New research from the University of Adelaide has added to the debate about whether dinosaurs were cold-blooded and sluggish or warm-blooded and active. Professor Roger Seymour from the University’s School of Earth & Environmental Sciences has applied the latest theories of human and animal anatomy and physiology to provide insight into the lives of dinosaurs. The results will be published […]
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Holes in fossil bones reveal dinosaur activity
December 4th, 2012 
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No Comments »More Intense North Atlantic Tropical Storms Likely in the Future
December 3rd, 2012 riffin Tropical storms that make their way into the North Atlantic, and possibly strike the East Coast of the United States, likely will become more intense during the rest of this century. That’s the prediction of one University of Iowa researcher and his colleague as published in an early online release in the Journal of Climate, the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev.Russel T Sajeev, Tropical Storms, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Presence of Magnesium oxide: From Earth to super-Earth
December 2nd, 2012 riffin The mantles of Earth and other rocky planets are rich in magnesium and oxygen. Due to its simplicity, the mineral magnesium oxide is a good model for studying the nature of planetary interiors. New work from a team led by Carnegie’s Stewart McWilliams studied how magnesium oxide behaves under the extreme conditions deep within planets […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Mantle, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Solving a magma mystery
December 1st, 2012 riffin Oceanic crust covers two-thirds of the Earth’s solid surface, but scientists still don’t entirely understand the process by which it is made. Analysis of more than 600 samples of oceanic crust by a team including Carnegie’s Frances Jenner reveals a systemic pattern that alters long-held beliefs about how this process works, explaining a crucial step […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: oceanic crust, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »What happens when the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium collides with the older theory of mosaic evolution?
November 30th, 2012 riffin What happens when the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium collides with the older theory of mosaic evolution? Part of the answer comes from a new, wide-ranging study by paleobiologists Melanie J Hopkins at the Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin and Scott Lidgard at the Field Museum in Chicago. Their results are published this week in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Fossil record, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Dinosaurs’ Role in Evolution of Bird Flight
November 26th, 2012 riffin A new study looking at the structure of feathers in bird-like dinosaurs has shed light on one of nature’s most remarkable inventions — how flight might have evolved. Academics at the Universities of Bristol, Yale and Calgary have shown that prehistoric birds had a much more primitive version of the wings we see today, with […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Bird Flight, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Dome-Headed Dinosaurs Did More than Just Butt Heads
November 25th, 2012 riffin We have all seen nature shows with footage of bighorn sheep rearing up and “butting heads” with each other using their heads and enlarged horns. People often assume other animals with horns and comparable head structures have similar behaviors. For a long time this was the case for the dome-headed dinosaurs, the pachycephalosaurids (pack-y-sef-a-lo-sore-ids), who […]
Echinoderms Display Morphological and Behavioural Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Their Trophic Environment
November 24th, 2012 Riffin Adam D. Hughes*, Lars Brunner, Elizabeth J. Cook, Maeve S. Kelly, Ben Wilson Department of Ecology, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Argyll, Scotland The trophic interactions of sea urchins are known to be the agents of phase shifts in benthic marine habitats such as tropical and temperate reefs. In temperate reefs, the grazing activity of sea urchins has […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Echinoderms, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Rhino Skull Preserved in Volcanic Ash
November 23rd, 2012 riffin Less than 2% of Earth’s fossils are preserved in volcanic rock, but researchers have identified a new one: the skull of a rhino that perished in a volcanic eruption 9.2 million years ago. The find is described in a paper published Nov. 21 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Pierre-Olivier Antoine and colleagues from the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Rhino Skull, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments » November 22nd, 2012 Riffin Less than 2% of Earth’s fossils are preserved in volcanic rock, but researchers have identified a new one: the skull of a rhino that perished in a volcanic eruption 9.2 million years ago. The find is described in a paper published Nov. 21 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Pierre-Olivier Antoine and colleagues from the […]
