Archive for June, 2022

WFS News:Scientists Find Fossil Of Prehistoric Bear-Dog

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev. A group of scientists has found a fossilised lower jaw of a giant creature that one roamed the Earth. Named Tartarocyon cazanavei, it lived in what is now France – between 12.8 and 12 million years ago. Also known as the bear-dog, the fossilised body part of the […]

WFS News: New species of gigantic, long necked dinosaurs found

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev. New York: Scientists have discovered a new species of long-necked titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania that lived about 70 to 100 million years ago. The new species named Shingopana songwensis is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods. Its fossil was discovered in the Songwe region of the Great […]

WFS News: Chemical clues reveal dinosaur metabolisms

WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev, Athira For decades, paleontologists have debated whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like modern mammals and birds, or cold-blooded, like modern reptiles. Knowing whether dinosaurs were warm- or cold-blooded could give us hints about how active they were and what their everyday lives were like, but the methods to determine […]