Ants comprise one lineage of the triumvirate of eusocial insects and experienced their early diversification within the Cretaceous. The success of ants is generally attributed to their remarkable social behavior. Recent studies suggest that the early branching lineages of extant ants formed small colonies of either subterranean or epigeic, solitary specialist predators. The vast majority […]
Archive for the ‘Featured Post’ Category
WFS NEWS: Underwater ‘lost city’ found to be geological formation
June 6th, 2016 
Riffin Key: WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The ancient underwater remains of a long lost Greek city were in fact created by a naturally occurring phenomenon — according to joint research from the University of East Anglia (UK) and the University of Athens (Greece). When underwater divers discovered what looked like paved floors, courtyards […]
Posted in Featured Post 
Tags: geological formation, lost city, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, WFS NEWS, world fossil society 
No Comments »WFS NEWS:Radix carbonica (320 MYO stem-cell fossil)
June 4th, 2016 Riffin Key: WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Scientists at Oxford University have discovered the oldest known population of plant root stem cells in a 320-million-year-old fossil. The cells, which gave rise to the roots of an ancient plant, were found in a fossilized root tip held in the Oxford University Herbaria. As well as […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Radix carbonica, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, stem-cell fossil, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »How geodynamo sustains…
June 2nd, 2016 Riffin Earth’s magnetic field shields us from deadly cosmic radiation, and without it, life as we know it could not exist here. The motion of liquid iron in the planet’s outer core, a phenomenon called a “geodynamo,” generates the field. But how it was first created and then sustained throughout Earth’s history has remained a mystery […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: geodynamo, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »WFS News:Searching for Moondust
June 1st, 2016 Riffin NASA needs more moon dust. And not just a few sterile baggies of moon dust. NASA engineers need tons of it – or a suitable simulant. NASA has lots of new plans for lunar gadgets and lunar equipment, given the new plans to return to the Moon. Since we’ve been there before, and we’ve gathered […]
WFS News: Sclerocormus parviceps reveal rapid evolution after mass extinction ?
May 28th, 2016 Riffin Two hundred and fifty million years ago, life on earth was in a tail-spin–climate change, volcanic eruptions, and rising sea levels contributed to a mass extinction that makes the death of the dinosaurs look like child’s play. Marine life got hit hardest–96% of all marine species went extinct. For a long time, scientists believed that […]
WFS NEWS : Impact Crators
May 25th, 2016 Riffin Impact craters reveal one of the most spectacular geologic process known to human beings. During the past 3.5 billion years, it is estimated that more than 80 bodies, larger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, have bombarded Earth. However, tectonic processes, weathering, and burial quickly obscure or destroy […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: Impact Crators, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »Major earthquake threat from the Riasi fault in the Himalayas ?
May 23rd, 2016 Riffin New geologic mapping in the Himalayan mountains of Kashmir between Pakistan and India suggests that the region is ripe for a major earthquake that could endanger the lives of as many as a million people. Scientists have known about the Riasi fault in Indian Kashmir, but it wasn’t thought to be as much as a […]
Spiclypeus shipporum: New horned dinosaur species with ‘spiked shield’
May 19th, 2016 Riffin A chance fossil discovery in Montana a decade ago has led to the identification of an audacious new species of horned dinosaur. The international research team that described the plant-eating dinosaur was led by a scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature. The results are published today in the online science journal PLOS ONE. The […]
WFS news: How the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain became so bendy
May 16th, 2016 Riffin @WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev The physical mechanism causing the unique, sharp bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain has been uncovered in a collaboration between the University of Sydney and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Led by a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney’s School of Geosciences, researchers used the Southern […]
