@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev IF YOU COULD time-travel to Korea 110 million years ago, you’d see an eerie spectacle if you walked out at night with a flashlight: Each sweep of your beam would make the landscape sparkle as innumerable spider eyes glinted in the dark. In a new study in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology, […]
Archive for January, 2019
WFS News: Koreamegops samsiki,The ancient spider had eyes that shone in the dark
January 31st, 2019 
Riffin WFS News: What’s the World’s Largest Dinosaur?
January 29th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The battle for the title of world’s largest dinosaur is complicated. Here’s why: Paleontologists rarely discover an entire skeleton. They’re more likely to uncover bone fragments and then try to estimate a profile of height and weight. Moreover, there are three categories for largest dinosaur on record: the […]
WFS News: Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum prolonged by fossil carbon oxidation
January 27th, 2019 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum prolonged by fossil carbon oxidation A rapid rise in temperature on ancient Earth triggered a climate response that may have prolonged the warming for many thousands of years, according to scientists. Their study, published online in Nature Geoscience, provides new evidence of a climate feedback that […]
WFS News: Eretmorhipis carrolldongi,Early Triassic marine reptile
January 26th, 2019 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev No animal alive today looks quite like a duckbilled platypus, but about 250 million years ago something very similar swam the shallow seas in what is now China, finding prey by touch with a cartilaginous bill. The newly discovered marine reptile Eretmorhipis carrolldongi from the lower Triassic period is […]
WFS News: T. rex fossil leads researchers to new species of shark
January 24th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev T. rex fossil leads researchers to new species of shark Scientists examining rock left over from the discovery of a fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex recently came across a surprise: shark teeth. The huge meat-eating dinosaur, the remains of which were extricated in the 1990s, was not killed by a shark. But, scientists said on […]
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No Comments »WFS News: World’s oldest fossil mushroom
January 20th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Roughly 115 million years ago, when the ancient supercontinent Gondwana was breaking apart, a mushroom fell into a river and began an improbable journey. Its ultimate fate as a mineralized fossil preserved in limestone in northeast Brazil makes it a scientific wonder, scientists report in […]
Posted in General Tags: fossil mushroom, oldest, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Surface exposure dating with cosmogenic nuclides
January 19th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Surface exposure dating with cosmogenic nuclides SUSAN IVY-OCHS & FLORIAN KOBER Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart Quaternary Science Journal,57/1–2,157–189,Hannover 2008 Abstract: In the last decades surface exposure dating using cosmogenic nuclides has emerged as a powerful tool in Quaternary geochronology and landscape evolution studies. Cosmogenic nuclides are produced in rocks and […]
WFS News: An unexpected noncarpellate epigynous flower from the Jurassic of China
January 18th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Despite the importance of, the great interest in and intensive effort spent on investigating angiosperms, a controversy remains as to when and how this group came into existence. Since the time of Darwin, some scholars have proposed that angiosperms existed before the Cretaceous (Smith et al., 2010; Clarke et […]
WFS News: Trilobite ancestral range in the southern hemisphere reconstructed
January 15th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record dates to 521 million years ago in the oceans of the Cambrian Period, when the continents were still inhospitable to most life forms. Few groups of animals adapted as successfully as trilobites, which were arthropods that lived on the […]
Posted in General Tags: reconstructed, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, trilobite, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:The mysteries of a giant prehistoric marine reptile unlocked with the help of Medical scanner
January 13th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Descriptive anatomy of the largest known specimen of Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) including computed tomography and digital reconstruction of a three-dimensional skull Ichthyosaurs were a highly successful group of predatory marine reptiles that appeared in the late Early Triassic and went extinct in the early Late Cretaceous (Fischer et al., […]
