@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found The marine mollusks with coiled shells, one of paleontology’s great icons, flourished in Earth’s oceans for more than 350 million years until they died out during the same chance event that wiped out the […]
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WFS News : Ammonites’ fate sealed by meteor strike that wiped out dinosaurs
June 29th, 2024 
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No Comments »WFS News: Shifts in marine community structures can predict future extinctions
June 26th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A study using foraminifera fossils suggests that shifts in marine community structures can predict future extinctions, highlighting the role of historical data in forecasting climate change impacts on biodiversity. For hundreds of millions of years, single-celled organisms known as foraminifera, which are microscopic and hard-shelled, […]
WFS News,Simpsonigobius, new species of fossil fish
June 17th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich groups of marine and freshwater fish in Europe. Spending most of their lives on the bottom of shallow waterbodies, they make substantial contributions to the functioning of many ecosystems. With the identification of a new genus […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, fossil fish, new species, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Simpsonigobius, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Scientists found a pterosaur with vast wingspan
June 15th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Scientists studying a fossil of a flying reptile that excavated from a gravel pit have found it had a vast wingspan of 3.75m (12ft). The pterosaur was dug out from the floor of a quarry near Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, in June 2022. Scans of its wing […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Pterosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, vast wingspan, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Vasuki Indicus,49 Feet Long – Ancient Giant Snake Discovered in India
June 4th, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev New research published in Scientific Reports suggests that a recently identified ancient snake species, named Vasuki Indicus, may have been among the largest snakes ever. This species, which existed approximately 47 million years ago in Gujarat, India, reached lengths of 11 to 15 meters (36 – 49 feet). Belonging […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ancient Giant Snake, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Vasuki Indicus, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Scientists discover hidden step in evolution of dinosaur feather
June 3rd, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev Palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have discovered that some feathered dinosaurs had scaly skin like reptiles today, thus shedding new light on the evolutionary transition from scales to feathers. The researchers studied a new specimen of the feathered dinosaur Psittacosaurus from the early Cretaceous […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, dinosaur feather, Evolution, Psittacosaurus, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Abelisauroid, a dinosaur with very tiny arms
June 2nd, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A team of paleontologists from Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has identified a new species of abelisauroid dinosaur. They have named it Koleken inakayali. The work is published in the journal Cladistics. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Abelisauroid, Athira, Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tiny arms, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Scientists Discover Potential Origin of the First “Warm-Blooded” Dinosaurs
June 2nd, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A new study led by researchers from UCL and the University of Vigo suggests that the ability to regulate body temperature, a characteristic shared by all modern mammals and birds, may have first developed among certain dinosaurs in the early Jurassic period, approximately 180 million years ago. […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, Origin, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, warm blooded dinosaurs, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Jurassic fossil fish more than 180 million years old found
June 1st, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A fierce-looking fossil fish has been discovered in a new Jurassic dig site in Gloucestershire, having been perfectly preserved for almost 200 million years. The fossil shows pronounced big eyes and teeth with its mouth wide open of a fish which lived in a tropical sea […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, fossil fish, Jurassic, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tyrannosaurus rex had lips over its teeth, research suggests
June 1st, 2024 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev While T rex is often depicted prowling the landscape while sporting a toothy grin, its fearsome teeth may actually have been concealed behind a pair of thin, scaly lips, research suggests. Experts say the perception that theropods were lipless arose because of the huge size […]
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