A new analysis is shedding light on Earth’s first macroscopic animals: the 570-million-year-old, enigmatic Ediacara biota. Ediacaran fossils have a slightly bizarre appearance not shared by any modern animal groups. For decades, researchers believed these enigmatic fossils were ecologically simple. However, borrowing a method from modern ecology — fitting species to relative abundance distributions — […]
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Earth’s oldest animals formed complex communities
September 19th, 2018 
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No Comments »Ancient bird bones redate human activity in Madagascar by 6,000 years
September 17th, 2018 Riffin Analysis of bones, from what was once the world’s largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought — according to a study published today, 12 September 2018, in the journal Science Advances. A team of scientists led by international conservation charity ZSL […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 6000, activity, Ancient, Bird, Bones, human, island, madagascar, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tropical, WFS, WorldFossilSociety, years No Comments »Geologists reveal ancient connection between England and France
September 15th, 2018 Riffin The British mainland was formed from the collision of not two, but three ancient continental land masses, according to new research. Scientists have for centuries believed that England, Wales and Scotland were created by the merger of Avalonia and Laurentia more than 400 million years ago. However, geologists based at the University of Plymouth now […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: collition, continental, england, France, geologists, Geology, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tectonics, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Global warming: Worrying lessons from the past
September 11th, 2018 Riffin Fifty-six million years ago, Earth experienced an exceptional episode of global warming. In a very short time on a geological scale, within 10,000 to 20,000 years, the average temperature increased by 5 to 8 degrees, only returning to its original level a few hundred thousand years later. Based on the analysis of sediments from the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Geology, global, heat, lessons, past, reason, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, scale, Spain, time, warming, WFS, WorldFossilSociety, worrying No Comments »Ancient farmers profoundly changed Earth’s climate!!!
September 9th, 2018 Riffin Millennia ago, ancient farmers cleared land to plant wheat and maize, potatoes and squash. They flooded fields to grow rice. They began to raise livestock. And unknowingly, they may have been fundamentally altering the climate of Earth. A study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides new evidence that ancient farming practices led to a […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ancient, climate, Earth, farmers, field, flood, glacier, ox, plow, rice, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Mammal forerunner that reproduced like a reptile sheds light on brain evolution
September 4th, 2018 Riffin Compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, mammals have the biggest brains and produce some of the smallest litters of offspring. A newly described fossil of an extinct mammal relative — and her 38 babies — is among the best evidence that a key development in the evolution of mammals was trading brood power […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: animal, brain, Evolution, forerunner, mammal, offspring, reproduce, reptile, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Rare fossils give researchers insight into evolution of bird-like dinosaur
August 29th, 2018 Riffin An international team of researchers discovered a new species of dinosaur, Xiyunykus pengi, during an expedition to Xinjiang, China. The discovery is the latest stemming from a partnership between the George Washington University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The findings were published today in Current Biology along with the description of a second new […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 'rare', Bird, China, Dinosaur, fossils, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety, xinjang Riffin T Sajeev No Comments »Research into deadly 2016 Italian earthquakes could improve future seismic forecasts
August 25th, 2018 Riffin The timing and size of three deadly earthquakes that struck Italy in 2016 may have been pre-determined, according to new research that could improve future earthquake forecasts. A joint British-Italian team of geologists and seismologists have shown that the clustering of the three quakes might have been caused by the arrangement of a cross-cutting network […]
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August 24th, 2018 Riffin The Earth’s building blocks seem to be built from ‘pretty normal’ ingredients, according to researchers working with the world’s most powerful telescopes. Scientists have measured the compositions of 18 different planetary systems from up to 456 light years away and compared them to ours, and found that many elements are present in similar proportions to those found on Earth. This will have implications for finding Earth-like bodies elsewhere.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: distant, Earth, ingrediants, material, Research, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, stars, telescopes, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »New Antarctic rift data has implications for volcanic evolution
August 23rd, 2018 Riffin New data revealing two tectonic plates fused to form a single Antarctic Plate 15 million years later than originally predicted and this extra motion has major implications for understanding of the tectono-volcanic activity surrounding the Pacific Ocean, from the Alpine mountains in New Zealand to the California geological setting, according to research from Ben-Gurion University […]
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