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WFS News:Scientists Find Fossil Of Prehistoric Bear-Dog

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev. A group of scientists has found a fossilised lower jaw of a giant creature that one roamed the Earth. Named Tartarocyon cazanavei, it lived in what is now France – between 12.8 and 12 million years ago. Also known as the bear-dog, the fossilised body part of the […]

WFS News: New species of gigantic, long necked dinosaurs found

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Athira,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev. New York: Scientists have discovered a new species of long-necked titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania that lived about 70 to 100 million years ago. The new species named Shingopana songwensis is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods. Its fossil was discovered in the Songwe region of the Great […]

WFS News:Large new titanosaurian dinosaur from the Pyrenees

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Conca Dellà Museum (MCD), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) and the NOVA University of Lisbon (UNL) have described the new species of titanosaur dinosaur Abditosaurus kuehnei from the remains excavated at the Orcau-1 […]

WFS News: Fruits of Euphorbiaceae from the Late Cretaceous Deccan Intertrappean Beds of India.

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Just before the closing scenes of the Cretaceous Period, India was a rogue subcontinent on a collision course with Asia. Before the two landmasses merged, however, India rafted over a “hot spot” within the Earth’s crust, triggering one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history, which likely […]

WFS News: A giant millipede 326 million years old found

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists say they have discovered the largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede on a beach in Northumberland, totally by chance. The millipede, known as Arthropleura, is thought to have been more than 2.5m (8ft) long. It would have weighed about 50kg (eight stone). The fossil segment was first […]

WFS News: Molecular and Paleontological Evidence for a Post-Cretaceous Origin of Rodents

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Molecular and Paleontological Evidence for a Post-Cretaceous Origin of Rodents Citation: Wu S, Wu W, Zhang F, Ye J, Ni X, Sun J, et al. (2012) Molecular and Paleontological Evidence for a Post-Cretaceous Origin of Rodents. PLoS ONE 7(10): e46445. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046445 Editor: Alistair Robert Evans, Monash University, Australia The timing […]

WFS News: Shingopana, New species of gigantic, long necked dinosaur

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists have discovered a new species of long-necked titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania that lived about 70 to 100 million years ago. The new species named Shingopana songwensis is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods. Its fossil was discovered in the Songwe region of the Great Rift Valley […]

WFS News: A new basal hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the latest Cretaceous Kita-ama Formation in Japan implies the origin of hadrosaurids

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev An international team of paleontologists has identified a new genus and species of hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaur, Yamatosaurus izanagii, on one of Japan’s southern islands. The fossilized discovery yields new information about hadrosaur migration, suggesting that the herbivors migrated from Asia to North America instead of vice versa. […]

WFS News: How ancient fish may have prepared for life on land?

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The international study of the prehistoric ‘relic’ tetrapods, including salamander and lobe-finned lungfish and coelacanths, adds another perspective to the evolution of other four-legged land animals, including related animals such as frogs and reptiles which live in both terrestrial and aqueous environments. Using micro-CT and MRI scans to […]

WFS News: Baby dinosaurs were ‘little adults’

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Long neck, small head and a live weight of several tons — with this description you could have tracked down the Plateosaurus in Central Europe about 220 million years ago. Paleontologists at the University of Bonn (Germany) have now described for the first time an almost complete skeleton […]