Archive for October, 2023

WFS News: Historical RNA expression profiles from the extinct Tasmanian tiger.

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study shows the isolation and sequencing of more than a century-old RNA molecules from a Tasmanian tiger specimen preserved at room temperature in a museum collection. This resulted in the reconstruction of skin and skeletal muscle transcriptomes from an extinct species for the first time. The […]

WFS News:Plate tectonic cross-roads: Reconstructing the Panthalassa-Neotethys Junction Region from Philippine Sea Plate and Australasian oceans and orogens.

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Utrecht University geologist Suzanna van de Lagemaat has reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. Her colleagues in Utrecht had predicted its existence over 10 years ago based on fragments of old tectonic plates […]

WFS News:125-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers Reveal Traces of Ancient Proteins

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered X-ray evidence of proteins in fossil feathers that sheds new light on feather evolution. Previous studies suggested that ancient feathers had a different composition to the feathers of birds today. The new research, however, reveals […]