@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Some 92 to 66 million years ago, as the Age of Dinosaurs waned, giant marine lizards called mosasaurs roamed an ocean that covered North America from Utah to Missouri and Texas to the Yukon. The air-breathing predators were streamlined swimmers that devoured almost everything in their path, including […]
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WFS News: Ancient volcanoes once boosted ocean carbon
September 21st, 2020 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study of an ancient period that is considered the closest natural analog to the era of modern human carbon emissions has found that massive volcanism sent great waves of carbon into the oceans over thousands of years — but that nature did not come close to […]
WFS News: New technique to tease ancient DNA from soil
September 17th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of animals and thousands of plants — many of them long extinct — from less than a gram of sediment. The DNA extraction method, outlined in the journal Quarternary […]
WFS News: reptiles persisted in Jurassic Africa even as volcanism ruined their habitat?
September 11th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Karoo igneous rocks represent one of the largest continental flood basalt events (by volume) on Earth, and are not normally associated with fossils remains. However, these Pliensbachian–Toarcian lava flows contain sandstone interbeds that are particularly common in the lower part of the volcanic succession and are occasionally […]
WFS News: Body dimensions of the extinct giant shark Otodus megalodon: a 2D reconstruction
September 10th, 2020 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev To date only the length of the legendary giant shark Megalodon had been estimated. But now, a new study led by the University of Bristol and Swansea University has revealed the size of the rest of its body, including fins that are as large as an adult human. […]
