant — while on a hike with his parents […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Albertavenator curriei named in honor of renowned paleontologist
July 18th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and the Philip J Currie Dinosaur Museum have identified and named a new species of dinosaur in honour of renowned Canadian palaeontologist Dr. Philip J. Currie. Albertavenator curriei, meaning “Currie’s Alberta hunter.” It stalked Alberta, Canada, about 71 million years ago […]
Posted in General Tags: Albertavenator curriei, paleontologist, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 2 Comments »WFS News: Can satellites be used as an early warning system for landslides?
July 17th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers are using satellite data to accurately map the movement of the earth before a landslide in a bid to develop a life-saving early warning system. The team from Newcastle University (UK), Chengdu University of Technology, Tongji University, China Academy of Space Technology and Wuhan University (China) have […]
Posted in General Tags: landslides, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Satellites, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil site shows impact of early Jurassic’s low oxygen oceans
July 16th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Using a combination of fossils and chemical markers, scientists have tracked how a period of globally low ocean-oxygen turned an Early Jurassic marine ecosystem into a stressed community inhabited by only a few species. The research was led by Rowan Martindale, an assistant professor at The University […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS Facts : The Pleistocene Epoch,Last Ice Age
July 10th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Pleistocene Epoch is typically defined as the time period that began about 1.8 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago. The most recent Ice Age occurred then, as glaciers covered huge parts of the planet Earth. There have been at least five documented major […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Epoch, ice age, Pleistocene, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS Facts, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Falling sea level caused volcanoes to overflow
July 7th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Climate evolution shows some regularities, which can be traced throughout long periods of earth’s history. One of them is that the global average temperature and the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere usually go hand-in-hand. To put it simple: If the temperatures decline, the CO2values also decrease and […]
Posted in General Tags: Falling sea level, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, volcanoes, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Razanandrongobe sakalavae, the oldest known notosuchian
July 6th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Little is known about the origin and early evolution of the Notosuchia, hitherto unknown in the Jurassic period. New research on fossils from Madagascar, published in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ by Italian and French paleontologists, begin to fill the gap in a million-year-long ghost lineage. Deep and massive […]
WFS News:Through fossil leaves, a step towards Jurassic Park
July 4th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For the first time, researchers have succeeded in establishing the relationships between 200-million-year-old plants based on chemical fingerprints. Using infrared spectroscopy and statistical analysis of organic molecules in fossil leaves, they are opening up new perspectives on the dinosaur era. The unique results stem from a collaboration between […]
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