@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The fossilized remains of a giant burrowing bat that lived in New Zealand millions of years ago have been found by a UNSW Sydney-led international team of scientists. Teeth and bones of the extinct bat – which was about three times the size of an average bat today […]
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WFS News: Giant extinct burrowing bat discovered in New Zealand
January 13th, 2018 
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No Comments »WFS News: Sclerocormus parviceps, an ichthyosauriform that’s breaking all the rules about what ichthyosaurs are like
January 12th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Two hundred and fifty million years ago, life on earth was in a tail-spin–climate change, volcanic eruptions, and rising sea levels contributed to a mass extinction that makes the death of the dinosaurs look like child’s play. Marine life got hit hardest–96% of all marine species went extinct. […]
WFS News: Fossil evidence reveals butterflies and moths lived 50m years earlier than thought
January 11th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The earliest known fossil evidence of butterflies and moths has been found in Germany, showing they lived at least 50m years earlier than previously believed and challenging one of the most popular beliefs about their evolution. Scales from the wings of at least seven species were found in […]
Posted in General Tags: 50m years earlier, butterflies, Fossil evidence, moths, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Extra-terrestrial Hypatia stone rattles solar system status quo
January 10th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In 2013, researchers announced that a pebble found in south-west Egypt, was definitely not from Earth. By 2015, other research teams had announced that the ‘Hypatia’ stone was not part of any known types of meteorite or comet, based on noble gas and nuclear probe analyses. (The stone […]
Posted in General Tags: Hypatia, rattles, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, solar system, stone, WFS, WFS News: Extra-terrestrial, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Fossil Teeth Link Beast to Earth’s Largest Shark
January 9th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Source: Article by By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer,livescience.com It took nearly 40 years, but researchers have finally collected enough fossil teeth in Alabama to properly identify a previously unknown species of ancient shark — one that was a possible ancestor of megalodon, the largest shark to ever exist. […]
Posted in General Tags: Beast, Earth’s Largest Shark, Fossil teeth, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Trace Fossils On mars?
January 7th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Photographs taken by NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, Lens Imager (MAHLI) may show trace fossils on the Red Planet, according to researcher Barry DiGregorio. Mr DiGregorio, who written several research papers about Mars, believes that the images taken at the start of 2018 could be similar to Ordovician trace […]
Posted in General Tags: mars, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, trace fossils, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: How metallic cores of rocky planets formed
January 6th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have long pondered how rocky bodies in the solar system — including our own Earth — got their metal cores. According to research conducted by The University of Texas at Austin, evidence points to the downwards percolation of molten metal toward the center of the planet through […]
Posted in General Tags: formed, metallic cores, Riffin T Sajeev, rocky planets, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Origin of unique respiratory system of birds and dinosaurs
January 4th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev “The respiratory organs of vertebrates exhibit a tremendous degree of diversity, but the lung-air sac system of birds is truly unique among extant species,” says Dr. Markus Lambertz from the Institute for Zoology at the University of Bonn in Germany. Air sacs are bellows-like protrusions of the lung, […]
Posted in General Tags: birds, dinosaurs, Origin, respiratory system, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, unique, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Evolution of bipedalism in ancient dinosaur ancestors
January 3rd, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists at the University of Alberta have developed a new theory to explain why the ancient ancestors of dinosaurs stopped moving about on all fours and rose up on just their two hind legs. Bipedalism in dinosaurs was inherited from ancient and much smaller proto-dinosaurs. The trick to […]
Posted in General Tags: ancestors, bipedalism, Dinosaur, Evolution, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS Dinofact: Eotyrannus
January 1st, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Name:Eotyrannus (Greek for “dawn tyrant”); pronounced EE-oh-tih-RAN-us Habitat:Woodlands of Western Europe Historical Period:Early Cretaceous (125-120 million years ago) Size and Weight:About 15 feet long and 300-500 pounds Diet:Meat Distinguishing Characteristics:Small size; relatively long arms with grasping hands About Eotyrannus The tiny tyrannosaur Eotyrannus lived during the early […]
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