@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Name: Ophthalmosaurus (Eye lizard). Phonetic: Of-fal-moe-sore-us. Named By: Harry Govier Seeley - 1874. Synonyms: Apatodontosaurus, Ancanamunia, Baptanodon, Paraophthalmosaurus, Yasykovia. Classification: Chordata, Reptilia, Ichthyosauria, Ophthalmosauridae, Ophthalmosaurinae. Species: O. icenicus (type), O. natans, O. saveljeviensis, O. yasykovi. Diet: Piscivore, possibly a specialist in deep water squid. Size: Up to […]
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WFS Dino Facts : Ophthalmosaurus (Eye lizard)
October 30th, 2017 
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No Comments »WFS News: Fossil Footprints Reveal Existence of Big Early Dinosaur Predator
October 29th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A trail of fossilized three-toed footprints that measure nearly two feet (57 cm) long shows that a huge meat-eating dinosaur stalked southern Africa 200 million years ago at a time when most carnivorous dinosaurs were modest-sized beasts. Scientists on Thursday described the footprints from an […]
WFS News: Ichthyosaur fossil discovered for first time in India
October 26th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists in India have discovered a 152 million-year-old fossil of an ichthyosaur – an extinct marine reptile – in the western state of Gujarat. This is the first time an ichthyosaur fossil has been discovered in India.The fossil was found inside rocks from the Mesozoic Era, which […]
Posted in General Tags: discovered, first time in India, fossil, Ichthyosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Growing pains: The oldest trees on Earth ripped themselves apart, fossils show
October 25th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have discovered 374-million-year-old tree fossils from the dawn of Earth’s forests — and found that these strange plants literally had to rip themselves apart as they grew. The fossils, described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shed light on the nature of ancient forests […]
Posted in General Tags: fossils, Growing pains, oldest trees, Riffin T Sajeev, ripped themselves apart, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Fossils from the world’s oldest trees reveal complex anatomy never seen before
October 25th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The first trees to have ever grown on Earth were also the most complex, new research has revealed. Fossils from a 374-million-year-old tree found in north-west China have revealed an interconnected web of woody strands within the trunk of the tree that is much more intricate than that […]
WFS News: Mongolian micro fossils point to the rise of animals on Earth.
October 24th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A Yale-led research team has discovered a cache of embryo-like microfossils in northern Mongolia that may shed light on questions about the long-ago shift from microbes to animals on Earth. Called the Khesen Formation, the site is one of the most significant for early Earth fossils since […]
WFS News: Scientists determine source of world’s largest mud eruption
October 23rd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev On May 29, 2006, mud started erupting from several sites on the Indonesian island of Java. Boiling mud, water, rocks and gas poured from newly-created vents in the ground, burying entire towns and compelling many Indonesians to flee. By September 2006, the largest eruption site reached a peak, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: mud eruption, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, source, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society, world's largest No Comments »WFS News: New tyrannosaur fossil is most complete found in Southwestern US
October 22nd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A remarkable new fossilized skeleton of a tyrannosaur discovered in the Bureau of Land Management’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) in southern Utah was airlifted by helicopter Sunday, Oct 15, from a remote field site, and delivered to the Natural History Museum of Utah where it will be […]
Posted in General Tags: complete, fossil, New, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tyrannosaur, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Archaeology fossil teeth discovery in Germany could re-write human history
October 21st, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 9.7-million-year-old discovery has left a team of German scientists scratching their heads. The teeth seem to belong to a species only known to have appeared in Africa several million years later. A team of German archaeologists discovered a puzzling set of teeth in the former riverbed of […]
Posted in General Tags: Archaeology, discovery, Fossil teeth, Germany, human history, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 1 Comment »WFS News: Researchers discover 48-million-year-old lipids in a fossil bird
October 19th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev As a rule, soft parts do not withstand the ravages of time; hence, the majority of vertebrate fossils consist only of bones. Under these circumstances, a new discovery from the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Messel Pit” near Darmstadt in Germany comes as an even bigger surprise: a 48-million-year […]
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