@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev When it comes to the final days of the dinosaurs, Africa is something of a blank page. Fossils found in Africa from the Late Cretaceous, the time period from 100 to 66 million years ago, are few and far between. That means that the course of dinosaur evolution […]
Archive for January, 2018
WFS news: New Egyptian sauropod (Mansourasaurus ) reveals Late Cretaceous dinosaur dispersal between Europe and Africa
January 30th, 2018 
Riffin WFS News: The oldest Archaeopteryx : a new specimen from Bavaria
January 27th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich report the first description of the geologically oldest fossil securely attributable to the genus Archaeopteryx, and provide a new diagnostic key for differentiating bird-like dinosaurs from their closest relatives. Some 150 million years ago in what is now Northern Bavaria, Archaeopteryx — […]
WFS News: Revolutionary theory on horse evolution
January 26th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have long wondered how the horse evolved from an ancestor with five toes to the animal we know today. While it is largely believed that horses simply evolved with fewer digits, researchers at New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYITCOM) pose a new theory […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Rare 450-million-year-old ‘cone-shaped’ fossil discovery
January 24th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from the University of Leicester, working with an international team of geologists, have discovered an enigmatic fossil of a 450 million year-old creature resembling a tiny ice-cream cone. Fossils of the creature, in which the ‘body’ resembles a scoop of ice cream atop the cone, was located […]
WFS News: 508-year old bristle worm found
January 22nd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev TORONTO — A new fossil species of bristle worm has been found at the 508-million-year-old Marble Canyon site in B.C.’s Kootenay National Park. The worm found at the Burgess Shale site is helping scientists better understand analids, which include present-day leeches and earthworms.They are found in nearly all […]
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January 21st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev On July 18, 2012, passengers on an airline flight over the Southwest Pacific Ocean glimpsed something unusual — a raft of floating rock known as pumice that indicated an underwater volcanic eruption had occurred on the seafloor northeast of New Zealand. The raft eventually grew to more than […]
Posted in General Tags: Expedition, explore, Havre volcano, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, surprising, underwater, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Crepidosoma Doyleii,435m-year-old starfish fossil
January 20th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 435 million-year-old starfish fossil has been discovered in Conamara, Co Galway.The specimen will go on display at the Museum of Natural History in Dublin.It was discovered by geologist Dr Eamon Doyle in Maam Valley. Details of the find are contained in the latest issue of the Irish […]
Posted in General Tags: 435m-year-old, Crepidosoma Doyleii, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, starfish fossil, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Caihong juji ,Fossil of a “Rainbow dinosaur “
January 18th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists in China have made a colourful discovery – a bird-like dinosaur with rainbow-coloured feathers. The fossilised remains were found in the north-east of China and it’s believed to have lived 161 million years ago during the Jurassic Period.It’s been called Caihong juji, which is the mandarin word […]
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January 17th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of scientists, led by the China University of Geosciences in Beijing and including palaeontologists from the University of Bristol, has shed new light on some unusual dinosaur tracks from northern China. The tracks appear to have been made by four-legged sauropod dinosaurs yet only two […]
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January 14th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Simon Carn studies carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide emissions from volcanoes using remote sensing. Carn notes that monitoring emissions from volcanoes is a useful indicator to predict when volcanoes will erupt. With Mount Agung on eruption watch in Bali, Carn notes that monitoring emissions from the volcano may […]
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