@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The New Yorker recently described a so-called dinosaur graveyard as holding the remains of an astonishingly diverse trove of dinosaur fossils, including hatchlings; it caused quite a buzz in the media. But even though the site is potentially groundbreaking, the New Yorker article is out of step with […]
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WFS News: Fossil ‘Death Pit’ Preserves Dino Extinction Event … But Where Are the Dinosaurs?
November 28th, 2019 
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No Comments »WFS News: A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia
November 23rd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A high-latitude fauna of mid-Mesozoic mammals from Yakutia, Russia The Early Cretaceous (?Berriasian-Barremian) Teete vertebrate locality in Western Yakutia, East Siberia, Russia, has produced mammal remains that are attributed to three taxa: Eleutherodontidae indet. cf. Sineleutherus sp. (Haramiyida; an upper molariform tooth), Khorotherium yakutensis gen. et sp. nov. (Tegotheriidae, Docodonta; maxillary fragment […]
Posted in General Tags: Mammals, mid-Mesozoic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Ancient four-legged whale that looked like an otter discovered in Peru
November 21st, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A four-legged creature that had a tail and webbed feet similar to those found on otters, has been identified as an ancestor of the whale. Fossils unearthed in Peru have led scientists to conclude that the enormous creatures that traverse the planet’s oceans today are descended from small hoofed ancestors […]
WFS News: fossil hunter finds prehistoric sea creature inside ‘golden snitch’
November 20th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev fossil hunter finds prehistoric sea creature inside ‘golden snitch’ Quidditch ball-shaped fossils are just some of the many discoveries made by amateur archaeologist Aaron Smith. The medical student has found several fossils that date back to the Jurassic period on the beaches of Whitby in Yorkshire. Perhaps […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: First skeletal remains of Phoebodus found in Morocco
November 5th, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev An international team of researchers has found the first skeletal remains of Phoebodus—an ancient shark—in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes the fossil and compares it to a modern shark and fish. Ancient sharks […]
Posted in General Tags: Morocco, Phoebodus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Morphological characteristics of preparator air-scribe marks: Implications for taphonomic research
November 3rd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Morphological characteristics of preparator air-scribe marks: Implications for taphonomic research Taphonomic analyses of bone-surface modifications can provide key insights into past biotic involvement with animal remains, as well as elucidate the context(s) of other biostratinomic (pre-burial) processes, diagenesis, excavation, preparation and storage. Such analyses, however, first require researchers […]
WFS News: Fossil shows trilobites go marching one by one
November 2nd, 2019 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The trilobites go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah … well, at least they did, some 480 million years ago. New fossils from Morocco show lines of trilobites in orderly queues, likely buried by a storm as they trekked from one place to another under the Ordovician seas […]
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