Archive for October, 2017

WFS News: The first known neonate Ichthyosaurus communis skeleton

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists from the UK have identified the smallest and youngest specimen of Ichthyosaurus communis on record and found an additional surprise preserved in its stomach. The ichthyosaur fossil has a total length of just around 70 cm and had the remains of a prehistoric squid in its stomach. […]

WFS News: Helicopter lifts chasmosaur fossil with ‘frill’ in Alberta

@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Two years after paleontologist Jordan Mallon of the Canadian Museum of Nature and his team discovered the skull of a chasmosaur while going through a dinosaur bonebed in Alberta, he finally got to see a helicopter lift it into the air. “There’s no roads down to the […]