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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New Antarctic rift data has implications for volcanic evolution
August 23rd, 2018 
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No Comments »Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth’s oldest rocks
August 22nd, 2018 Riffin Scientists have found that 4.02-billion-year-old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada — the oldest rock formation known on Earth — probably formed at high temperatures and at a surprisingly shallow depth of the planet’s nascent crust. The high temperatures needed to melt the shallow crust were likely caused by a meteorite bombardment around […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: bombardment, Earth, felsic, meteorite, Riffin T Sajeev, Rocks, Russel T Sajeev, silica, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »99-million-year-old beetle trapped in amber served as pollinator to evergreen cycads
August 19th, 2018 Riffin Flowering plants are well known for their special relationship to the insects and other animals that serve as their pollinators. But, before the rise of angiosperms, another group of unusual evergreen gymnosperms, known as cycads, may have been the first insect-pollinated plants. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on August 16 have uncovered […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Amber, beetle, evergreen, flowering, pollinator, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Prehistoric peopling in southeast Asia: Genomics of Jomon and other ancient skeletons
August 12th, 2018 Riffin Uncovering the expansion processes of human habitats in the past is of great importance for understanding the origins and establishment of present-day populations and the acquisition of genetic characteristics of individuals as well as for investigating mechanisms of resistance against diseases and pathogens. Previous genetic/genomic studies aimed to uncover the expansion processes using present-day human […]
WFS News: Nano-Scale Spheroids and Fossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in China
August 6th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Exceptionally preserved nano-scale spheroids derived from microbial processes and nano-scale fossils have been discovered from the black shales of the Jijiawan section of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in the Yangtze Gorge area of Hubei Province, southern China. The numerous soccer ball-like spheroids are pyritized. Their morphology and abundant […]
Scientists solve the mystery behind the origin of skeletons!!!
August 2nd, 2018 Riffin Scientists have used powerful X-rays to peer inside the skeletons of some of our oldest vertebrate relatives, solving a 160-year-old mystery about the origin of our skeletons.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: mystery, Origin, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Scientists, skeletons, vertibra, vertibrates, WFS, WorldFossilSociety, x-rays No Comments »Sound waves reveal enormous diamond cache deep in Earth’s interior
August 1st, 2018 Riffin Sound waves reveal a surprisingly large diamond cache deep in Earth’s interior, researchers report.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: diamond, Earth, interior, Mantle, minerals, olivine, Riffin T Sajeev, Rocks, Russel T Sajeev, sound, waves, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Glaciers in East Antarctica also ‘imperiled’ by climate change
July 30th, 2018 Riffin Source:University of California – Irvine A team of scientists from the University of California, Irvine has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica’s Totten and Moscow University glaciers, which, if they fully collapsed, could add 5 meters (16.4 feet) to the global sea level. In a paper published this week in the American […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Antarctica, climate change, glaciers, imperiled, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Yellowstone super-volcano has a different history than previously thought
July 28th, 2018 Riffin The long-dormant Yellowstone super-volcano in the American West has a different history than previously thought, according to a new study by a Virginia Tech geoscientist. Scientists have long thought that Yellowstone Caldera, part of the Rocky Mountains and located mostly in Wyoming, is powered by heat from the Earth’s core, similar to most volcanoes such […]
Paleontologists discover largest dinosaur foot ever
July 25th, 2018 Riffin The dinosaur foot known as ‘Bigfoot,’ described in a new scientific paper recently published in the open-access journal PeerJ — the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences, was excavated in 1998 by an expedition from the University of Kansas, with Anthony Maltese, lead author of the study, as member of the crew. After detailed preparation and study, Maltese and his international team of researchers identified it as belonging to an animal very closely related to Brachiosaurus.
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