@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 2-billion-year-old chunk of sea salt provides new evidence for the transformation of Earth’s atmosphere into an oxygenated environment capable of supporting life as we know it. The study by an international team of institutions including Princeton University found that the rise in oxygen that occurred about 2.3 […]
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WFS News: Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth’s great oxidation.
March 31st, 2018 
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No Comments »WFS News: Baby tyrannosaur fossil unearthed in Montana
March 30th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev For now, there are just a few things researchers and students at the University of Kansas want people to dig about the new dinosaur they recently excavated in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation. First off, it’s a “fabulous” complete section of the upper jaw with all of its teeth […]
Posted in General Tags: Baby tyrannosaur, fossil, Montana, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: EVIDENCE OF NEOTECTONIC ACTIVITY ALONG THE EAST COAST OF INDIAN PENINSULA
March 26th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev EVIDENCE OF NEOTECTONIC ACTIVITY ALONG THE EAST COAST OF INDIAN PENINSULA ( Riffin T Sajeev Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs.doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-293786,Volume 49,Issue 6,Pages 388 T219. Challenges in Tectonics:Publisher:Geological Society of America (GSA) :https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/293786 Abstract: The eastern coastal plains of the Indian peninsula are studied meagerly based […]
WFS facts: dating of fossils
March 21st, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev So, how do we know how old a fossil is? There are two main methods determining a fossils age, relative dating and absolute dating. Relative dating is used to determine a fossils approximate age by comparing it to similar rocks and fossils of known ages. Absolute dating is used to […]
Posted in General Tags: dating of fossils, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS Facts, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:60-year-old paleontological mystery of a ‘phantom’ dicynodont
March 20th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study has re-discovered fossil collections from a 19th century hermit that validate ‘phantom’ fossil footprints collected in the 1950s showing dicynodonts coexisting with dinosaurs. Before the dinosaurs, around 260 million years ago, a group of early mammal relatives called dicynodonts were the most abundant vertebrate land […]
WFS News: Five New Fossil Forests Found in Antarctica
March 18th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Antarctica is one of the harshest environments on the planet. As the coldest, driest continent, it harbors a world of extremes. The powerful katabatic winds that rush from the polar plateau down the steep, vertical drops around the continent’s coast can stir up turbulent snowstorms lasting days or weeks, and the […]
Posted in General Tags: Antarctica, Five New Fossil Forests, found, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth’s mantle
March 14th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A UNLV scientist has discovered the first direct evidence that fluid water pockets may exist as far as 500 miles deep into the Earth’s mantle. Groundbreaking research by UNLV geoscientist Oliver Tschauner and colleagues found diamonds pushed up from the Earth’s interior had traces of unique crystallized water […]
Posted in General Tags: deep, Earth's mantle, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Unique diamond impurities, water, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Half-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Brains Found in Ancient Predator (Kerygmachela kierkegaardi)
March 12th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev With help from 15 fossils recently discovered in Greenland, scientists are now able to peer inside the brain of an animal that lived 520 million years ago. The extinct species, Kerygmachela kierkegaardi, swam in ocean waters during an evolutionary arms race called the Cambrian explosion. Flanked by 11 wrinkly flaps […]
WFS News: Caudal autotomy as anti-predatory behaviour in Palaeozoic reptiles
March 9th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Imagine that you’re a voracious carnivore who sinks its teeth into the tail of a small reptile and anticipates a delicious lunch, when, in a flash, the reptile is gone and you are left holding a wiggling tail between your jaws. A new study by the University of […]
WFS News: Baby bird fossil ( Enantiornithes) gives a rare look at avian development
March 8th, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird is helping scientists understand how early avians came into the world in the Age of Dinosaurs. The fossil, which dates back to the Mesozoic Era (250-65 million years ago), is a chick from a group of prehistoric birds called, […]
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