@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 […]
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WFS News:Plate tectonic cross-roads: Reconstructing the Panthalassa-Neotethys Junction Region from Philippine Sea Plate and Australasian oceans and orogens.
October 17th, 2023 
Riffin WFS News: The oldest three-dimensionally preserved vertebrate neurocranium.
September 24th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A 455-million-year-old fossil fish provides a new perspective on how vertebrates evolved to protect their brains, a study has found. In a paper published in Nature today (Wednesday 20th September), researchers from the University of Birmingham, Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in Leiden, Netherlands; and the Natural History Museum have pieced […]
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No Comments »WFS News: Sulfur minerals that make fossils are especially well-suited to radiography
August 23rd, 2023 Riffin @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, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Athira, radiography, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Sulfur minerals, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Newly discovered dinosaur, ‘Iani,’ was face of a changing planet
June 7th, 2023 Riffin @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 […]
Posted in Featured Post, General Tags: Athira, changing planet, Dinosaur, Iani, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:107-million year-old pterosaur bones found in Australia
May 30th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev 107-million-year-old pterosaur bones, the oldest of their kind, have been confirmed by researchers in Australia, as reported in Historical Biology. The fossils, discovered over three decades ago, belonged to two distinct individuals, one of which was a juvenile — a first for Australia. The findings enhance our […]
WFS News: Stelladens mysteriosus: A Strange New Mosasaurid (Squamata) from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Morocco
May 19th, 2023 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike those of any known reptile. Along with other recent finds from Africa, it suggests that mosasaurs and other marine reptiles were evolving rapidly up until […]
WFS News: Fossil evidence of tylosis formation in Late Devonian plants
April 30th, 2023 Riffin WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Fossil evidence of tylosis,Late Devonian,plants
WFS News: Geobiologists shine new light on Earth’s first known mass extinction event 550 million years ago
November 8th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority of animals present near the end of the Ediacaran Period some 550 million years ago. The […]
WFS News: Palaeontologists found Fossil algae, dating from 541 million years ago
October 2nd, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of algae called Protocodium sinense which predates the origin of land plants and modern animals and provides new insight into the early diversification of the plant kingdom. Discovered at a site in China, this 541-million-year-old fossil is the first and oldest green […]
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August 15th, 2022 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists’ understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form. While most fossils are ‘hard’ tissues, such as bone, shells or teeth, some rare sites around the world had unique conditions which allowed minerals to fossilise soft parts […]
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