Archive for April, 2020

WFS News: Scientists have reconstructed the skulls of some of the world’s oldest known dinosaur embryos in 3D, using synchrotron techniques.

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of scientists led by the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has been able to reconstruct, in the smallest details, the skulls of some of the world’s oldest known dinosaur embryos in 3D, using powerful and non-destructive synchrotron techniques at the ESRF, the European […]

WFS News: ‘Dineobellator notohesperus’ ,dinosaur with nasty gouge mark on claw

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev About 70 million years ago, a cousin of Velociraptor got in a brawl with a larger predator that left it with a nasty rib injury. But this dinosaur, a feathered hypercarnivore, lived to tell the tale, as its rib showed signs of healing, a new study finds. The newfound species, dubbed Dineobellator […]

WFS News: Iridescent Bones of a Lost Dinosaur Herd Discovered in an Opal Mine

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Gemstones are precious, especially when they come filled with dinosaur bones. Back in the 1980s, a miner unearthed a slew of fossils preserved in opals in an opal mine near Lightning Ridge in Australia. A recent analysis of those opalized fossils revealed that they held the remains of […]

WFS News: Discovery of the oldest bilaterian from the Ediacaran of South Australia

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Discovery of the oldest bilaterian from the Ediacaran of South Australia   A team led by UC Riverside geologists has discovered the first ancestor on the family tree that contains most familiar animals today, including humans. The tiny, wormlike creature, named Ikaria wariootia, is the earliest bilaterian, or organism […]