The discovery of Earth’s youngest-ever banded iron formation is changing how scientists understand the evolution of complex life.
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The Earth’s youngest banded iron formation discovered.
July 24th, 2018 
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No Comments »Earth’s ancient biosphere deciphered using prehistoric lake deposits.
July 23rd, 2018 Riffin A sample of ancient oxygen, teased out of a 1.4-billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, provides fresh evidence of what the Earth’s atmosphere and biosphere were like during the interval leading up to the emergence of animal life.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ancient, biosphere, deposits, Earth, evaporative, lake, ontario, Prehistoric, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »Curious armoured dinosaur fossil discovered in Utah!!!!
July 22nd, 2018 Riffin Fossils of a new genus and species of an ankylosaurid dinosaur — Akainacephalus johnsoni — have been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, USA, and are revealing new details about the diversity and evolution of this group of armored dinosaurs. The research indicates that the defining features of Akainacephalus — the spiky bony armor covering the skull and snout — align more closely with Asian ankylosaurids than other North American Late Cretaceous ankylosaurid dinosaurs.
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ankylosaurus, armoured, Dinosaur, fossil, Grand staircase, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Utah, WFS, WorldFossilSociety No Comments »WFS News: Birds of a Feather: Neanderthal Exploitation of Raptors and Corvids
June 29th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Birds of a Feather: Neanderthal Exploitation of Raptors and Corvids Citation: Finlayson C, Brown K, Blasco R, Rosell J, Negro JJ, Bortolotti GR, et al. (2012) Birds of a Feather: Neanderthal Exploitation of Raptors and Corvids. PLoS ONE 7(9): e45927. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045927 Editor: Michael D. Petraglia, University of Oxford, United Kingdom […]
WFS News: Fossils of Pufferfish species unearthed in Germany
June 28th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists in southern Germany have discovered the fossilized remains of a previously unknown pufferfish. A team from the Bamberg Museum of Natural History made the find in a stone quarry in nearby Wattendorf. Matthias Mäuser, the head of the museum, said the pufferfish lived around 150 million years […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossils, Germany, Pufferfish, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Prehistoric frog in 99-million-year-old amber
June 16th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev In the film Jurassic Park, dinosaur DNA is extracted from mosquitoes which had been preserved in amber. Now, scientists have discovered an amber fossil of a juvenile frog in present-day Myanmar dating back about 99 million years.Although the species is extinct, it has now been named Electrorana limoae […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 99-million-year-old, Amber, Prehistoric frog, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: A new therocephalian from Russia
June 13th, 2018 Riffin @ WFS,World Fosssil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new therocephalian (Gorynychus masyutinae gen. et sp. nov.) from the Permian Kotelnich locality, Kirov Region, Russia Kammerer CF, Masyutin V. (2018) A new therocephalian (Gorynychus masyutinae gen. et sp. nov.) from the Permian Kotelnich locality, Kirov Region, Russia. PeerJ 6:e4933https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4933 A new therocephalian taxon (Gorynychus masyutinae gen. et sp. nov.) is described based […]
WFS News: A new insight into the mechanism of biosilicification
June 9th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Formation of Asymmetrical Structured Silica Controlled by a Phase Separation Process and Implication for Biosilicification Citation: Shi J-Y, Yao Q-Z, Li X-M, Zhou G-T, Fu S-Q (2013) Formation of Asymmetrical Structured Silica Controlled by a Phase Separation Process and Implication for Biosilicification. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61164. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0061164 Editor: Vipul Bansal, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: A new insight, biosilicification, mechanism, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Study On prehistoric diets
June 8th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Whenever we think about extinct animals we often imagine them eating their favourite meals, whether it be plants, other animals or a combination of both. But are our ideas about extinct diets grounded within scientific reasoning, or are they actually little more than conjecture and speculation? New research, […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: prehistoric diets, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Study, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: ROM mapping of ligamentous constraints on avian hip mobility: implications for extinct ornithodirans
May 28th, 2018 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev ROM mapping of ligamentous constraints on avian hip mobility: implications for extinct ornithodirans Armita R. Manafzadeh, Kevin Padian Studies of soft tissue effects on joint mobility in extant animals can help to constrain hypotheses about joint mobility in extinct animals. However, joint mobility must be considered in three dimensions […]
