Archive for March, 2022

WFS News:Forget mammoths: These researchers are exploring bringing back the extinct Christmas Island rat.

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, mammoths 4,000 years ago, and the Christmas Island Rat 119 years ago. Since becoming a popular concept in the 1990s, de-extinction efforts have focused on grand animals with mythical stature, but in a paper published March 9 in the journal Current Biology, […]

WFS News:Large new titanosaurian dinosaur from the Pyrenees

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Conca Dellà Museum (MCD), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) and the NOVA University of Lisbon (UNL) have described the new species of titanosaur dinosaur Abditosaurus kuehnei from the remains excavated at the Orcau-1 […]