Archive for February, 2022

WFS News: Fruits of Euphorbiaceae from the Late Cretaceous Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India.

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a “hot spot” within the Earth’s crust, triggering one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, which likely […]

WFS News: Ankylosaur was sluggish and deaf?

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Ankylosaurs could grow up to eight meters in body length and represent a group of herbivorous dinosaurs, also called ‘living fortresses’: Their body was cluttered with bony plates and spikes. Some of their representatives, the ankylosaurids sometimes possessed a club tail, while nodosaurids had elongated spikes on […]