@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A newly discovered plant-eating dinosaur may have been a species’ “last gasp” during a period when Earth’s warming climate forced massive changes to global dinosaur populations. The specimen, named Iani smithi after Janus, the two-faced Roman god of change, was an early ornithopod, a group of […]
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WFS News: Newly discovered dinosaur, ‘Iani,’ was face of a changing planet
July 23rd, 2023 
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No Comments »WFS News: Petrodactyle wellnhoferi gen. et sp. nov.: A new and large ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Germany
July 21st, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new 145-million-year-old pterosaur (extinct flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs) was named today by a team of British, American and German researchers. The animal was nicknamed ‘Elvis’ when the fossil was first unearthed in Bavaria, Germany because of the giant pompadour-like bony crest on […]
WFS News: “Achilles Neck” – Fossils Reveal Long-Necked Reptiles Were Decapitated by Predators
July 9th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Fossil evidence reveals that the long necks of the ancient marine reptiles, Tanystropheus, made them vulnerable to predators. The study found bite marks on the necks of the fossils, providing the first direct proof of this long-suspected evolutionary disadvantage despite their survival success over a span […]
Posted in General Tags: Achilles Neck, Athira, fossils, Long-Necked Reptiles, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A new fossil katydid of the genus Arethaea Stål (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with exceptionally preserved internal organs from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado
July 6th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev 50 million years ago in what is now northwestern Colorado, a katydid died, sank to the bottom of a lake and was quickly buried in fine sediments, where it remained until its compressed fossil was recovered in recent years. When researchers examined the fossil under a […]
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