@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A day is the time for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis, a year is the time for Earth to make one revolution around the Sun — reminders that basic units of time and periods on Earth are intimately linked to our planet’s motion in […]
Archive for August, 2019
WFS News: The oldest parasite DNA ever recorded has been found
August 28th, 2019 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A team of Argentinian scientists from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) made the discovery after studying a coprolite taken from a rock-shelter in the country’s mountainous Catamarca Province, where the remains of now extinct megafauna have previously been recovered in stratigraphic excavations. Radiocarbon dating […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Fossil Anemone Tracks Don’t Fit Evolution
August 26th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Interesting markings were recently found on a rock in Newfoundland. A study concluded that they were trails left by seafloor-dwelling animals around 565 million years ago. But such a find is difficult to reconcile with the evolutionary teaching that muscles, and therefore animal locomotion, did not evolve until […]
WFS News: Ancient DNA from a 2,500-year-old Caribbean fossil places an extinct bird
August 25th, 2019 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have recovered the first genetic data from an extinct bird in the Caribbean, thanks to the remarkably preserved bones of a Creighton’s caracara from a flooded sinkhole on Great Abaco Island. Studies of ancient DNA from tropical birds have faced two formidable obstacles. Organic material quickly degrades […]
WFS News: prehistoric plesiosaur from Antarctica Breaks a Record for Body Size
August 24th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Loch Ness Monsterlook-alike in freezing Antarctica. And just like the legendary Nessie, it wasn’t the runt of the litter. The prehistoric plesiosaur — a four-flippered marine reptile that lived during the dinosaur age — measured a colossal 36 feet (11 meters) […]
Posted in General Tags: plesiosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia
August 22nd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia Citation: Averianov A, Martin T, Lopatin A, Skutschas P, Schellhorn R, Kolosov P, et al. (2018) A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia. PLoS ONE 13(7): e0199983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199983 Editor: Anthony Fiorillo, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, UNITED […]
Posted in General Tags: high-latitude fauna, mid-Mesozoic mammals, News, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society, Yakutia 14 Comments »WFS News: C. waiparensis, A New penguin species fossil from the Paleocene of New Zealand
August 14th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The discovery of Crossvallia waiparensis, a monster penguin from the Paleocene Epoch (between 66 and 56 million years ago), adds to the list of gigantic, but extinct, New Zealand fauna. These include the world’s largest parrot, a giant eagle, giant burrowing bat, the moa and other giant penguins. C. […]
WFS News: PhD student discovers new species of early dinosaur
August 10th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A PhD student of the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, has discovered a new dinosaur species in the University’s vaults, after it has been laying misidentified in a collection for 30 years. The team of scientists, led by PhD Student Kimberley Chapelle, recognised that the dinosaur was […]
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