@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Polypterids are weird and puzzling African fish that have perplexed biologists since they were discovered during Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt in the late 1700s. Often called living fossils, these eel-like misfits have lungs and fleshy pectoral fins, bony plates and thick scales reminiscent of ancient fossil fish, and […]
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WFS News: ‘Living fossil fish’ not as old as we thought
September 5th, 2017 
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No Comments »WFS News: Machine learning predicts laboratory earthquakes
September 4th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev By listening to the acoustic signal emitted by a laboratory-created earthquake, a computer science approach using machine learning can predict the time remaining before the fault fails. “At any given instant, the noise coming from the lab fault zone provides quantitative information on when the fault will slip,” […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: earthquakes, predicts, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »Forensic science techniques help discover new molecular fossils
September 1st, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers in Japan and China believe they have found new molecular fossils of archaea using a method of analysis commonly used in forensic science. According to a system designed by microbiologist Carl Woese, there are three domains of life on Earth — Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryota. To date, […]
WFS News: Construction crew finds rare triceratops fossil
August 30th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,Wold Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Construction crews working on Thornton’s new Public Safety Facility uncovered a rare dinosaur fossil. Crews working at the site at 132nd Avenue and Quebec Street made uncovered what appeared to be a triceratops skull and skeleton on Friday. Scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science went to the […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, Triceratops, WFS, WFS NEWS, Wold Fossil Society No Comments »Lagenanectes richterae: Ancient sea reptile found in Germany
August 29th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A previously unrecognized 132 million-year-old fossilized sea monster from northern Germany has been identified by an international team of researchers. Findings published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The bizarre sea creature was a plesiosaur, an extinct long-necked aquatic reptile resembling the popular image of the Loch Ness […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Ancient, Germany, Lagenanectes richterae, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, sea reptile, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Shingopana songwensis: A new species of titanosaurian dinosaur
August 27th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian dinosaur. The research is reported in a paper published this week in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The new species is a member of the gigantic, long-necked sauropods. Its fossil remains […]
WFS News: New Suggestions on Andean Plateau
August 25th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Seismologists investigating how Earth forms new continental crust have compiled more than 20 years of seismic data from a wide swath of South America’s Andean Plateau and determined that processes there have produced far more continental rock than previously believed. “When crust from an oceanic tectonic plate plunges […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Andean Plateau, New Suggestions, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Tropidogyne pentaptera,100-million-year-old fossilized flower
August 22nd, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A Triceratops or Tyrannosaurus rex bulling its way through a pine forest likely dislodged flowers that 100 million years later have been identified in their fossilized form as a new species of tree. George Poinar Jr., professor emeritus in Oregon State University’s College of Science, said it’s the […]
WFS News: New plate adds plot twist to ancient tectonic tale
August 20th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A microplate discovered off the west coast of Ecuador adds another piece to Earth’s tectonic puzzle, according to Rice University scientists. Researchers led by Rice geophysicist Richard Gordon discovered the microplate, which they have named “Malpelo,” while analyzing the junction of three other plates in the eastern Pacific […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: New plate, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tectonic, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Unique imaging of a dinosaur’s skull tells evolutionary tale
August 19th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Researchers using Los Alamos’ unique neutron-imaging and high-energy X-ray capabilities have exposed the inner structures of the fossil skull of a 74-million-year-old tyrannosauroid dinosaur nicknamed the Bisti Beast in the highest-resolution scan of tyrannosaur skull ever done. The results add a new piece to the puzzle of how […]
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