@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev New research reveals that sulfur minerals that make fossils in the Norwegian archipelago are especially well-suited to radiography. X-ray analysis has led to the categorization of a previously-unidentified marine reptile fossil discovered in Edgeøya, Svalbard. The research was recently published in the journal PLOS ONE. The study, […]
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WFS News: Sulfur minerals that make fossils are especially well-suited to radiography
August 23rd, 2023 
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No Comments »WFS News: New insights into the sea spider fauna (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) of La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône, France (Jurassic, Callovian)
August 18th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their kind. These fossils are very important to understand the evolution of sea spiders. They show that the diversity of sea spiders that still […]
WFS News:Burgessomedusa phasmiformis;Oldest known species of swimming jellyfish
August 7th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) announces the oldest swimming jellyfish in the fossil record with the newly named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis. These findings are announced in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Jellyfish belong to medusozoans, or animals producing medusae, and include today’s box jellies, hydroids, stalked jellyfish […]
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