@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new analysis suggests that much of the carbon released from volcanic arcs, chains of volcanoes that arise along the tectonic plates of a subduction zone, comes from remobilizing limestone reservoirs in the Earth’s crust. Previous research suggested carbon was sourced from the mantle as a result of […]
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WFS News: A new species of Tritylodontid found in Japan
August 13th, 2017 
Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Teeth can reveal a lot, such as how the earliest mammals lived with their neighbors. Researchers have uncovered dozens of fossilized teeth in Kuwajima, Japan and identified this as a new species of tritylodontid, an animal family that links the evolution of mammals from reptiles. This finding suggests […]
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No Comments »The birth and death of a tectonic plate
August 11th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Several hundred miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, a small tectonic plate called the Juan de Fuca is slowly sliding under the North American continent. This subduction has created a collision zone with the potential to generate huge earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis, which happen when faulted rock abruptly […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: plate, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, tectonic, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Maiopatagium furculiferum,First winged mammals from the Jurassic period?
August 10th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Two 160 million-year-old mammal fossils discovered in China show that the forerunners of mammals in the Jurassic Period evolved to glide and live in trees. With long limbs, long hand and foot fingers, and wing-like membranes for tree-to-tree gliding, Maiopatagium furculiferum and Vilevolodon diplomylos are the oldest known […]
WFS News: Well-preserved 110 MYO dinosaur found in Canada
August 6th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society ,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev AN EXTRAORDINARILY well-preserved 110-million-year-old dinosaur found in a mine pit in Canada now has a name and evidence of a troubled past, researchers said Thursday. With fossilized skin and scales, the dragon-like creature is actually a new kind of nodosaur, coined Borealopelta markmitchelli, after the museum […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: 110 MYO, Canada, Dinosaur, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Montsechia vidalii ,First Flower on Earth?
August 3rd, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Three was the magic number for the very first flowering plant. The largest study into their early evolution has concluded that its flowers probably had petal-like tepals and pollen-bearing stamens arranged in layered whorls of three. It bore similarities with magnolias, buttercups and laurels – but was […]
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August 1st, 2017 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A study by a researcher in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences offers new clues to what may have triggered the world’s most catastrophic extinction, nearly 252 million years ago. James Muirhead, a research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences, is the co-author of an […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: mass extinction, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, sills, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Boy trips, falls and discovers million-year-old Ice Age fossil
July 20th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev,Fossil Researchers have their hands on a rare fossil from the Pleistocene era thanks to a 10-year-old’s clumsiness.Jude Sparks said he literally fell on the 1.2-million-year-old skull of a stegomastodon — a massive prehistoric creature with tusks like an elephant — while on a hike with his parents […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil, ice age, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Fossil site shows impact of early Jurassic’s low oxygen oceans
July 16th, 2017 Riffin @ WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Using a combination of fossils and chemical markers, scientists have tracked how a period of globally low ocean-oxygen turned an Early Jurassic marine ecosystem into a stressed community inhabited by only a few species. The research was led by Rowan Martindale, an assistant professor at The University […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS Facts : The Pleistocene Epoch,Last Ice Age
July 10th, 2017 Riffin @WFS,world Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The Pleistocene Epoch is typically defined as the time period that began about 1.8 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago. The most recent Ice Age occurred then, as glaciers covered huge parts of the planet Earth. There have been at least five documented major […]
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