@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Neogene fossils of Old World vultures (Aegypiinae and Gypaetinae) are known from Africa, Eurasia, and North America. The evolution of Old World Vultures is closely tied to the expansion of grasslands and open woodlands and appearance of large, grazing mammals. While there are no extant Old World vultures […]
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WFS News: Mioneophron longirostris, Fossil vulture found from the Late Miocene of China
August 17th, 2016 
Riffin WFS News: Finding Britain’s last hunter-gatherers utilising bone collagen
August 12th, 2016 Riffin @ WFS ,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T sajeev Finding Britain’s last hunter-gatherers: A new biomolecular approach to ‘unidentifiable’ bone fragments utilising bone collagen doi:10.1016/j.jas.2016.07.014 In the last decade, our knowledge of the transition from foraging, fishing, and hunting to agricultural food production has been transformed through the molecular analysis of human remains. In Britain, […]
WFS News: New light shed on how vertebrates see
August 8th, 2016 Riffin The success of vertebrates is linked to the evolution of a camera-style eye and sophisticated visual system. In the absence of useful data from fossils, scenarios for evolutionary assembly of the vertebrate eye have been based necessarily on evidence from development, molecular genetics and comparative anatomy in living vertebrates. Unfortunately, steps in the transition from […]
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No Comments »An analysis on predatory signatures on Miocene oysters Of Crassostrea Sp.from east coast of southern India
August 4th, 2016 Riffin Riffin T Sajeev* Department of Geology, Periyar University, Salem,INDIA .*riffin@rediffmail.com The eastern coast lines of southern India are rarely used to study its paleontological importance. Living oysters of Crassostrea Sp. are found throughout these coastal margins. Recent reports indicate the existence of a paleo-estuary dated to the mio-pliocene age, along the valleys of the southern […]
WFS News: Earth’s mantle appears to have a driving role in plate tectonics
August 1st, 2016 Riffin Deep down below us is a tug of war moving at less than the speed of growing fingernails. Keeping your balance is not a concern, but how the movement happens has been debated among geologists. New findings from under the Pacific Northwest Coast by University of Oregon and University of Washington scientists now suggest a […]
WFS News : Heterodontosaurus tucki Fossil found in SA finally gives up its secrets
July 28th, 2016 Riffin Johannesburg – A remarkable dinosaur fossil discovery made by a South African palaeontologist in 2005 has finally revealed its secrets.The fossil, the most complete ever found of a species known as Heterodontosaurus tucki, was recently scanned at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France. The Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand […]
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July 24th, 2016 Riffin A new species of megaraptorid dinosaur discovered in Patagonia may help discern the evolutionary origins of the megaraptorid clade, according to a study published July 20, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Rodolfo Coria from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina, and Phillip Currie from the University of Alberta, Canada. […]
WFS News : Aftermath of a mass extinction
July 21st, 2016 Riffin A new study of fossil fishes from Middle Triassic sediments on the shores of Lake Lugano provides new insights into the recovery of biodiversity following the great mass extinction event at the Permo-Triassic boundary 240 million years ago. The largest episode of mass extinction in the history of the Earth, which led to the demise […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: mass extinction, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News: Newfoundland fossil trove named UNESCO World Heritage Site
July 18th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev MISTAKEN POINT, N.L. — A rocky stretch of coastline along the southeastern tip of Newfoundland that holds secrets about the origins of complex life has been declared a world heritage site by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture. Mistaken Point, so-named for its frequent disorienting […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: fossil trove, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, UNESCO, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society, World Heritage Site No Comments »WFS News: The Geological Society of America (GSA) 2016 Annual Meeting
July 14th, 2016 Riffin The Geological Society of America (GSA) 2016 Annual Meeting 25–28 September 2016 Denver, United States This year’s five prestigious Pardee Keynote Symposia will scrutinize: • Subsurface energy systems, which account for 80% of total […]
