Bacterial decay was once viewed as fossilization’s mortal enemy, but new research suggests bacterial biofilms may have actually helped preserve the fossil record’s most vulnerable stuff — animal embryos and soft tissues. A team of 13 scientists led by Indiana University Bloomington biologists Rudolf and Elizabeth Raff found that the invasion of dying embryo cells […]
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Bacterial biofilms as fossil makers
November 21st, 2012 
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No Comments »Fossil Egg Links Dinosaurs to Modern Birds
November 19th, 2012 riffin Researchers have discovered a series of dinosaur eggs with a unique characteristic: they are oval in shape. The discovery supports the theory that birds and non-avian theropods, dinosaurs from the Cretaceous Period, could have a common ancestor. Before her death in December 2010, Nieves López Martínez, palaeontologist of the Complutense University of Madrid, was working […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Fossil Egg, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Why Some Earthquakes Result in Faster Shaking : A Tabletop Fault Model
November 18th, 2012 riffin The more time it takes for an earthquake fault to heal, the faster the shake it will produce when it finally ruptures, according to a new study by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, who conducted their work using a tabletop model of a quake fault. “The high frequency waves of an earthquake — […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Fault Model, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »“Sauroniops pachytholus” DINO NAMED AFTER LORD OF THE RINGS’
November 17th, 2012 riffin Earlier this year a team of palaeontologists came into the possession of what appeared to be a 95 million-year-old skull cap from a previously unknown dinosaur. Further analysis showed that the bone likely belonged to a carcharodontosaurid — an offshoot of the familiarAllosaurus. Given its unique domed skull, the researchers concluded that it was in […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Sauroniops pachytholus, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Penn Dixie (Hamburg Natural History Society ) Fossils
November 16th, 2012 riffin Phacops rana, enrolled specimens collected from the Windom Shale by Dan Cooper
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Penn Dixie Fossils, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Tetradactyl Footprints of an Unknown Affinity Theropod Dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Morocco
November 15th, 2012 riffin In this work the study surface where the footprints were registered was examined carefully. The study surface may or may be not the tracking surface (the surface where the dinosaur stepped) . All the surfaces with true footprints in Iouaridène syncline have been found in the hard layers (red siliceous levels) with mud cracks . The undertracks […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Tetradactyl Footprints, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »2011 Virginia Earthquake Triggered Landslides at Extraordinary Distances
November 14th, 2012 Riffin The 2011 Mineral, Virginia M-5.8 earthquake was felt over an extraordinarily large area. A new study details landslides triggered by the earthquake at distances four times greater and over an area 20 times larger than previously The study, to be published in the December issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America(BSSA), describes physical […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Land slide, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Greenland Rocks Provide Evidence of Earth Formation Process
November 12th, 2012 riffin Rocks dating back 3.4 billion years from south-west Greenland’s Isua mountain range have yielded valuable information about the structure of Earth during its earliest stages of development. In these rocks, which witnessed the first billion years of Earth’s history, a French-Danish team led by researchers from the ‘Magmas and Volcanoes’ Laboratory (CNRS / Université Blaise […]
New Computational Method for Timing the Tree of Life
November 11th, 2012 riffin With its deeply embedded roots, sturdy trunk and dense profusion of branches, the Tree of Life is a structure of nearly unfathomable complexity and beauty. While major strides have been made to establish the evolutionary hierarchy encompassing every living species, the project is still in its infancy. At Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, Sudhir Kumar […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Timing the Tree of Life, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Xenoceratops: Canada’s Newest Horned Dinosaur
November 10th, 2012 Riffin Scientists have named a new species of horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) from Alberta, Canada. Xenoceratops foremostensis (Zee-NO-Sare-ah-tops) was identified from fossils originally collected in 1958. Approximately 20 feet long and weighing more than 2 tons, the newly identified plant-eating dinosaur represents the oldest known large-bodied horned dinosaur from Canada. Research describing the new species is published in the […]
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