@ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Bad news, Jurassic Park fans — the odds of scientists cloning a dinosaur from ancient DNA are pretty much zero. That’s because DNA breaks down over time and isn’t stable enough to stay intact for millions of years. And while proteins, the molecules in all living things […]
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WFS News: The largest recorded dinosaur foot ever recorded came from a brachiosaur
@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Measuring almost a metre wide, the largest recorded dinosaur foot ever recorded came from a brachiosaur, palaeontologists have revealed. One of the biggest creatures ever to walk the earth, The 150 million-year-old fossil was discovered in Wyoming, in 1998. But a new study has confirmed the species – a type of sauropod – roamed […]
WFS News:Fossil nuts from ancient Gondwanan beech tree challenge plant evolution
@WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Yet researchers reporting today in the journal Science say fossils of a beech tree found in southern Argentina are from a genus which these days grows in the wet forests of South-East Asia and New Guinea — thousands of kilometres north of freezing Patagonia. They say the 52-million-year-old fossils, […]