@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossilized fish captured mid-swim offer a rare glimpse into extinct animal behavior — and suggest that swimming in schools developed at least 50 million years ago. A limestone shale slab from the Eocene Epoch reveals that extinct, thimble-sized fish called Erismatopterus levatus may have coordinated their motion similar to how fish in […]
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WFS News: A School of Fish, Captured in a Fossil
May 31st, 2019 
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No Comments »WFS News: True colors of dinosaurs and other creatures from Fossils.
May 26th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev What color was T. Rex? What about triceratops or glyptodon? Until recently, the palette of prehistory was the sole provenance of daydreams, CGI artists or kids with crayons. Advances in imaging technology are bringing us closer to real answers. Over the past decade, we’ve learned that Sinosauropteryx’s tail was striped, and […]
WFS News: Amber imitation?
May 17th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Prehistoric Iberians created “imitation amber” by repeatedly coating bead cores with tree resins, according to a study published May 1, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Carlos Odriozola from Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, and colleagues. Many studies have confirmed the ornamental and symbolic importance of amber to European […]
Posted in General Tags: Amber, imitation, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Two-legged dinosaurs may have begun to flap their wings as a passive effect of running along the ground
May 12th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Identification of avian flapping motion from non-volant winged dinosaurs based on modal effective mass analysis Before they evolved the ability to fly, two-legged dinosaurs may have begun to flap their wings as a passive effect of running along the ground, according to new research by Jing-Shan Zhao of […]
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