@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Ectoparasitism and infections in the exoskeletons of large fossil cingulates Studies on paleopathological alterations in fossil vertebrates, including damages caused by infections and ectoparasites, are important because they are potential sources of paleoecological information. Analyzing exoskeleton material (isolated osteoderms, carapace and caudal tube fragments) from fossil cingulates of the […]
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WFS News: Ectoparasitism and infections in the exoskeletons of large fossil cingulates
May 31st, 2020 
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No Comments »WFS News: First tapejarid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation
May 28th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev First tapejarid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation (Wealden Group: Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of the United Kingdom An isolated, partial premaxilla from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian) Wessex Formation of Yaverland, Isle of Wight, UK is identified as pterosaurian on account of its overall morphology and thin bone walls. It is […]
Posted in General Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tapejarid pterosaur, Wessex Formation, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 540m-year-old bug tracks discovered
May 28th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The oldest known footprints on Earth, left by an ancient creepy-crawly more than 500 million years ago, have been discovered in China. The tracks were left by a primitive ancestor of modern-day insects or worms, according to scientists. Precisely what the creature looked like is a mystery, though: […]
Posted in General Tags: bug tracks, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev WFS News, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Articulated remains of the extinct shark Ptychodus (Elasmobranchii, Ptychodontidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Spain
May 27th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In 1996, palaeontologists found skeletal remains of a giant shark at the northern coast of Spain, near the city Santander. Here, the coast comprises meter high limestone walls that were deposited during the Cretaceous period, around 85 million years ago, when dinosaurs still roamed the world. Scientists from […]
Posted in General Tags: Ptychodus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: New Dinosaur Elaphrosaur Unearthed in Australia
May 20th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The newly-discovered dinosaur belongs to Elaphrosaurinae, an enigmatic group of gracile ceratosaurian dinosaurs known from the Late Jurassic period of Africa and Asia, and the early Late Cretaceous period of Argentina. “Elaphrosaurs were strange looking dinosaurs — they ran low to the ground on two legs, with a slender […]
Posted in General Tags: elaphrosaurine, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Cassowary gloss and a novel form of structural color in birds
May 17th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Cassowaries are big flightless birds with blue heads and dinosaur-looking feet; they look like emus that time forgot, and they’re objectively terrifying. They’re also, along with their ostrich and kiwi cousins, part of the bird family that split off from chickens, ducks, and songbirds 100 million years ago. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Cassowary, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Skeleton of a Cretaceous mammal from Madagascar reflects long-term insularity
May 8th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In evolutionary terms, islands are the stuff of weirdness. It is on islands where animals evolve in isolation, often for millions of years, with different food sources, competitors, predators, and parasites…indeed, different everything compared to mainland species. As a result, they develop into different shapes and sizes and […]
Posted in General Tags: Cretaceous mammal, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: 200-million-year-old ‘squid’ attack revealed
May 7th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known example of a squid-like creature attacking its prey, in a fossil dating back almost 200 million years. The fossil was found on the Jurassic coast of southern England in the 19th century and is currently housed within the collections of the […]
