@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Radiocarbon dating, invented in the late 1940s and improved ever since to provide more precise measurements, is the standard method for determining the dates of artifacts in archaeology and other disciplines. “If it’s organic and old — up to 50,000 years — you date it by […]
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WFS News: Fine-tuning radiocarbon dating could ‘rewrite’ ancient events
March 25th, 2020 
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No Comments »WFS News: Microbes were living on land as early as 3.22 billion years ago?
March 22nd, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The earliest signs of life on a young Earth, around 3.5 billion years ago, have generally come from the ocean in the form of fossilized microbes within ancient rock. Now, scientists working in the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa—where some of the oldest rocks on Earth are […]
WFS News: A newly discovered fossil bird could be the earliest known ancestor of every chicken on the planet.
March 19th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A newly discovered fossil bird could be the earliest known ancestor of every chicken on the planet. Living just before the asteroid strike that wiped out giant dinosaurs, the unique fossil, from about 67 million years ago, gives a glimpse into the dawn of modern birds. Birds are […]
WFS News:Novel track morphotypes from new tracksites indicate increased Middle Jurassic dinosaur diversity on the Isle of Skye, Scotland
March 12th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Novel track morphotypes from new tracksites indicate increased Middle Jurassic dinosaur diversity on the Isle of Skye, Scotland Citation: dePolo PE, Brusatte SL, Challands TJ, Foffa D, Wilkinson M, Clark NDL, et al. (2020) Novel track morphotypes from new tracksites indicate increased Middle Jurassic dinosaur diversity on the Isle […]
WFS News: Debate on shelf life of DNA vs presence of DNA in fossils
March 8th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev About 75 million years ago, a nest of plant-eating dinosaurs called Hypacrosaurus stebingeri died in what’s now Montana. Their fossils were found in the 1980s, and now an international team of scientists has presented evidence that the old bones contain traces of genetic material. The paper published in National Science […]
Posted in General Tags: fossils, Geology, Riffin T Sajeev, shelf life of DNA, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: The Earth was a “water world” of submerged continents
March 4th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev WFS News: And that could have major implications on the origin of life. “An early Earth without emergent continents may have resembled a ‘water world,’ providing an important environmental constraint on the origin and evolution of life on Earth as well as its possible existence elsewhere,” geologists Benjamin […]
Posted in General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, submerged continents, The Earth, water world, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: P. antiquus,The oldest green seaweed
March 2nd, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A microscopic fossil discovered by Virginia Tech researchers may be key to understanding how modern plants evolved into their current form. At around 1 billion years old, the seaweed microfossil — a type of algae known as Proterocladus antiquus — is the oldest green seaweed known to man. The […]
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